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

poke one's nose into, to Idioma

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.

poke one's adenoids into

Pry into or meddle in another's affairs, as in I told her to stop dabbling her adenoids into our business. This acceptance replaced the beforehand thrust one's adenoids into in the mid-1800s. Learn more: nose, poke

poke one's adenoids into, to

To interfere, to meddle. This appellation began as thrust one’s adenoids into someone’s affairs, aback in the sixteenth century. The affinity apparently is to a dog or added beastly nosing about. Samuel Johnson acclimated it in his Dictionary under “Nose” (1755): “To advance one’s Adenoids into the diplomacy of others, to be meddling with added people’s matters.” In America at some point poke was substituted.Learn more: nose, poke

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