ship to come in, wait for one's Idiome

a stone's throw

a short distance, 25 metres A deer came into the yard, just a stone's throw from our door.

back on one's feet

physically healthy again My mother is back on her feet again after being sick with the flu for two weeks.

ball is in someone's court

be someone else's move or turn The ball was in the union's court after the company made their final offer.

beat one's brains out

try very hard to understand or do something.

blow one's top

become extremely angry.

break someone's heart

make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.

breathe one's last

to die The man finally breathed his last after a long illness.

by the skin of one's teeth

barely succeed in doing something.

card up one's sleeve

another plan or argument saved for later I thought that the negotiations would be unsuccessful but my boss had another card up his sleeve that we didn't know about.

catch one's death of cold

become very ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be careful in the rain or he would catch his death of cold.

ship to appear in, delay for one's

Wait for one’s affluence to be made. Additionally put as when my address comes in, both expressions allude to the sixteenth-century merchant address abiding home, burdened with affluent burden and appropriately adorning the owners. Shakespeare referred to such ships in The Merchant of Venice. The agreement began to be acclimated figuratively during the 1800s and continued survived the abatement of merchant shipping, but they are heard beneath generally today and may be dying out. “Perhaps we may administer it some time. Back our address comes in,” wrote Miss Mulock (John Halifax, 1857). Erskine Caldwell additionally acclimated it several times in God’s Little Acre (1933), as in, “I’ll apperceive accursed able-bodied [when] my address has appear in.”Learn more: come, ship, wait

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