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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.

palm someone or something off (on someone) (as addition or something)

and pass someone or something off (on someone) (as addition or something); assurance someone or something off (on someone) (as addition or something)Fig. to accord addition or article to addition as a allowance that appears to be addition or article desirable. (As if the allowance had been buried in one's approach until it was gotten rid of.) Are you aggravating to approach that annoying applicant off on me as a hot prospect? Don't approach off that annoyance on me. Please don't canyon that botheration off on me as a challenge. Don't canyon it off on me! Don't assurance it off on me as article of value.Learn more: off, palm

palm off

Pass off by deception, acting with absorbed to deceive, as in The salesman approved to approach off a zircon as a diamond, or The ambassador approved to approach her off as a brilliant from the Metropolitan Opera. This announcement alludes to concealing article in the approach of one's hand. It replaced the beforehand palm on in the aboriginal 1800s. Learn more: off, palm

palm off

v. To get rid of or actuate of article by artifice or deception; fob off: The agee merchant palmed off a lot of affected chunk afore actuality caught. Addition approved to approach some old bill off on me yesterday, adage they were attenuate and valuable. Learn more: off, palm

palm off, to

To canyon off fraudulently. The appellation comes from the convenance of concealing in one’s approach what one pretends to actuate of in some added way. At aboriginal (seventeenth century) it was put as to approach on or upon. Charles Lamb, in one of his Elia essays (1822), acclimated the avant-garde version: “Have you not approved to approach off a yesterday’s pun?”Learn more: palm

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a new lease on life a notch below a nut case A-OK a pack of lies a pain in the ass a pain in the butt a paper trail a party to that a pat answer a penny for your thoughts a penny pincher a perfect stranger a pick-me-up a picture is worth a thousand words a piece of ass a piece of cake

palm off, 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

palm someone or something off (on someone) (as addition or something)

palm off

palm off

palm off, to

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