ticks イディオム
fiddlesticks
oh no, darn, nuts, rats, shucks Fiddlesticks! I forgot to get the mail!
deuce of ticks
two minutes
sticks and stones
Idiom(s): sticks and stones
Theme: ENMITY
elements of harm [directed at someone]. (Part of a rhyme, "Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Fixed order.)
• I have had enough of your sticks and stones. I have enough trouble without your adding to it.
• After the opposing candidate had used sticks and stones for a month, suddenly there were kind words heard.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names w
Physical attacks may harm me, but cruel words will not.
Out in the sticks
(UK) If someone lives out in the sticks, they live out in the country, a long way from any metropolitan area.
Up sticks
(UK) If you up sticks, you leave somewhere, usually permanently and without warning- he upped sticks and went to work abroad.