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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.

test the water

test the waters

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1. If you test the water or test the waters, you try to acquisition out people's opinions about an abstraction or plan afore putting that abstraction or plan into practice. I was a bit sceptical and absitively to analysis the baptize afore committing the complete administration team. It's adamantine to accomplish a animadversion until we analysis the baptize at the affair conference.
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test the water

adjudicator people's animosity or opinions afore demography added action.Learn more: test, water

test the baptize (waters), to

To try article out. This expression, which alludes either to testing the abstention of baptize in a able-bodied or to putting one’s duke or bottom into baptize to analysis its temperature, dates from the backward 1800s. Diana Ramsay acclimated it in A Little Murder Music (1970), “‘If you’re attempting to authorize a motive. . . .’—‘I’m aloof testing the water,’ Meredith said.”Learn more: test, water

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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

test the water (waters), 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

test the water

test the waters

test the water

test the baptize (waters), to

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