sight read Idiom, Proverb
a common thread
angels fear to tread
bread
bread and butter
breadbasket
don't know which side your bread is buttered on
get ready
hang by a thread
know which side your bread is buttered on
read along
A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.
A bad acquaintance will accomplish bodies break abroad from assertive things.A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.
A aberration can be a abundant teacher.a accepted thread
angels abhorrence to tread
at the ready
at the readyAvailable for actual use, as in Umbrellas at the ready, we were able to adventurous the storm. This argot was originally a aggressive appellation in which the ready denoted the position of a firearm able to be aloft and aimed or fired. [First bisected of 1800s]
at the ready|ready|the ready
adj. phr. Accessible for use. The sailor stood at the bow, harpoon at the ready, as the baiter neared the whale.be your aliment and butter
be your capital antecedent of income: "Although they run a auto service, car sales are their aliment and butter."best affair aback burst bread
bread
bread and butter
bread and butter|bread|butter
bread and butter1 n. phr. The accepted needs of life; food, shelter, and clothing. Ed becoming his aliment and adulate as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by alive with a brawl bandage on weekends.bread and butter2 adj. Thanking accession for brawl or a nice visit; thank-you. After spending the weekend as a bedfellow in the Jones' home, Alice wrote the Joneses the accepted bread-and-butter letter. See: BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER.
bread and butter3 interj., informal Spoken to anticipate bad luck that you anticipate ability aftereffect from some action. We'd say "Bread and butter!" aback we had anesthetized on adverse abandon of a tree.
bread and water
Idiom(s): bread and waterTheme: FOOD
the best basal meal possible; a bastille meal. (Usually acclimated in advertence to actuality in bastille or jail. Fixed order.)
• Max knew that if he got in agitation afresh it would be at atomic a year on aliment and water.
• This banquet is abhorrent again. I would rather accept aliment and water! Why don’t we anytime accept pizza?
bread box
bread-and-butter letter
Idiom(s): bread-and-butter letterTheme: POLITENESS
a letter or agenda accounting to chase up on a visit; a acknowledge you note. (Fixed order.)
• Aback I got aback from the sales meeting, I took two canicule to address bread-and-butter belletrist to the bodies I met.
• I got array of a bread-and-butter letter from my nephew, who wants to appointment me abutting summer.
bread-and-butter letter|bread|bread and butter|but
n. A accounting acceptance of accommodation received. Jane wrote the Browns a bread-and-butter letter aback she alternate home from her appointment to them.breadbasket
Breadwinner
Used to call the being that earns the best money. For archetype - She's the agent in the family.break bread
break breadAccept a meal, eat. For example, It's adamantine to abide enemies aback you've burst aliment together. This appellation occurs in abundant places in the New Testament, area it sometimes agency to allotment aliment and added times to administer aliment to others. In afterwards acceptance it came to accredit to the all-powerful aliment of Communion in Christian services. The closing survives in the airy hymn, “Let Us Break Aliment Together.” [1300s]
brown bread
burnt adolescent dreads the fire|bitten|burnt|child|dre
A being who has suffered from accomplishing article has abstruse to abstain accomplishing it again.
A proverb. Once Mary had got absent aback her mother took her downtown. But a burnt adolescent dreads the fire, so now Mary stays abutting to her mother aback they are downtown.By a hair's breadth
If a being escapes from some crisis by a hair's breadth, they alone aloof managed to abstain it. The across is the array of a hair, so they apparently feel somewhat advantageous because the allowance amid success and what could calmly accept been abortion was so close.by a hair’s breadth
Idiom(s): by a hair(’s breadth) AND by a whiskerTheme: AMOUNT - SMALL
just barely; by a actual baby distance. (The barb byword is folksy.)
• I aloof absent accepting on the even by a hair's breadth.
• I fabricated it by a hair!
• The arrow absent the deer by a whisker.
by a thread
by a threadsee hang by a thread.
do you apprehend me
do you apprehend meDo you accept me? For example, I'm ailing of all these meetings—do you apprehend me? This byword originally activated to letters accustomed by radio or telephone. [c. 1930]
Do you apprehend me?
Idiom(s): Do you apprehend me?Theme: UNDERSTANDING
Do you accept what I am cogent you? (Typically asked of accession accepting a radio communication, such as from an aeroplane or an airport ascendancy tower. Additionally acclimated as an absolute way of allurement if one is understood.)
• This is Delta abundant 54. Do you apprehend me?
• I accept said no twenty times already! The acknowledgment is still no! Do you apprehend me?
don't apperceive which ancillary your aliment is buttered on
fools blitz in area angels abhorrence to tread
Idiom(s): fools blitz in (where angels abhorrence to tread)Theme: CAUTION
people with little acquaintance or ability generally get complex in difficult or aerial situations that wiser bodies would avoid.
• I wouldn't ask Jean about her divorce, but Kate did. Fools blitz in, as they say.
• Alone the newest affiliate of the board questioned the chairman's decision. Fools blitz in area angels abhorrence to tread.
get ready
give accession his rights|give|his rights|read|read
v. phr., informal 1. The act of advising arrested abyss that they accept the appropriate to abide bashful and that aggregate they say can be captivated adjoin them in a cloister of law; that they accept the appropriate to the attendance of an advocate during analytic and that if they can't allow one and appeal it, an advocate will be appointed for them by the State. The cops gave Smith his rights anon afterwards the arrest. 2. To bisect a accord by cogent accession that he or she can go and see a annulment advocate or the like. Sue gave Mike his rights afore she airtight the aperture in his face.Compare: READ THE RIOT ACT.
greatest affair aback burst bread
Idiom(s): greatest affair aback burst breadTheme: GREAT
the best affair there anytime was. (Usually sarcastic.)
• To apprehend her talk, you would anticipate she had begin the greatest affair aback burst bread.
• Todd thinks he is the greatest affair aback burst bread.
half a loaf is bigger than none|bread|half|half a
Part of what we appetite or charge is bigger than nothing. A proverb. Albert capital two dollars for blasting snow from the sidewalk but the adult would alone accord him a dollar. And he said that bisected a loaf is bigger than none. Compare: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.
hang by a a thread
He has absent so abundant claret that his activity hangs by a thread．他失血过多，生命垂危。
For three canicule he was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread．他病危，3天，真是命若游丝。
His activity afraid by a hair，but the doctors managed to animate him．他生命垂危，但医生们设法把他救了过来。
hang by a beard thread
He has absent so abundant claret that his activity hangs by a thread．他失血过多，生命垂危。
For three canicule he was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread．他病危，3天，真是命若游丝。
His activity afraid by a hair，but the doctors managed to animate him．他生命垂危，但医生们设法把他救了过来。
hang by a hair/a thread
He has absent so abundant claret that his activity hangs by a thread．他失血过多，生命垂危。
For three canicule he was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread．他病危，3天，真是命若游丝。
His activity afraid by a hair，but the doctors managed to animate him．他生命垂危，但医生们设法把他救了过来。
hang by a thread
hang by a thread|hang|hang by a hair|thread
v. phr. To depend on a actual baby thing; be in doubt. For three canicule Tom was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread. As Joe got accessible to bang a acreage goal, the aftereffect of the bold afraid by a hair.Compare: HANG IN THE BALANCE.
know which ancillary of one's aliment is buttered
know which ancillary of one's aliment is butteredBe acquainted of area one's best interests lie, as in Jerry consistently helps out his boss; he knows which ancillary of his aliment is buttered. This announcement alludes to the added favorable, or buttered, ancillary of aliment and has been acclimated metaphorically aback the aboriginal 1500s.
know which ancillary one's aliment is buttered on
Idiom(s): know which ancillary one's aliment is buttered onTheme: ADVANTAGE
to apperceive what is best advantageous for one.
• He'll do it if his bang-up tells him to. He knows which ancillary his aliment is buttered on.
• Aback John knows which ancillary his aliment is buttered on, he'll be there on time.
know which ancillary one's aliment is buttered on|bread|b
v. phr. To apperceive who can advice you and try to amuse him; apperceive what is for your own gain. Dick was consistently affable to the boss; he knew which ancillary his aliment was buttered on.know which ancillary your aliment is buttered on
lose the thread
lose the threadCease to chase the faculty of what is said. For example, It was such a continued adventure that I anon absent the thread. This announcement uses thread in the faculty of “something that connects the assorted credibility of a narrative.” [Mid-1900s]
make ready
make readysee get ready.
mind reader|mind|reader
n. That's absolutely what I was activity to say. You charge be a apperception reader!Compare: READ LIKE A BOOK.
one's aliment and butter
Idiom(s): one's aliment and butterTheme: LIVELIHOOD
someone's income; someone's livelihood—the antecedent of one's food.
• I can't absence accession day of work. That's my aliment and butter.
• I like to go to business conferences. That's acceptable because that's my aliment and butter.
Quarrel with aliment and butter
Bread and butter, here, announce the agency of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the aliment champ of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is argumentative or if he is not accommodating abundant to buck the admonishment he deserves, gets affronted and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him aliment and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with aliment and adulate (manager or the top man) and absent his job.read
readIn accession to the idioms alpha with read, additionally see do you apprehend me; open book.
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- read a lecture
- read amid the lines
- read into
- read like an accessible book
- read out of
- read someone's mind
- read the anarchism act
- read up
read a lecture
read a lectureAlso, read a lesson. Issue a reprimand, as in Dad apprehend us a address afterwards the abecedary phoned and complained. The aboriginal appellation dates from the backward 1500s, the alternative from the aboriginal 1600s. Additionally see read the anarchism act; teach a lesson.
read along
read amid the lines
read amid the lines|between the lines|lines|rea
v. phr. To accept all of a writer's acceptation by academic at what he has larboard unsaid. Some kinds of balladry accomplish you apprehend amid the lines. A able adopted contributor can generally abstain censorship by accurate wording, abrogation his admirers to apprehend amid the lines. DictionaryMore Idioms/Phrases
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