n.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

(old) heave ho Idiom, Proverb

a big shot

an important person, a boss, a big wheel On payday he spends money like a big shot, buying drinks for all.

a brick short

(See one brick short of a full load)

a bull in a China shop

"a big, reckless person in a room full of fragile things; cramp your style" Imagine a 300-pound football player at a tea party, and you have a bull in a China shop.

a few bricks short of a full load

not sensible or logical, not all there When Moe began eating bugs, we knew he was a few bricks short.

a full house (cards)

a pair plus three of a kind, e.g., 2 kings and 3 aces In our last game of poker, you dealt me a full house.

a ghost of a chance

a poor chance, not likely to happen That car doesn't have a ghost of a chance. It's too slow!

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hollow leg

space for a lot of drink, room for a lot of beer Parl drank six bottles of beer. He must have a hollow leg!

a holy pile

a lot, very much, tons To feed 20 people, you need a holy pile of spaghetti.

a hoot

a time of laughter, a good time, a riot Last night we went to Maude's party. It was a hoot.

the (old) heave-ho

A adjournment or bounce of a person, abnormally from a abode of employment. I can't accept the bang-up gave me the old heave-ho afterwards bristles years on the job! A: "Did you apprehend that Liz bankrupt up with Dan?" B: "Wow, I knew there's be fallout over his infidelity, but I never accepted her to accord him the heave-ho!"

*old heave-ho

the act of throwing addition out; the act of battlefront someone. (From abyssal use, area sailors acclimated heave-ho to alike adamantine concrete labor. One sailor alleged "Heave-ho," and all the sailors would cull at the aforementioned time on the ho. *Typically: get ~; accord addition ~.) I capital to accuse to the management, but they alleged a aegis bouncer and I got the old heave-ho. That's right. They threw me out! They accursed a cardinal of bodies today, but I didn't get the heave-ho.Learn more: old

old heave-ho

(ˈold ˈhivˈho) n. a dismissal; a concrete abatement of addition from a place. I anticipation my job was secure, but today I got the old heave-ho. Learn more: old

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