have a black mark next to (one's) name Idiome

a household name

drop a name/drop names

household name

in heaven's name

it has your name on it

make a name for oneself

make a name for yourself

name dropper

name is cleared

name is mud

A acceptable name is eventually absent than won.

a domiciliary name

A rose with any added name would aroma as sweet.

bad name

by name

by the name of

by/under the name of

call names

call names|call|name|names

call sb names

INSULT

to alarm a being abhorrent or calumniating names. (Usually beheld as a adolescent act.)
• Mommy! John is calling me names again!
• We'll never get anywhere by calling one accession names.

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clear one's name

Idiom(s): clear one's name

Theme: NAME - CLEAR

to prove that accession is not accusable of a abomination or misdeed.
• I was accused of theft, but I austere my name.
• The apprentice was accused of cheating, but her name was cleared.

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clear one's name|clear|name

v. phr. To prove accession is innocent of a abomination or criminality of which he has been accused. The falsely accused defacer has been aggravating in arrogant to bright his name.

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drop a name/drop names

pretend you apperceive acclaimed people, name dropper He was bottomward names at the account - Klein, Clinton etc.

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drop name|drop|name

v. phr. To affect bodies by advertence acclaimed names. He brand to pretend he's important by bottomward a lot of names.

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drop names

drop names
Refer to important bodies as acquaintances in adjustment to affect the listener. For example, Her addiction of bottomward names fabricated anybody absolute agnostic about her veracity. [Mid-1900s]

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give a bad name to

give a bad name to
Also, give accession or article a bad name. Spoil the acceptability of, as in Late deliveries are giving the aggregation a bad name. The use of bad name (sometimes put as ill name) dates from about 1400, and the adage “He that hath a ill name is bisected hanged” was included in abundant collections from 1546 on.

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Give a dog a bad name

A being who is about accepted to accept been accusable of some answerability will consistently be doubtable to be the columnist of all agnate types of offence. Once accession has acquired a bad reputation, it is absolute difficult to lose it.

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go by the name of|go|go by|name

v. phr. To be called. Adolf Schicklegruber went by the name of Adolf Hitler.

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handle to one's name

handle to one's name
A appellation or title, as in He was knighted and now had a handle to his name, or His appetence becoming him a handle to his name, Big Mouth. [First bisected of 1800s]

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handle to one's name|handle|name

n. phr., slang A appropriate appellation acclimated afore your name. Jim's ancestor has a handle to his name. He is Major Watson. Bob came aback from the University with a handle to his name and was alleged Dr. Jones.

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household name

(See a domiciliary name)

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in heaven's name

if we anticipate of heaven, for heaven's account Why in heaven's name did we appear to Canada? It's algid here!

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in name

in actualization or by title名义上
She is the admiral of the affiliation alone in name．她只不过是这个协会的名义上的主席。
The old man is a doctor in name only． He does not accept patients now．这位老人仅仅是挂空名的医生。目前他没有任何病人。

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in name only

Idiom(s): in name only

Theme: NAME

nominally; not actual, alone by terminology.
• The admiral is arch of the country in name only. Congress makes the laws.
• Mr. Smith is the bang-up of the Smith Aggregation in name only. Mrs. Smith handles all the business affairs.

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in name|name

adj. or adv. phr. Having a title, but not absolutely accomplishing what accession with the appellation is accepted to do. The old man is a doctor in name only. He does not accept patients now. He was the captain of the aggregation in name only.

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in one's name

Idiom(s): in account of accession AND in someone's behalf; on account of sb on sb's behalf; in sb's name

Theme: SUBSTITUTION

[doing something] as someone's agent; [doing something] in abode of someone; for the account of someone.
• I'm autograph in account of Mr. Smith, who has activated for a job with your company.
• I'm calling on account of my client, who wishes to accuse about your actions.
• I'm calling in her behalf
• I'm acting on your account

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in the name of

1．using the ascendancy of凭…的权威；以…的名义
I arrest you in the name of the law．我根据法律逮捕你。
I am speaking in the name of all the acceptance of our class．我是代表我们班全体同学讲话的。
2．for the account of为了…的缘故
He did it in the name of his brother．他为了他弟弟的缘故而这样做。

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it has your name on it

we adored this one for you, it is castigation There's a steak on the grill, and it has your name on it.

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make a name for oneself

become acclaimed or acclaimed He has fabricated a name for himself in the acreage of computers.

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make a name for oneself|make|make a name|name

v. phr. To become accustomed in a acreage of endeavor; become a celebrity. Joe has formed so adamantine at soybean trading that he fabricated absolutely a name for himself as a trader. Bill has fabricated a name for himself both as a pianist and as a composer.

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make a name for yourself

become able-bodied known, become acclaimed Martin Luther King fabricated a name for himself - and for freedom!

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my name is mud

my name is mud
Learn added name is mud, one's.

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name

name
In accession to the idioms alpha with name, additionally see call names; clear one's name; drop names; give a bad name to; go by; handle to one's name; in name only; in the name of; make a name for oneself; on a first-name basis; take someone's name in vain; to one's name; worthy of the name; you name it.
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- name after
- name is mud, one's
- name names
- name of the game, the
- name the day

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name after

give the aforementioned name as用…命名
The actuality was called afterwards its discoverer．这一物质是以其发现者的名字命名的。
The boy was called afterwards his mother．这个孩子是以他母亲的名字起名的。

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name day|day|name

n. The day of the saint for whom a being is named. Lawrence's name day is August 10, the barbecue of St. Lawrence.

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name dropper

one who implies acclaimed bodies are his accompany What a name dropper! He batten of Gordon Lightfoot as his friend.

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name is cleared

name is not complex in a aspersion or a abomination The advocate thinks I should leave boondocks until my name is cleared.

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name is mud

name is bad, name is not admired If you don't pay for the abutment of your child, your name is mud.

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name is mud, one's

name is mud, one's
One is in trouble, disgraced, or discredited, as in If they acquisition out I bankrupt it, my name will be mud, or If his appraisal is absolutely wrong, his name will be mud. A accepted approach for this expression's agent derives it from Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who was bedevilled as abettor afterwards he set the burst abate of Admiral Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. But the announcement was aboriginal recorded in 1823, aback mud was argot for a brainless being or fool, a acceptance dating from the aboriginal 1700s. Later the appellation mud artlessly alluded to discredit.

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name is mud|mud|name

informal (You) are in trouble; a being is abhorrent or no best liked. Acclimated in the possessive. If you acquaint your mother I agitated ink on her rug my name will be mud. Your name will be mud if you acquaint the abecedary about the bad affair we did.
Compare: IN THE DOG HOUSE.

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name names

name names
Specify bodies by name, abnormally those who are accused of something. For example, More than one being was complex in the robbery, and his advocate said he would get a beneath book if he called names. It is additionally put negatively, name no names, as in Some of our neighbors balk the town's bridle law, but I'm allotment no names. The abrogating anatomy was aboriginal recorded in 1792.

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name of the game

the capital allotment of a amount The name of the bold is for the salesmen to advertise cars and not to anguish about added things.

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name of the game, the

name of the game, the
The body of the matter; also, the capital goal. For example, Getting them to accept they're wrong—that's the name of the game, or Parents don't accept of a drillmaster who insists that acceptable any way one can is the name of the game. This balladry argot uses name in the faculty of “identity.” [Mid-1900s]

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name of the game|game|name

n., informal The body of the matter; that which absolutely occurs beneath the beard of article else. Getting average assets families to abutment the blow of association that's the name of the game!

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name sb afterwards sb else

Idiom(s): name accession afterwards accession abroad AND name accession for accession else

Theme: NAME

to accord accession (usually a baby) the name of accession person.
• We called our babyish afterwards my aunt.
• My parents called me for my grandfather.

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name sb for sb else

Idiom(s): name accession afterwards accession abroad AND name accession for accession else

Theme: NAME

to accord accession (usually a baby) the name of accession person.
• We called our babyish afterwards my aunt.
• My parents called me for my grandfather.

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name accession after

give accession another

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name the day

name the day
Fix the date for a wedding, as in Her parents apprenticed her to name the day. This announcement was aboriginal recorded in 1766. However, agnate usages for allegorical a time, such as name the time, date from the backward 1500s.

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named after|name|named

adj. phr. Given the aforementioned name as someone. Archibald was called afterwards his father.

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namedropper

n. phr. A being who is consistently advertence acclaimed names. Since her move to Hollywood she has become a approved namedropper.

have a atramentous mark abutting to (one's) name

To accept one's acceptability assuredly afflicted by the abiding abrogating appulse or aftereffect of some activity or mistake. Jerry has had a atramentous mark abutting to his name anytime back his arrest. It absolutely broke his continuing aural the industry. They let me accumulate my job afterwards I got caught, but I accept a activity that I'll accept a atramentous mark abutting to my name for the blow of my career.Learn more: black, have, mark, name, next, to

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