itty Idiom, Proverb

kitty bar the door

play defensively, play only to prevent a goal In the third period we played kitty bar the door and won 4-2.

kitty-corner

the diagonally opposite corner of an intersection The Bay is kitty-corner from the drugstore.

nitty-gritty

(See the nitty-gritty)

shitty

bad behavior, awful, crappy He borrowed your car and took your girl? That's pretty shitty.

the nitty-gritty

very important matters, the crunch The nitty-gritty of an election is the vote itself - the numbers!

tough titty

(See tough luck)

ditty

anything, especially a small trinket, an object, a penis:"Give me that ditty, will you?"

kitty

vagina

kitty cat

vagina

get down to the nitty-gritty

Idiom(s): get down to the nitty-gritty

Theme: DETAILS

to get down to the facts; to get down to cases.(Slang.)
• Stop fooling around. Get down to the nitty-gritty.
• Let's stop wasting time. We have to get down to the nitty-gritty.

feed the kitty

Idiom(s): feed the kitty

Theme: MONEY

to contribute money.
• Please feed the kitty. Make a contribution to help sick children.
• Come on, Bill. Feed the kitty. You can afford a dollar for a good cause.

Cat fur and kitty britches

(USA) When I used to ask my grandma what was for dinner, she would say 'cat fur and kitty britches'. This was her Ozark way of telling me that I would get what she cooked. (Ozark is a region in the center of the United States)

Nitty gritty

If people get down to the nitty gritty, they concentrate on the most important and serious issues.

sweeten the kitty

sweeten the kitty
Also, sweeten the pot or deal. Make something financially more attractive, as in I am unable to give you the new title but I could sweeten the kitty a little by giving you a raise. This idiom comes from card games such as poker, where it means “add money to the pool,” and uses sweeten in the sense of “make more agreeable.” [Slang; c. 1900]

Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty
A person, generally quite ordinary or ineffectual, who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs. For example, He's a Walter Mitty about riding in a rodeo but is actually afraid of horses. This term comes from James Thurber's short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939), describing just such a character.

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