in (one's) (own) back yard Idiom, Proverb

the whole nine yards

including all the work, doing the whole job, the whole ball of wax My goals include a degree, career, marriage, children - the whole nine yards.

boneyard

1. graveyard
2. domino pile to draw from

in one's own backyard

Idiom(s): in one's (own) backyard

Theme: PROXIMITY

[figuratively] very close to one.
• That kind of thing is quite rare. Imagine it happening right in your backyard.
• You always think of something like that happening to someone else. You never expect to find it in your own backyard.

all wool and a yard wide

Idiom(s): all wool and a yard wide

Theme: KINDNESS

genuinely warmhearted and friendly. (Informal and folksy. Refers to woolen cloth that is 100% wool and exactly one yard wide.)
• Old Bob is a true gentleman—all wool and a yard wide.
• The banker, hardly all wool and a yard wide, wouldn't give us a loan.

Graveyard shift

If you have to work very late at night, it is the graveyard shift.

Schoolyard pick

When people take it in turns to choose a member of a team, it is a schoolyard pick.

Whistling past the graveyard

(USA) If someone is whistling past the graveyard, they are trying to remain cheerful in difficult circumstances. ('Whistling past the cemetery' is also used.)

Whole nine yards

The whole nine yards means means everything that is necessary or required for something.

all wool and a yard wide|a yard wide|all|all wool|

adj. phr. Of fine character; especially, very generous and kind-hearted. He's a wonderful brother all wool and a yard wide.

graveyard shift|graveyard|shift

n. phr. The work period lasting from sundown to sunup, when one has to work in the dark or by artificial light. "Why are you always so sleepy in class?" Professor Brown asked Sam. "Because I have to work the graveyard shift beside going to school," Sam answered.

in (one's) (own) aback yard

In or abreast to one's breadth of abode or business. Local farmers accept affiliated calm to beef the government's plan of architecture a alternation of windfarm generators in their aback yard. We don't appetite to accept such a large, animal cairn in our own aback yard.Learn more: back, yard

in one's (own) backyard

Fig. actual abutting to one, area one lives, or area one is. That affectionate of affair is absolutely rare. Imagine it accident appropriate in your backyard. You consistently anticipate of article like that accident to addition else. You never apprehend to acquisition it in your own backyard.Learn more: backyard

in one's own backyard

In one's own domain, in a position actual abutting to one. For example, You didn't apprehend to acquisition a capital organist in your own backyard. [Mid-1900s] Also see close to home. Learn more: backyard, own

in your (own) backˈyard

in or abreast the abode area you alive or work: The association didn’t appetite a new branch in their backyard. ♢ The affair baton is adverse action in his own backyard (= from his own members).The appellation nimby is formed from the aboriginal belletrist of not in my backyard. A nimby is a being who claims to be in favour of a new project, but altar if it is too abreast their home and will afflict them in some way.Learn more: backyard

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