HWA Idiom, Proverb

electronic superhighway

a computer network, Internet We can find more information on the electronic superhighway.

highway robbery

an extremely high price for something The price that we had to pay for the theater tickets was highway robbery.

throw the baby out with the bathwater

reject all of something because part of it is faulty When they decided to get rid of all of the computers because one was broken it was like throwing the baby out with the bath water. They only needed one new computer.

highways and byways

Idiom(s): highways and byways

Theme: TRAVEL

[all the] roads; the major and minor roads and routes. (Fixed order.)
• I hope I meet you again some day on life's highways and byways.
• The city council voted to plant new trees along all the highways and byways of the town.

dull as dishwater

Idiom(s): (as) dull as dishwater AND (as) dull as ditchwater

Theme: BOREDOM

very uninteresting.
• I'm not surprised that he can't find a partner. He's as dull as dishwater.
• Mr. Black's speech was as dull as ditchwater.

dull as ditchwater

My way or the highway

This idiom is used to say that if people don't do what you say, they will have to leave or quit the project, etc.

highway robbery|highway|robbery

n. phr. 1. A hold-up of or theft from a person committed on an open road or street usually by an armed man. Highway robbery was common in England in Shakespeare's day. 2. An extremely high price or charge; a profiteer's excessive charge. To someone from a small town, the prices of meals and theater tickets in New York often seem to he highway robbery.

throw the baby out with the bath|baby|bath|bathwat

v. phr. To reject all of something because part is faulty. God knows that there are weaknesses in the program, but if they act too hastily they may cause the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater.

dishwater

dishwater
see dull as dishwater.

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