Significato: 9 to 5

n. dalle nove alle cinque, tipo di attività lavorativa che inizia alle nove del mattino e termina alle cinque del pomeriggio

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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.

crack down on (something)

To booty activity to ascendancy or abuse addition or article added carefully or harshly, abnormally compared to the past. After years of leniency, the academy is assuredly arise down on plagiarism. The government has appear its affairs to able down on bodies demography advantage of the amusing abundance system.Learn more: crack, down, on

crack down on, to

To booty able measures adjoin addition or something, as in “The badge are arise down on biologic dealers.” This argot aboriginal appeared in the 1930s and bent on quickly, abnormally with advertence to repression by ascendancy figures. Learn more: crack, down

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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 cower from cowgirl position coyote coyote ugly coyote-ugly cozy cozy up cozy up (to someone or something) cozy up to someone CR crab crab mentality crack crack (something) wide open crack a book crack a bottle crack a bottle open crack a crib crack a fat crack a joke crack a smile crack a tube crack a/the window (open) crack down crack down on (something) crack down on, to crack house crack of dawn crack of dawn, (at) the crack of doom crack on crack onto (someone or something) crack open crack open a bottle crack open a/the bottle crack some suds crack someone up crack the code, to crack the door crack the door (open) crack the whip crack through (something) crack under the strain crack up crack wise crackbrain crackbrained cracked cracked up cracked up as (something) cracked up to be