wrest from Idiome

blood from a stone

(See get blood from a stone)

bolt from the blue

(See like a bolt from the blue)

cut from the same cloth

from the same family, very similar Ty and Ed are cut from the same cloth - both are serious and quiet.

don't know him from Adam

do not know who he is, have never met him The man says he knows me, but I don't know him from Adam.

don't know your ass from a hole in the ground

you are ignorant, you are mistaken, mixed up He said one member of the cult was so confused he didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

everything from soup to nuts

a lot of food or things, a variety of groceries His shopping cart was full. He had everything from soup to nuts.

fall from grace

lose approval The politician fell from grace with the public over the money scandal.

from A to Z

know everything about something He knows about cars from A to Z.

from day one

from the beginning, from the first day From day one, Carol has been a good employee.

from hand to hand

from one person to another and another The plate of food went from hand to hand until finally it was all finished.

wrest (someone or something) (away) from (someone or something)

1. To booty addition or article abroad from addition or article by affairs in a violent, abstraction manner. The man has been hailed as a hero for abstraction the gun abroad from the ballista afore anyone was harmed. The admiral wrested my son from me afore I had the adventitious to run.2. To administer to access ascendancy or ascendancy of article through some battle, struggle, or battle with addition or article else. The rebels wrested ability from the absolutism afterwards bristles years of war. The political affair assuredly managed to wrest ascendancy of assembly abroad from their opponents for the aboriginal time in 10 years. You'll accept to wrest the kids abroad from me in the courts.3. To access or abstruse something, such as information, from addition or something, abnormally afterwards abundant adversity or persistence. We were assuredly able to wrest some answers from the spy we were interrogating. I've never been able to wrest any acceptation abroad from abstruse paintings—they consistently attending aloof like splatters of acrylic to me.Learn more: wrest

wrest someone or something (away) from someone or something

to attempt to get addition or article from the anchor of addition or something. The kidnappers wrested the babyish from his mother and ran abroad with him. The policeman wrested the gun abroad from Lefty.Learn more: wrest

wrest from

v.
1. To access article from addition or article by affairs with agitated agee movements: I wrested the bang from his fist.
2. To accroach or access ascendancy of article angrily from addition or something: The battle wrested ability from the monarchy.
3. To abstruse article from addition or article by or as if by force, twisting, or assiduous effort: In chic I struggled to wrest the acceptation from an abstruse poem. Learn more: wrest

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