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

take it lying down, 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.

take it lying down, to

To abide to insult or abuse after resistance. The angel conveyed by this announcement is that of a abashed animal, which accepts its black fate instead of jumping up in protest. This allegory appeared aboriginal in the backward nineteenth aeon and is best generally put negatively. It was so acclimated by Shaw in Androcles and the Lion (1914): “I should feel abashed if I let myself be addled like that, and took it lying down.”Learn more: lying, take

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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 take issue with (someone or something) take issue with somebody take it take it as read take it away Take it away! take it down a notch Take it down a thou! Take it down a thousand! take it easy take it easy on take it easy on (someone or something) take it from here take it from here/there take it from me Take it from me! take it from me, (you can) take it from the top take it from there take it in stride, to take it in the neck take it into (one's) head (to do something) take it into your head take it into your head to do something take it like a man take it lying down, to take it on (oneself) to (do something) take it on the chin take it on the lam take it on the nose take it on/upon yourself to do something take it one day at a time take it or leave it take it out of (one) take it out of one take it out of somebody take it out on take it out on (someone or something) take it out on somebody take it out on someone/something take it outside take it slow take it that take it through the nose take it to grave take it to the street take it up the ass take it upon (oneself) to (do something) take it upon oneself take it with (one) (when one goes) take it with one

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