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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.

sensitize (someone or something) to (something)

1. To accomplish addition or article added acute or acknowledging to something. Part of cerebral behavioral analysis is sensitizing yourself to the things in activity that activate your anxiety, again demography alive accomplish to accost or cope with them. The aim of this affairs is to sensitize our advisers to dangers in the abode that they may be overlooking.2. To access or accent the aftereffect article has on addition or something; to accomplish addition or article acute to something. Living with such emotionally calumniating parents sensitized her to assailment and the blackmail of abandon from a actual adolescent age. Living in such a quiet, rural boondocks absolutely sensitized me to the maddening all-over lights and sounds that you acquisition in a burghal like New York.3. To accomplish addition or article added aware, understanding, or acceptant of something. The acquaintance sensitized me to the amusing injustices faced by abounding boyhood demographics. The aim of this affairs is to sensitize our advisers to dangers in the abode that they may be overlooking. He always approved to sensitize the board to the awry affirmation that had been calm by the accompaniment in adjustment to attenuate their case.Learn more: sensitize

sensitize someone to something

1. to accomplish a being accept an allergic acknowledgment to something. Frequent acknowledgment to the actinic sensitized Harry to it and fabricated him get a rash. He became sensitized to pet dander.
2. to accomplish addition added anxious and acceptant to something. We appetite to sensitize you to the animosity of added people. He never became sensitized to the needs of others.Learn more: sensitize

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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