fell イディオム

bottom fell out

(See the bottom fell out)

hale fellow, well met

friendly man, a good head, jolly good fellow Bert is a social person - always hale fellow, well met.

in one fell swoop

in one action, in one attack, at once Our TV ad is effective. In one fell swoop we create doubts about the other products and sell our own.

jolly good fellow

a good person, a person being honored At Jim's farewell party we sang For He's A Jolly Good Fellow.

one fell swoop

(See in one fell swoop)

the bottom fell out

the project stopped, the business failed, the wheels fall off When the price of oil dropped, the bottom fell out of the oil industry in Alberta.

hail-fellow-well-met

Idiom(s): hail-fellow-well-met

Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE

friendly to everyone; falsely friendly to everyone. (Usually said of males.)
• Yes, he's friendly, sort of hail-fellow-well-met.
• He's not a very sincere person. Hail-fellow-well-met— you know the type.
• What a pain he is. Good old Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met. What a phony!

at one fell swoop

Idiom(s): at one fell swoop AND in one fell swoop

Theme: SUDDENNESS

in a single incident; as a single event. (This phrase preserves the old word fell, meaning "terrible" or "deadly")
• The party guests ate up all the snacks at one fell swoop.
• When the stock market crashed, many large fortunes were wiped out in one fell swoop.

Little strokes fell great oaks

Meaning even though something may seem impossible, if you break it up into small parts and take one step at a time, you will succeed.

at one fell swoop|fell swoop|in one fell swoop|one

adv. phr. 1. literary In one attack or accident; in one bad blow. The millionaire lost his money and his friends at one fell swoop. 2. At one time; at the same time. Three cars drove into the driveway, and Mrs. Crane's dinner guests all arrived at one fell swoop.

fellow traveller|fellow|fellow traveler|traveler|t

n. A sympathizer with a political movement who does not officially belong to the political party in question. Many Germans after World War II were innocently accused of being fellow travellers of Nazism. During the McCarthy era, many Americans were accused of being Communist fellow travellers.

hail-fellow-well-met|hail

hail-fellow-well-met¹ adj. phr. Talking easily and in a friendly way to everyone you meet. John won the election as class president because he was hail-fellow-well-met.
hail-fellow-well-met² n. phr. A good friend and companion; buddy; pal. John just moved to town but he and the boys in the neighborhood are already hail-fellows-well-met.

regular fellow|fellow|guy|regular|regular guy

n., informal A friendly person who is easy to get along with; a good sport. You'll like Tom. He's a regular guy.
Synonym: GOOD EGG.

fell

fell
see one fell swoop, in.

fellow

fellow
see regular guy; strange bedfellows.

one fell swoop, in

one fell swoop, in
Also at one fell swoop. All at once, in a single action, as in This law has lifted all the controls on cable TV in one fell swoop. This term was used and probably invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (4:3), where the playwright likens the murder of Macduff's wife and children to a hawk swooping down on defenseless prey. Although fell here means “cruel” or “ruthless,” this meaning has been lost in the current idiom, where it now signifies “sudden.”

strange bedfellows

strange bedfellows
A peculiar alliance or combination, as in George and Arthur really are strange bedfellows, sharing the same job but totally different in their views. Although strictly speaking bedfellows are persons who share a bed, like husband and wife, the term has been used figuratively since the late 1400s. This particular idiom may have been invented by Shakespeare in The Tempest (2:2), “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Today a common extension is politics makes strange bedfellows, meaning that politicians form peculiar associations so as to win more votes. A similar term is odd couple, a pair who share either housing or a business but are very different in most ways. This term gained currency with Neil Simon's Broadway play The Odd Couple and, even more, with the motion picture (1968) and subsequent television series based on it, contrasting housemates Felix and Oscar, one meticulously neat and obsessively punctual, the other extremely messy and casual.