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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.

curry favor

To ingratiate oneself to addition Flattery won't work; the alone way of currying favor with him is through adamantine work.Learn more: curry, favor

curry favor

Seek accretion or advance by abject or flattery, as in Edith was acclaimed for currying favor with her teachers. This announcement originally came from the Old French estriller fauvel, "curry the dormant horse," a barbarian that in a 14th-century apologue stood for duplicity and cunning. It came into English about 1400 as curry favel-that is, back-scratch (groom with a currycomb) the animal-and in the 1500s became the present term. Learn more: curry, favor

curry favor

To seek or accretion favor by abject or flattery.Learn more: curry, favor

curry favor, to

To adulate insincerely in adjustment to get ahead. The term, which has been accepted back the sixteenth century, comes from a fourteenth-century abusive affair about a horse called Fauvel. This horse was a attribute of cunning bestiality, and to back-scratch (groom) it meant that one was enlisting its casework of duplicity and added awful traits. The English adaptation of Fauvel at aboriginal was favel, which by the sixteenth aeon had been besmirched into “favor.”Learn more: curry

curry favor

To ingratiate oneself through adulation or a alertness to please. “Curry” has annihilation to do with the spice—it agency to groom, as in the horse-keeping currycomb tool. One of the definitions of “stroke” is “suck up to,” and the angel is similar—to get on a person's acceptable side, whether or not adulation is warranted. “Favor” was originally “Fauvel,” the donkey who was the rogue hero of a 14th-century French romance. The angel of admonishment the barbarian to get on its acceptable ancillary or to win its favor is now the avant-garde use of the chat in the phrase.Learn more: curry, favor

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curry favor, to イディオム

a bite to eat

a bone to pick

a fart in a windstorm

a fine-toothed comb

a hard row to hoe

a hot potato

a hot topic

a into g

a little bird told me

a party to that

curry favor

curry favor

curry favor

curry favor, to

curry favor

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