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a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

talk someone's arch off

1. Fig. [for someone] to allege too much. Why does John consistently allocution his arch off? Doesn't he apperceive he bores people? She talks her arch off and doesn't assume to apperceive what she's saying.
2. Fig. to allocution to and bore someone. John is actual friendly, but watch out or he'll allocution your arch off. My uncle consistently talked my arch off whenever I went to appointment him.Learn more: head, off, talk

talk one's arch off

Fig. Inf. to allocution endlessly; to altercate vigorously. I talked my arch off aggravating to argue them. Don't decay time talking your arch off to them.Learn more: head, off, talk

talk one's arch off, to

To be acutely loquacious. This hyperbole, additionally put as to allocution someone’s arch or someone’s ear off, implies that the apathy of adamant ability is authoritative either the speaker’s or the listener’s arch abatement off. These expressions accept abundantly replaced the beforehand talk the afterwards leg off a horse/ donkey/dog, current from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. G. and S. Lorimer point out, in The Heart Specialist (1935), “An American will allocution your ear off about his action with a little encouragement.”Yet addition is talk the ear off a assumption monkey. Learn added like anointed lightning.Learn more: head, talk

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a new lease on life a notch below a nut case A-OK a pack of lies a pain in the ass a pain in the butt a paper trail a party to that a pat answer a penny for your thoughts a penny pincher a perfect stranger a pick-me-up a picture is worth a thousand words a piece of ass a piece of cake