YW Idiom, Proverb

go haywire

break, not work properly, break down They said they fixed the car, but it went haywire again the next day.

haywire

(See go haywire)

something is haywire

something is wrong or broken, go haywire Something is haywire with my back. I can't move.

YWCA

Young Women's Christian Association My friend stayed at the YWCA when she visited New York City last summer.

anywhere

to possess drugs, example:"Are you anywhere?"

collywobbles

a feeling of nervousness or pain in the stomach

couldn't stop a pig in an alleyway

having bow legs. Occasionally heard as couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel, - a Midlands/Northern variation whereby ginnel is dialect for alleyway

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.

here, there, and everywhere

Idiom(s): here, there, and everywhere

Theme: EVERYWHERE

everywhere; at all points.
• Fred searched here, there, and everywhere, frantically looking for the lost check.
• She did not rest until she had been here, there, and everywhere, shopping for just the right gift.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

It's not good to do too many things at the same time.

Jaywalk

Crossing the street (from the middle) without using the crosswalk.

anywhere near|anything|anything like|anywhere

adv. Nearly.

Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences, often in the negative forms "nothing like" or "nowhere near". It's not anything like as hot today as it was yesterday. Do you think that gold ring is worth anywhere near a hundred dollars? Today's game was nowherenear as exciting as yesterday's game. Studying that lesson should take nothing like two hours.

go haywire|go|haywire

v. phr., informal Mixed-up, out of order, not in regular working condition. My electric typewriter has gone all haywire; I have to call the repair man.

worrywart

n. phr. A person who always worries. "Stop being such a worrywart," Bob said to Alice, who was constantly weighing herself on the bathroom scale.

everywhere

everywhere
see all over; here, there, and everywhere.