ingl イディオム

dingle you

phone you, call you, give me a ring I'll dingle you when I get back from Chicago.

give me a dingle

phone me, call me, give me a ring Give me a dingle sometime. My number's in the phone book.

hang out one's shingle

give public notice of the opening of a doctor's office etc The doctor decided to hang up his shingle as soon as he finished medical school.

single out

choose one person from a group Why does the priest single me out for extra duties? Why me?

Absofuckinglutely

without doubt

in single file

Idiom(s): (in) single file

Theme: ARRANGEMENT

lined up, one behind the other; in a line, one person or one thing wide.
• Have you ever seen ducks walking in single file?
• No, do they usually walk single file?
• Please march in single file.
• Please get into single file.

Swimmingly

If things are going swimmingly, they are going very well.

every single|every|every last|last|single

adj. phr. Every.

Used for emphasis. She dropped the box, and when she opened it, every single glass was broken. When she got home she found every last tomato in the box was rotten.
Synonym: EACH AND EVERY.

hang out one's shingle|hang|shingle

v. phr., informal To give public notice of the opening of an office, especially a doctor's or lawyer's office, by putting up a small signboard. The young doctor hung out his shingle and soon had a large practice.

ringleader

n. phr. The chief of an unsavory group; a higher-up. The FBI finally caught up with the ringleader of the dope smugglers from South America.

single out|single

v. phr. To select or choose one from among many. There were a lot of pretty girls at the high school prom but Don immediately singled out Sally.

spine-tingling|spine|tingle

adj. Very exciting; thrilling. Our ride up the mountain in a chair lift was spine-tingling. The children's plane ride was a spine-tingling adventure to them.

every single one

every single one
see each and every one.

shingle

shingle
see hang out one's shingle.

single

single
In addition to the idioms beginning with single, also see each and every one.
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- single file, in
- single out

single file, in

single file, in
Also, in Indian file. Aligned one behind the other, as in We have to bike in single file here, or The children were told to march in Indian file. Both usages are associated with military formations; the first term was first recorded in 1670; the variant, alluding to the usual marching order of Native Americans, was first recorded in 1758.