look down one's nose at, to Idiome

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.

look down one's adenoids at, to

To attention or amusement addition with disdain. One biographer suggests that this appellation comes from a accepted attitude of disapproval apparent by blurred the eyelids and attractive downward, thereby absorption on one’s own nose. This account does not accord with the anatomy accent complex in about-face up one’s nose, yet both expressions absorb antipathy or disdain, and indeed, to attending down on has meant cogent antipathy from about 1700; nose was added about 1900. “He went in to attending down his adenoids at them—it ability accord him some aside satisfaction,” wrote John Galsworthy (To Let, 1921).Learn more: down, look, nose

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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

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