be (one's) pigeon Idiom, Proverb

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Cat among the pigeons

If something or someone puts, or sets or lets, the cat among the pigeons, they create a disturbance and cause trouble.

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Stool pigeon

(USA) A stool pigeon is a police informer.

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put the cat among the pigeons

cause trouble: "Don't tell her about your promotion - that will really put the cat among the pigeons."

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clay pigeon|clay|pigeon

n., slang, informal 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; an easy target that doesn't move. All he can shoot is a clay pigeon. 2. A person who, like a clay pigeon in target practice, is immobilized or is in a sensitive position and is therefore easily criticized or otherwise victimized. Poor Joe is a clay pigeon. 3. A task easily accomplished like shooting an immobile clay pigeon. The math exam was a clay pigeon.

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pigeonhole

n. 1. Small compartment for internal mail in an office or a department. "You can just put your late exam into my pigeonhole," said Professor Brown to the concerned student. 2. One of the small compartments in a desk or cabinet. He keeps his cufflinks in a pigeonhole in his desk.

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stool pigeon|pigeon|stool

n. A criminal who informs on his associates. The detective was able to solve the crime mainly through information obtained from a stool pigeon.

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clay pigeon

clay pigeon
A person easily duped or taken advantage of, as in You're a clay pigeon for all of those telephone fund-raisers. The term alludes to the clay pigeon of trapshooting, which replaced the use of live birds in this sport in the 1860s. Its transfer to figurative use in the first half of the 1900s probably is explained by the much older slang use of pigeon for “dupe.” Also see fall guy.

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pigeon

pigeon
see clay pigeon; stool pigeon.

be (one's) pigeon

To be one's breadth of ability or responsibility. I can't accept amount reports, but Betty can—that's her pigeon.Learn more: pigeon

be someone's pigeon

BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDIf article is your pigeon, you accept to accord with it. I'm animated this is your pigeon rather than mine. Note: Originally this announcement was `that's not my pidgin'. The chat `pidgin' represents a 17th aeon Chinese accentuation of the chat `business'. The announcement actually meant the aforementioned as `that's not my business'. Learn more: pigeon

be someone's pigeon

be someone's activity or affair. In this phrase, the chat pigeon derives from pidgin , as in pidgin English , the appellation for a grammatically simplified anatomy of a accent acclimated for advice amid bodies not administration a accepted language. Pidgin itself represents a Chinese about-face of the English chat ‘business’: it entered the English accent with the acceptation ‘occupation’ or ‘affair(s)’ in the aboriginal 19th century, arising from the amalgam of English and added languages acclimated at that time amid Europeans and the Chinese for trading purposes.Learn more: pigeon

be somebody’s pigeon

(old-fashioned, British English) be somebody’s albatross or business: Somebody needs to address a address on training for the manager, but it’s not my pigeon. ♢ Gustav will accept to acquaint them first, it’s his pigeon.Learn more: pigeon

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