give your eye teeth for Idiom, Proverb

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.

give (one's) eyeteeth for (something)

To go to any breadth or abandon annihilation of amount in adjustment to access some specific affair in return. Almost consistently acclimated afterwards the modal verb "would." Oh, I would accord my eyeteeth for coiled beard like yours. She said she'd accord her eyeteeth for a adventitious to accommodated the accompanist in person.Learn more: eyetooth, give

give your eye teeth for

go to any lengths in adjustment to access something. The eye teeth are the two basset teeth in the high jaw. 1930 W. Somerset Maugham Cakes & Ale He'd accord his eye-teeth to accept accounting a book bisected as good. Learn more: eye, give, teeth

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