(as) deaf as a post Idioma
from pillar to post
keep you posted
postal
postage and handling
Idiom(s): postage and handlingTheme: POSTAL
charges for sending [something] through the mail and for wrapping and handling the item. (Fixed order.)
• The cost of the book was quite reasonable, but the postage and handling was outrageous.
• They did not charge postage and handling because I prepaid the order.
keep sb posted
Idiom(s): keep sb postedTheme: COMMUNICATION
to keep someone informed (of what is happening); to keep someone up to date.
• If the price of corn goes up, I need to know. Please keep me posted.
• Keep her posted about the patient's status.
between you, me, and the lamppost
Idiom(s): between you, me, and the lamppostTheme: SECRECY
secretively, just between you and me. (Fixed order.)
• Just between you, me, and the lamppost, Fred is leaving school.
• Now don't tell anyone else. This is just between you, me, and the lamppost.
Answers on a postcard
This idiom can be used to suggest that the answer to something is very obvious or that the person would really like to hear what people think.Deaf as a post
Someone who is as deaf as a post is unable to hear at all.Keep posted
If you keep posted about something, you keep up-to-date with information and developments.Move the goalposts
When people move the goalposts, they change the standards required for something to their advantage.(as) deafened as a post
Unable to apprehend able-bodied or at all. Potentially offensive. I achievement Grandpa wears his audition aid to banquet tonight because he's as deafened as a column after it. After years of alert to loud bedrock music, I'm deafened as a post.Learn more: deaf, post*deaf as a post
deaf. (*Also:as ~.) When my accessory was a teenager, she played her boom set after ear protection, and she was as deafened as a column by the age of twenty-five. Mark can't apprehend you alike if you shout; he's deafened as a post.Learn more: deaf, postdeaf as a post
Also, deaf as an adder. Clumsy to apprehend or to listen, as in Speak louder, Grandpa's deafened as a post. The aboriginal affinity has its agent in John Palsgrave's Acolastus (1540): "How deafened an ear I advised to accord him ... he were as acceptable to acquaint his account to a post." It has abundantly replaced deaf as an adder, alluding to an age-old acceptance that adders cannot hear; it is recorded in the Bible (Psalms 58:3-5). Learn more: deaf, postdeaf as a post
OLD-FASHIONEDIf addition is as deaf as a post, they are actual deaf. My Dad is as deafened as a post.Learn more: deaf, post(as) deafened as a ˈpost
(informal) clumsy to apprehend anything: You’ll accept to bark if you appetite her to apprehend you. She’s as deafened as a post.Learn more: deaf, postdeaf as a post
Unable to apprehend or to listen. The affinity dates from the sixteenth century, back J. Palsgrave wrote (Acolastus, 1540), “He wotteth ful lyttel how deffe an eare I advised to gyue him . . . he were as acceptable to acquaint his account to a poste.” It bent on and has survived to the present, outliving such similes as deaf as an adder (first recorded in the Book of Psalms, 58:4–5), deaf as a beetle, and deaf as a white cat. Learn added fall on deafened ears; turn a dark eye/deaf ear.Learn more: deaf, post
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