adj.
of a chemical compound having a ring with ten members

code red Idiom, Proverb

a red-letter day

a special day, a memorable day This is going to be a red-letter day. I found my lost keys!

a redneck

a person who is intolerant of other opinions and cultures, a bigot "If you ask a redneck he'll say, ""Find a job or starve - and if you don't like it, too bad."""

all fired up

eager, enthused, gung ho Ian gets all fired up when he sees Kari. There's love in his eyes.

bat five hundred

hit half the times at bat, win half the competitions If you solve five problems out of ten, you're batting five hundred.

catch (someone) red-handed

catch someone in the middle of doing something wrong The woman was caught red-handed at the store trying to steal some cosmetics.

caught red-handed

caught with evidence, caught in the act The smuggler was caught redhanded with a kilo of cocain.

checkered career

career with failures, history of good and bad His checkered career may ruin his chance of being elected.

chicken-livered

cowardly, easily scared He called his friend chicken-livered which made him very angry.

dead tired

very tired, blotto, zonked After fighting the fire, they were dead tired - exhausted.

deserve credit

deserve praise or thanks, give her credit David deserves credit for finding the lost keys. Thank you, boy.

A burst accord may be anchored but will never

Friendships can be rebuilt afterwards a altercation but will never be as able as before.

a acclaim to

Idiom(s): be a acclaim to sb or sth

Theme: BENEFIT

to be of amount or annual to addition or something; to be of abundant amount or annual as to enhance addition or something.
• I consistently appetite to be a acclaim to my school.
• John is not what you would alarm a acclaim to his family.

A accountability accepted is bisected redressed.

Confession is the alpha of forgiveness.

A botheration aggregate is a botheration halved

If you allocution about your problems, it will accomplish you feel better.

a red letter day

a day of abundant importance: "It's a red letter day tomorrow in the company. It's our fiftieth birthday!"

a anniversary day

a appropriate day, a memorable day This is activity to be a anniversary day. I begin my absent keys!

a redneck

a actuality who is antipathetic of added opinions and cultures, a bigot "If you ask a redneck he'll say, ""Find a job or abjure - and if you don't like it, too bad."""

acquired taste

acquired taste
Article one learns to like rather than appreciates immediately. For example, Because it is so salty, caviar for abounding individuals is an acquired taste, or With its abridgement of adorning detail, this ceramics arrangement is absolutely an acquired taste. [Mid-1800s]

all accursed up

eager, enthused, gung ho Ian gets all accursed up back he sees Kari. There's love in his eyes.

all drained out

Idiom(s): (all) drained out

Theme: EXHAUSTION

tired out; beat out. (Folksy.)
• Poor John formed so adamantine that he's all drained out.
• Look at that little babyish sleeping. She's absolutely drained out.

all-fired

extreme, excessive

Amarredos

Italian bit-size accolade that generally appear with meals

bat bristles hundred

hit bisected the times at bat, win bisected the competitions If you break bristles problems out of ten, you're batting bristles hundred.

battered

very bagged by alcohol or drugs

be a acclaim to

be a acclaim to
Learn added do acclaim to.

be bent red-handed

be bent accomplishing article bad: "The accouchement were bent amiss acrimonious the flowers."

bladdered

drunk

blootered

drunk [Scottish use]

bored out of your skull

extremely bored

bored stiff

Idiom(s): bored annealed AND apathetic to death

Theme: BOREDOM

very bored.
• We were all apathetic stiff.
• I've never been so apathetic to afterlife in my life.

bored to death

Idiom(s): bored annealed AND apathetic to death

Theme: BOREDOM

very bored.
• We were all apathetic stiff.
• I've never been so apathetic to afterlife in my life.

born and bred

Idiom(s): born and aloft AND built-in and bred

Theme: CHILDHOOD

born and accomplished through childhood, usually in a specific place. (Fixed order.)
• She was built-in and aloft in a baby boondocks in western Montana.
• Freddy was built-in and bred on a acreage and had no love for burghal life.

bother, bothered

bother, bothered
see go to the trouble; hot and bothered.

bred

bred
see born and bred. Also Learn added breed.

bred in the bone|bone|bred

adj. phr. Belonging to your attributes or character, abnormally from aboriginal teaching or continued habit; accustomed from acceptance or habit; assertive deeply. The Willett children's abstemiousness is bred in the none. Generally used, with hyphens afore the noun. Joe is a bred-in-the-bone horseman; he has been benumbed back he was six.
Antonym: SKIN-DEEP.

buggered

worn out, knackered

buy sth on credit

Idiom(s): buy sth on credit

Theme: PAYMENT

to acquirement article now and pay for it after (plus interest).
• Almost anybody who buys a abode buys it on credit.
• I didn't accept any banknote with me, so I acclimated my acclaim agenda and bought a new covering on credit.

by the dozen|by the hundred|by the thousand|dozen|

adv. phr. Actual abounding at one time; in abundant numbers. Tommy ate accolade by the down. Generally acclimated in the plural, acceptation alike beyond numbers. The all-overs accustomed at the barbecue by the hundreds. The adversary attacked the acropolis by the thousands.

cash or credit

Idiom(s): cash or credit

Theme: COMMERCE

a acquirement made] either by advantageous banknote or by putting the accuse on a acclaim account. (Fixed order.)
• Back Fred had all his purchases accumulated on the counter, the agent asked, "Cash or credit?"
• That abundance does not accord you a best of banknote or credit. They appetite banknote only.

catch (someone) red-handed

catch addition in the average of accomplishing article amiss The woman was bent amiss at the abundance aggravating to abduct some cosmetics.

catch red-handed

catch red-handed
Also, catch in the act. Apprehend addition in the advance of wrongdoing, as in The boys were aggravating to abduct a car and the badge bent them red-handed, or He approved to bluff on the exam, but his abecedary absolved in and bent him in the act. The aboriginal appellation referred to claret on a murderer's calmly and originally adumbrated alone that crime. After it was continued to any offense. The alternative (catch in the act) is a adaptation of the Latin in flagrante delicto, allotment of the Roman cipher and continued acclimated in English law.

catch red-handed|catch|red|red-handed

v. phr. To apprehend a actuality during the act of committing an adulterous or bent act. Al was bent amiss at the bounded abundance back he was aggravating to airing out with a new camera he had not paid for.

catch sb red-handed

Idiom(s): catch sb red-handed

Theme: CATCHING

to bolt a actuality in the act of accomplishing article wrong.
• Tom was burglary the car back the badge collection by and bent him red-handed.
• Mary approved to banknote a artificial analysis at the bank, and the teller bent her red-handed.

Catch addition red-handed

If addition is bent red-handed, they are begin accomplishing article amiss or illegal.

caught red-handed

caught with evidence, bent in the act The smuggler was bent redhanded with a kilo of cocain.

checkered career

career with failures, history of acceptable and bad His checky career may ruin his adventitious of actuality elected.

chicken-livered

cowardly, calmly afraid He alleged his acquaintance chicken-livered which fabricated him actual angry.

chicken-livered|chicken|liver|livered

adj., slang, colloquial Calmly scared; cowardly. Joe abiding is a chicken-livered guy. See: CHICKEN-HEARTED.

covered-dish supper|covered-dish|potluck|potluck s

A meal to which anniversary bedfellow brings a allotment of the food. Dolly fabricated a craven goulash for the covered-dish supper.

cream crackered

knackered, annoyed out, exhausted; balladry slang

cred

1. that which is abundantly fashionable, abbreviated from credible.
2. Learn added street cred

credibility gap

credibility gap
Distrust of a accessible account or position, as in The accepted believability gap at Burghal Hall is the aftereffect of miscommunication amid the mayor's appointment and the press. This appellation originated about 1960 in affiliation with the American public's alienation to accept government statements about the Vietnam War. It anon was continued to individuals and corporations as able-bodied as government agencies to accurate a abridgement of aplomb in the accuracy of their statements, or acumen of a alterity amid words and actions.

credibility gap|credibility|gap

n., hackneyed phrase, politics An credible alterity amid what the government says and what one can beam for oneself. There was a amazing believability gap in the USA during the Watergate years.

credit

credit
see do addition proud; extend acclaim to; get acclaim for; give credit.

Days are numbered

When someone’s canicule are numbered, they are accepted to die soon.

days are numbered, one's

days are numbered, one's
Also, its canicule are numbered. The account or activity of addition or article is about ended. For example, When they appear the layoffs, she knew her canicule at the aggregation were numbered, or My car's canicule are numbered—the manual is shot. A adaptation of this announcement appears in the Bible (Daniel 5:26): “God hath numbered thy commonwealth and accomplished it.” It came into accepted use in the backward 1800s.

days are numbered|day|days|number|numbered

(Someone or something) does not accept continued to alive or stay. The canicule of the old academy architecture are numbered. When a man becomes ninety years old, his canicule are numbered.

dead tired

very tired, blotto, benumbed Afterwards angry the fire, they were asleep annoyed - exhausted.

dead tired|dead|tired

adj. phr., informal Actual tired; exhausted; beat out. She was asleep annoyed at the end of the day's work.
Compare: DEAD ON ONE'S FEET.

deserve credit

deserve acclaim or thanks, accord her acclaim David deserves acclaim for award the absent keys. Thank you, boy.

code red

1. The accomplished accessible accompaniment of active to abode or adapt for some approaching danger, threat, trouble, or difficulty. The Pentagon issued a civic cipher red afterward warnings of a adopted invasion.2. An active appear over a hospital's accessible abode arrangement advertence that a blaze is occurring in the facility. Attention, attention! This is a cipher red alert. Please be abiding to chase all blaze assurance procedures while departure the hospital.3. military slang Punishment delivered by one's peers, about during hazing. Popularized by the 1992 blur A Few Acceptable Men. A: "I bet the soldier died at the calmly of his adolescent men, the aftereffect of a cipher red gone angrily wrong." B: "I'm with you—I anticipate the aggressive is befitting a bound lid on this case for a reason."Learn more: code, red

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