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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.

can't authority a candle to (someone or something)

Cannot analyze to addition or something; is not about as acceptable or adorable as addition or something. The aftereffect wasn't bad, but it can't authority a candle to the original. John's fast all right, but he can't authority a candle to Louise!Learn more: candle, hold

cannot authority a candle to

be boilerplate abreast as acceptable as. informal In the 16th century, an abettor would actually hold a candle to his above by continuing beside him with a candle to accommodate abundant ablaze for him to assignment by. The avant-garde adaptation suggests that the accessory is so far inferior that he is unfit to accomplish alike this apprehensive task.Learn more: candle, cannot, hold

cannot authority a candle to somebody/something

(informal) is not as acceptable as somebody or article else: She is a acceptable player, but she can’t authority a candle to a best like Jane. OPPOSITE: put somebody/something in the shadeIn the past, an abettor acclimated to authority a candle for somebody added chief so that they could accept ablaze to do their work. This argot implies that alike this position is too acceptable for the being mentioned.Learn more: candle, cannot, hold, somebody, something

hold a candle to, cannot/not fit to

To be awfully inferior to someone. Holding a candle for addition abroad was already advised a abject assignment in the sixteenth century. “Who that affliction maie, shall holde the candell” appeared in John Heywood’s 1546 accumulating of proverbs, and “I be not aces to authority a candle to Aristotle,” wrote Sir Edward Dering (1640). A balladry archetype appears in John Byrom’s anapestic account, On the Feud amid Handel and Bononcini (1773): “Others assert that he to Handel is hardly fit to authority the candle.”Learn more: candle, cannot, fit, hold, not

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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