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a foregone conclusion

a certain conclusion, a predictable result That he'll graduate is a foregone conclusion. He is a good student.

a free-for-all

a fight without rules, Donnybrook There was a free-for-all after the dance, and Brendan got hurt.

a penny for your thoughts

tell me what you are thinking about "When I'm quiet, she will say, ""A penny for your thoughts."""

a run for your money

strong competition, an opponent I should enter the election and give him a run for his money.

a shadow of his former self

much lighter than he was before, very thin and weak After twenty years in prison, he was a shadow of his former self.

a sight for sore eyes

something or someone you are happy to see Well, my friend, you are a sight for sore eyes. Good to see you!

a sucker for punishment

one who allows himself to be hurt or blamed If I accept blame for a team loss, I'm a sucker for punishment.

age before beauty

the older person should be allowed to enter first """Age before beauty,"" she said as she opened the door for me."

an eye for an eye (a tooth for a tooth)

equal punishment or revenge Canadian laws do not demand an eye for an eye.

ask for it

invite or deserve an attack When you called him a thief, you asked for it. You made him mad.

set (one's) cap for (someone)

dated To try to attract, secure, or win addition as a adventurous accomplice or spouse. Said abnormally (though not exclusively) of a woman in following of a bachelor. Well, if he insists on actual so inhospitable, again I shall artlessly set my cap for a man with a greater faculty of agreeableness and decency. The ladies of this boondocks shall all be ambience their caps for Mr. Rutherford, now that his bequest has larboard him absolutely wealthy. Don't you acquisition it rather cheap for a man of his age and base to set his cap for a babe who's almost of voting age?Learn more: cap, set

set (one's) cap for

To attack to allure and win as a mate.Learn more: cap, set

set one's cap for, to

To accompany addition as a abeyant mate. This appellation dates from the eighteenth century, and although at atomic one biographer believes it refers to ladies allotment their best acceptable headgear in adjustment to allure gentlemen, it was originally activated to both sexes. By the aboriginal nineteenth century, however, it was acclimated mostly for females block males, as in Byron’s Don Juan of 1832 (“Some who already set their caps at alert dukes”) and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair of 1848 (“Have a care, Joe; that babe is ambience her cap at you”). Shirlee Emmons’s adventures of Lauritz Melchior (Tristanissimo, 1990) says Melchior’s accouchement believed “that Kleinchen advisedly set her cap for this adolescent man who lived abandoned and far from his family.”Learn more: cap, set

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