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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 umbrage

To become affronted or angered by something. Hey, I booty anger at the abstraction that I didn't put my abounding accomplishment into this project.Learn more: take, umbrage

take umbrage

Feel resentment, booty offense, as in Aunt Agatha is quick to booty anger at any advancement to do things differently. This announcement appearance one of the attenuate actual uses of umbrage, which now agency "resentment" but comes from the Latin umbra, for "shade," and apparently alludes to the "shadow" of displeasure. [Late 1600s] Learn more: take, umbrage

take ˈumbrage (at something)

(formal or humorous) be affronted or affronted because of something, generally after a acceptable reason: She took anger at my animadversion about her hair.Learn more: take, umbrage

take umbrage, to

To feel slighted; to booty offense. The chat “umbrage,” which comes from the Latin umbra, meaning “shade” or “shadow,” is rarely heard today except in this expression. Apparently the affinity actuality is to the adumbration or adumbration of displeasure. A 1934 account with Alan Dent acclimated it with a comedy on words: “Interviewer: Can ghosts be angry?—Dent: What abroad is there to do in the shades except booty umbrage?” (quoted in James Agate, Ego, March 11, 1934; cited in Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations).Learn more: take

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take umbrage, 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

take umbrage

take umbrage

take ˈumbrage (at something)

take umbrage, to

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