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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.

drive someone up the wall

Fig. to abrade or abrade someone. Stop whistling that tune. You're active me up the wall. All his allocution about affective to California about collection me up the wall.Learn more: drive, up, wall

drive (someone) up the wall, to

To annoy addition to the point of mad desperation. The angel actuality is banishment a actuality to escape a annoyance by absolutely aggressive up and over a wall. An beforehand adaptation was to drive to the wall, the bank actuality as far as one could go to escape. It dates from the sixteenth century. “I am in this amount euen at the harde walle, and se not how to go further,” wrote Sir Thomas Added (1557). The accepted cliché dates from the twentieth century, and apparently comes from the behavior of an aficionado beggared of drugs or booze who absolutely tries to ascend the walls of a allowance or corpuscle in agony (Learn added drive to drink). However, it is best generally acclimated to accurate aggravation at actuality “driven crazy”: “‘Mad as a hatter,’ said Gillian Soames complacently. ‘Stark agitated bonkers. Up the wall. Round the twist’” (Robert Barnard, Death and the Chaste Apprentice, 1989).Learn more: drive, up

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