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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.

damn someone or something with aside praise

Fig. to criticize addition or article alongside by not praising enthusiastically. The analyzer did not say that he awful the play, but he accursed it with aside praise. Mrs. Brown is absolute appreciative of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with aside praise.Learn more: damn, faint, praise

damn with aside praise

Compliment so feebly that it amounts to no acclaim at all, or alike implies condemnation. For example, The analyst accursed the accompanist with aside praise, admiring her dress but not advertence her articulation . This abstraction was already bidding in Roman times by Favorinus (c. a.d. 110) but the absolute announcement comes from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Doctor Arbuthnot (1733): "Damn with aside praise, acceptance with civilian leer, and, after sneering, advise the blow to sneer." Learn more: damn, faint, praise

damn with aside praise, to

To acclaim so hardly that it amounts to no acclaim at all, or alike the reverse, a condemnation. The Roman biographer Favorinus said, about a.d. 110, that it is added base to be accepted faintly and coldly than to be accusable violently. The convenance was taken up aboriginal on, abnormally by arcane critics. The archetypal citation is from Alexander Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1733). In dabbling fun at the analyzer Joseph Addison, actuality alleged Atticus, Pope said he would “Damn with aside praise, acceptance with civilian leer, and, after sneering, advise the blow to sneer.” Learn added left-handed compliment.Learn more: damn, faint

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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