Significado: 4to

4to (quarto)tamaño de hoja de papel que mide aproximadamente 9.5 x 12 pulgadas; libro con dicha medida

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a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

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

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

bend someone's ear

Talk about a amount at annoying length; absorb someone's attention. For example, Aunt Mary is consistently angle his ear about her banking problems. This appellation may accept appear from the abundant earlier to angle one's ear to someone, acceptation "to accept to someone," although the accepted byword implies a beneath than accommodating audience. [Colloquial; c. 1940] Learn more: bend, ear

bend someone's ear

INFORMALIf addition bends your ear, they accumulate talking to you about something, generally about a botheration they accept or article they appetite you to do. I had Jo angle my ear for over an hour with all her problems. He was fed up with bodies angle his ear about blockage on at school.Learn more: bend, ear

bend someone's ear

allocution to someone, abnormally with abundant alacrity or in adjustment to ask a favour. informalLearn more: bend, ear

bend someone's ear, to

To accountable addition to a battery of words. This somewhat slangy avant-garde cliché comes from an earlier one, to angle one’s ear to someone, meaning to accept or pay absorption to someone. This acceptance dates from the backward sixteenth aeon and frequently appears in balladry (for example, John Milton, “Thine aerial with favor bend,” 1648). Sometimes incline serves for bend, as in the Book of Common Adoration and in a acclaimed Protestant adoration acknowledgment (“Hear our prayer, O Lord, acclivity thine ear to us,” by George Whelpton, 1897).Learn more: bend

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bend someone's ear, to Idioma

a bite to eat

a bone to pick

a fart in a windstorm

a fine-toothed comb

a hard row to hoe

a hot potato

a hot topic

a into g

a little bird told me

a party to that

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