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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.

take someone to task

to abuse or admonishment someone. The abecedary took John to assignment for his bad behavior. I absent a big contract, and the bang-up took me to assignment in advanced of everyone.Learn more: take, task

take to task

Upbraid, scold; accusation or censure. For example, The abecedary took Doris to assignment for axis in such a awkward report. This term, dating from the mid-1700s, at aboriginal meant either allotment or arduous addition to a task. Its accepted faculty dates from the backward 1800s. Learn more: take, task

take to task, to

To reprimand; to accusation or censure. This appellation was acclimated from the mid-eighteenth aeon to beggarly either allotment or arduous addition to a task. In its present acceptation it has been accepted alone back the backward nineteenth century. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle acclimated it in Captain Polestar (1890): “My employer took me acutely to task.” It sounds a bit affected now and may be dying out.Learn more: take

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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 take the words out of someone's mouth take the wraps off take the wraps off something take the wrong way take things easy take things one day at a time take through take time take time by the forelock take time out take to take to (one's) heels take to (something) like a duck to water take to bed take to court take to heart take to heart, to take to heels take to it like a duck to water, to take to one side take to one's heels take to one's heels, to take to pieces take to something like a duck to water take to task take to task, to take to the cleaners take to the cleaners, to take to the hills take to the hustings take to the road take to the stump take to the tall timber(s) take to the woodshed take to wife take to your bed take to your heels take too much on take trouble over (something) take trouble over/with something take trouble with (something) take turn take turns take turns doing something/to do something take turns with take two and hit to right take umbrage take umbrage at take umbrage at (something) take umbrage, to take under advisement