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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.

drop like flies

To accede to a accurate problem, generally an illness. This byword is about alone acclimated back added than one being has been abnormally affected. Now that the flu is activity through our school, bodies are bottomward like flies.Learn more: drop, flies, like

drop like flies

Fig. to faint, sicken, collapse, or die, in abundant numbers like houseflies dying in a ample group. It was a abhorrent year for the flu. Bodies were bottomward like flies.Learn more: drop, flies, like

drop like flies

Rapidly collapse, die, or bead out, usually apropos to a accumulation rather than an individual. For example, The words were so difficult that the spelling bee contestants were bottomward like flies. The affinity like flies has meant "in ample numbers," as it does in this expression, back about 1600. Learn more: drop, flies, like