trip balls Idiom

got the balls

got the courage, got what it takes He wants to enforce gun control, and he's got the balls to do it.

got you by the balls

"got you so you can't move; can't quit or back out" If you signed the contract, they've got you by the balls.

have the balls

(See got the balls)

balls

1. testicles. Usually in plural
2. courage, in for example,"She hasn't got the balls to tell him the truth"
3. rubbish, nonsense
4. (interj) expressing annoyance

balls something up

to make a mess of a situation

balls-up

1. a mess up, a "cock-up.""I've made a right balls-up of my exams" 2. to make a mess of a situation, balls something up

ballsed-up

ruined, in a mess

break balls

to work hard

put sth in mothballs

Idiom(s): put sth in mothballs

Theme: SAVING

to put something in storage. (Often said of battleships.)
• The navy put the old cruiser in mothballs and no one ever expected to see it again.
• Let's just put this small bicycle in mothballs until we hear of a child who can use it.

up to one's eyeballs in

Idiom(s): up to one's neck (in something) AND up to one's ears (in sth); up to one's eyeballs (in sth)

Theme: INVOLVEMENT

having a lot of something; very much involved in something. (Informal.)
• I can't come to the meeting. I'm up to my neck in these reports.
• Mary is up to her ears in her work.
• I am up to my eyeballs in things to do! I can't do any more!

trip balls

rude slang To become bagged from a aberrant or consciousness-expanding drug. Oh, Jim? Don't worry, he took some acerbic and is affectionate of benumbed balls, but he'll be accomplished in a few hours.Learn more: ball, trip

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More Idioms/Phrases

well-fixed welcome sb with open arms wee hours of the night wash one's dirty linen in public use one's noodle use one's noggin up to scratch up to one's eyeballs in up to one's ears in under the auspices of touch a sore point time and time again tight as a tick