work one's tail off Idiome

a bit off/a bit mental

not rational, unbalanced, one brick short Kate talks to the birds. Do you think she's a bit off?

a chip off the old block

a boy who is like his dad, the apple doesn't... Eric is a chip off the old block. He's just like his dad.

a little hair off the dog

(See hair off the dog)

a little off

not quite sane, a bit crazy, one brick short... When Clem started eating grass, we knew he was a little off.

a rip-off

unfair price or rule, priced too high The price of drinks was a rip-off. A small Coke cost $3!

a takeoff on

similar to, based on the same idea, a send-up The school play was a takeoff on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

an offer I couldn't refuse

an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

another nail in your coffin

"another cigarette; harmful substance" Every cigarette he smoked was another nail in his coffin.

back off

do not come closer, do not touch me Back off, you animal! Don't touch me!

be off

leave, go, off with you Be off, my dear, or you'll be late for work.

work one’s appendage off

and work one’s ass off and work one’s buns off and work one’s base off tv. to assignment actual hard. (Often objectionable.) You absorb bisected your activity alive your base off—and for what? I formed my buns off to get this done on time! Learn more: off, tail, work

work one's appendage off, to

To assignment actual hard. This awkward declamation dates from the aboriginal bisected of the twentieth century. James Farrell acclimated it in Studs Lonigan (1932–35): “This abstraction of afraid your appendage off with work.” It additionally is put as to assignment one’s ass or butt off. Learn added break/bust one's ass.Learn more: tail, to, work

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be a piece of cake be all ears be-all, end-all be broke be fed up with (with someone or something) be in and out be my guest be my undoing be off be on the go be on the road be over be there be there for me be there or be square be to blame be up and running work it work it so (that) (something is the case) work it/things work itself out work like a beaver work like a charm work like a dog work like a dream work like a horse work like a mule work like a slave work like a Trojan work like magic work miracles work nights work of art work off work on work on (someone or something) work on all cylinders work one's ass off work one's buns off work one's butt off work one's fingers to the bone work one's fingers to the bone, to work one's tail off work one's tail off, to work one's way work oneself into a lather work oneself up work oneself up into work oneself up into a lather work oneself up to something work out work out all right work out for the best work out of work over work smarter, not harder work some fat off work someone over work spouse work tail off work the crowd work the oracle work the problem work the rabbit's foot on work the rabbit's foot on (someone) work the room work the soul case out of work things out