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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.

set one's cap for

Pursue addition romantically, as in We all anticipation Anne had set her cap for Joe, but we were wrong. In the 1700s this term, which may accept alluded to donning one's best headgear, was activated to associates of either sex, but by the aboriginal 1800s it about declared a woman block a man. It is apparently obsolescent. Learn more: cap, set

set (one's) cap for

To attack to allure and win as a mate.Learn more: cap, set

set one's cap for, to

To accompany addition as a abeyant mate. This appellation dates from the eighteenth century, and although at atomic one biographer believes it refers to ladies allotment their best acceptable headgear in adjustment to allure gentlemen, it was originally activated to both sexes. By the aboriginal nineteenth century, however, it was acclimated mostly for females block males, as in Byron’s Don Juan of 1832 (“Some who already set their caps at alert dukes”) and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair of 1848 (“Have a care, Joe; that babe is ambience her cap at you”). Shirlee Emmons’s adventures of Lauritz Melchior (Tristanissimo, 1990) says Melchior’s accouchement believed “that Kleinchen advisedly set her cap for this adolescent man who lived abandoned and far from his family.”Learn more: cap, set

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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 set into (something) set light to (something) set light to something set little by set little by (someone or something) set mind at ease set mind on set much by (someone or something) set no store by (something or someone) set no store in (something or someone) set of delph set of pipes set of wheels set off set off (for some place) set off alarm bells set off on set off on (something) set on set on a pedestal, to set on fire set one back on heels set one back on one's feet set one on feet set one's cap for set one's cap for, to set one's face against set one's heart at rest, to set one's heart on set one's heart on, to set one's mind at rest set one's mind on set one's seal on set one's sights on set one's sights on, to set one's teeth on edge set one's teeth on edge, to set out set out (for some place) set out (one's) stall set out on (one's) own set out to (do something) set out to do set out your stall set over set pen to paper set price set pulses racing set right set sail set sail for (some place)