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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.

lose one's arch (over addition or something)

Fig. to become abashed or ever affecting about addition or something. Don't lose your arch over John. He isn't account it. I'm sorry. I got agitated and absent my head.Learn more: head, lose

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lose one's head, to

To become so agitated that one cannot act sensibly. This expression, which at one time meant accurate beheading and was acclimated figuratively from the mid-nineteenth aeon on, differs from the added contempo adage “You’d lose your arch if it wasn’t busted on,” addressed to an acutely absent person. Thomas Macaulay’s History of England (1855) stated, “He absent his head, about fainted abroad on the attic of the House.”Learn more: lose

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