Significado: Greensleeves

n. canción que según se cree fue compuesta en Inglaterra durante el siglo XVI (existe en diferentes versiones con versos líricos variables)

be laughing up your sleeve Idioma

an ace up your sleeve

an important card to play, an important fact to reveal To survive, one needs an ace up one's sleeve - a special talent.

card up one's sleeve

another plan or argument saved for later I thought that the negotiations would be unsuccessful but my boss had another card up his sleeve that we didn't know about.

laugh up your sleeve

laugh secretly at someone, behind your back He tried to please her, unaware she was laughing up her sleeve.

up your sleeve

hidden, ready to use if asked When I write an exam, I like to have a topic up my sleeve.

wear your heart on your sleeve

show your emotions, reveal your true feelings If you wear your heart on your sleeve, he'll know you love him.

wear one's heart on one's sleeve

Idiom(s): wear one's heart on one's sleeve AND have one's heart on one's sleeve

Theme: EMOTION

to display one's feelings openly and habitually, rather than keep them private.
• John always has his heart on his sleeve so that everyone knows how he feels.
• Because she wears her heart on her sleeve, it's easy to hurt her feelings.

roll one's sleeves up

Idiom(s): roll one's sleeves up

Theme: WORK

to get ready to do some work.
• Roll your sleeves up and get busy. This isn't a picnic. This is work!
• Come on, you guys, get busy. Roll up your sleeves and go to work.

laugh up one's sleeve

Idiom(s): laugh up one's sleeve

Theme: LAUGHTER

to laugh secretly; to laugh quietly to oneself. (Informal.)
• Jane looked very serious, but I knew she was laughing up her sleeve.
• I told Sally that her dress was darling, but I was laughing up my sleeve because it was too small.

have sth up one's sleeve

Idiom(s): have sth up one's sleeve

Theme: SOLUTION

to have a secret or surprise plan or solution (to a problem). (Slang. Refers to cheating at cards by having a card hidden in one's sleeve.)
• I've got something up my sleeve, and it should solve all your problems. I'll tell you what it is after I'm elected.
• The manager has something up her sleeve. She'll surprise us with it later.

have an ace up one's sleeve

Idiom(s): have an ace up one's sleeve

Theme: DECEPTION

to have a secret or concealed means of accomplishing something.
• I think that Liz has an ace up her sleeve and will surprise us with success at the last minute.
• I have done all I can do. I have no idea what to do next. I don't have an ace up my sleeve, and I can't work miracles.

be bedlam up (one's) sleeve

To be aggravating to adumbrate that one is bedlam at addition else. It seems like the accepted kids are bedlam up their sleeves every time I airing by. It's so infuriating.Learn more: laugh, sleeve, up

be bedlam up your sleeve

OLD-FASHIONEDIf addition is bedlam up their sleeve, they are secretly amused by something, generally article asinine that addition abroad has done. They charge be bedlam up their sleeves at our stupidity. Note: The angel actuality is of addition aggravating to adumbrate the actuality that they are bedlam by putting their duke or arm in advanced of their mouth. Learn more: laugh, sleeve, up

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have bats in one's belfry have an out have an itchy palm have an eye out for have an eye on have an ax to grind have an ace up one's sleeve have an accident have a whale of a time have a weakness for have a voice in have a vested interest in have a try at