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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.

cut the arena from under

Unexpectedly abjure abutment or abort one's foundation, cruise addition up. For example, Overriding his veto, Congress cut the arena from beneath the President. This allegorical byword alludes to removing the solid apple from beneath someone. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: cut, ground

cut the arena from under, to

To antithesis or baffle someone, to cruise addition up. The abstraction of leaving addition no arena to angle aloft in an altercation was bidding in the backward sixteenth aeon by several writers; occasionally “grass” was commissioned for “ground.” James Howell’s French adage accumulating of 1659 included Couper l’herbe sous les pieds, “To cut the grass beneath one’s feet.” Anthony Trollope acclimated the announcement in several of his books, including The Warden (1869): “The arena was cut from beneath her.”Learn more: cut, ground

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