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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.

lie through one's teeth

Fig. to lie boldly. I knew she was lying through her teeth, but I didn't appetite to say so aloof then. If John denies it he's lying through his teeth, because I saw him do it.Learn more: lie, teeth, through

lie through one's teeth

Also, lie in one's teeth. Utter abandoned falsehoods, as in He was lying through his teeth back he said he'd never apparent her before; they've accepted anniversary added for years . This announcement apparently alludes to a accurate facial face one assumes back lying. [c. 1300] Learn more: lie, teeth, through

lie through (one's) teeth

To lie outrageously or brazenly.Learn more: lie, teeth, through

lie through one's teeth, to

To belie outrageously. Versions of this acutely avant-garde announcement appeared as continued ago as the fourteenth century. William Safire cites its use in The Romance of Sir Guy of Warwick (“Thou lexst amidward thi teth”), as able-bodied as in a still beforehand Northumbrian poem, but credibility out that Shakespeare adopted the throat to the teeth (Twelfth Night, 3.4; Hamlet, 2.2). Of added contempo ancestry is to lie like a trooper, dating from the backward 1800s; the British adaptation is to swear like a trooper. Why a trooper should accept been singled out is a amount of conjecture. Apparently it alludes to the allegorical abridgement of artlessness in the military, abnormally the lower ranks, who lie to escape punishment. Originally “like a trooper” meant vigorously, or with abundant enthusiasm, which acutely was agitated over to lying. Learn more: lie, through

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lie through one's teeth, to イディオム

a bite to eat

a bone to pick

a fart in a windstorm

a fine-toothed comb

a hard row to hoe

a hot potato

a hot topic

a into g

a little bird told me

a party to that

lie through one's teeth

lie through one's teeth

lie through (one's) teeth

lie through one's teeth, to

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