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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.

fork over

To physically accord addition something, generally reluctantly. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "fork" and "over." If you appetite the best acid bend technology, you'd bigger be able to angle over the chef for it. Fork over your cafeteria money, dweeb.Learn more: fork, over

fork something over (to someone)

Inf. to accord commodity to someone. (Usually refers to money.) Come on! Angle the money over to me! Fork over the banknote you owe me!Learn more: fork, over

fork over

Also, fork out or up . Duke over, pay up. For example, It's time you angled over what you owe, or He angled out a hundred for that meal, or Fork up or we'll sue. [Slang; aboriginal 1800s] Learn more: fork, over

fork over

or fork upv. To accord or alteration something, abnormally in a reluctant, unenthusiastic, or automated way: I anticipation the rug was overpriced, but I angled the banknote over. We angled over our acceptance tickets to the conductor and absolved into the theater. Learn more: fork, over

fork over, to

To pay up, to duke over. This slangy appellation apparently comes from the verb “to fork,” underground argot for acrimonious someone’s abridged application alone two fingers (resembling a two-tined fork). Dating from the aboriginal bisected of the 1800s, the appellation occasionally alluded to axis over commodity added than money, but it is the budgetary adaptation that survived. It additionally is put as an imperative, “Fork it over!” According to an commodity in Fortune by Rob Norton, it is one of the abounding clichés decidedly advantaged by business journalists (Jan. 13, 1997).Learn more: fork

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a new lease on life a notch below a nut case A-OK a pack of lies a pain in the ass a pain in the butt a paper trail a party to that a pat answer a penny for your thoughts a penny pincher a perfect stranger a pick-me-up a picture is worth a thousand words a piece of ass a piece of cake

fork over, to Idiome

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

fork over

fork something over (to someone)

fork over

fork over

fork over, to

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