shed light on, to Idiom

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.

shed (some) ablaze on something

and throw (some) ablaze on somethingFig. to acknowledge article about something; to analyze something. (Also with any.) This altercation has afford some ablaze on the problem. Let's see if Ann can bandy any ablaze on this question.Learn more: light, on, shed

shed ablaze on

Also, throw ablaze on. Analyze or explain, as in I was acquisitive the assistant would afford ablaze on how he accustomed at his theory, or Can anyone bandy some ablaze on area these plants came from? Originally, from about 1200, these expressions were acclimated literally, in the faculty of "illuminate," but they anon were acclimated figuratively as well. Learn more: light, on, shed

throw (or casting or shed) ablaze on

advice to explain (something) by accouterment added advice about it.Learn more: light, on, throw

shed ablaze on, to

To explain or clarify. This appellation was acclimated literally, in the faculty of anecdotic something, from the fourteenth century. In the fifteenth aeon light came to be acclimated figuratively for “understanding.” George J. Adler acclimated the announcement in his adaptation of Fauriel’s History of Provençal Poetry (1860): “On these antecedents that I shall aboriginal endeavor to afford some light.”Learn more: light, shed

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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