up (one's) sleeve イディオム
an ace up your sleeve
card up one's sleeve
laugh up your sleeve
up your sleeve
wear your heart on your sleeve
wear one's heart on one's sleeve
Idiom(s): wear one's heart on one's sleeve AND have one's heart on one's sleeveTheme: EMOTION
to display one's feelings openly and habitually, rather than keep them private.
• John always has his heart on his sleeve so that everyone knows how he feels.
• Because she wears her heart on her sleeve, it's easy to hurt her feelings.
roll one's sleeves up
Idiom(s): roll one's sleeves upTheme: WORK
to get ready to do some work.
• Roll your sleeves up and get busy. This isn't a picnic. This is work!
• Come on, you guys, get busy. Roll up your sleeves and go to work.
laugh up one's sleeve
Idiom(s): laugh up one's sleeveTheme: LAUGHTER
to laugh secretly; to laugh quietly to oneself. (Informal.)
• Jane looked very serious, but I knew she was laughing up her sleeve.
• I told Sally that her dress was darling, but I was laughing up my sleeve because it was too small.
have sth up one's sleeve
Idiom(s): have sth up one's sleeveTheme: SOLUTION
to have a secret or surprise plan or solution (to a problem). (Slang. Refers to cheating at cards by having a card hidden in one's sleeve.)
• I've got something up my sleeve, and it should solve all your problems. I'll tell you what it is after I'm elected.
• The manager has something up her sleeve. She'll surprise us with it later.
have an ace up one's sleeve
Idiom(s): have an ace up one's sleeveTheme: DECEPTION
to have a secret or concealed means of accomplishing something.
• I think that Liz has an ace up her sleeve and will surprise us with success at the last minute.
• I have done all I can do. I have no idea what to do next. I don't have an ace up my sleeve, and I can't work miracles.
up (one's) sleeve
Of a plan or advantage, kept in abstruse so it can be activated if and back it is required. A advertence to cheating at a agenda bold by ambuscade a favorable agenda up one's sleeve. My backbone is the ace up my sleeve for this race—the added runners don't angle a chance! I've got a few tricks up my sleeve if he decides to accompany acknowledged activity adjoin me.Learn more: sleeve, upup your sleeve
(of a strategy, idea, or resource) kept abstruse and in assets for use back needed.Learn more: sleeve, upup (one's) sleeve
Hidden but accessible to be used: I still accept a few tricks up my sleeve.Learn more: sleeve, up
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have bats in one's belfry have an out have an itchy palm have an eye out for have an eye on have an ax to grind have an ace up one's sleeve have an accident have a whale of a time have a weakness for have a voice in have a vested interest in have a try at until all hours until all hours (of the day and night) until death us do part until doomsday until hell freezes over until kingdom come until the cows come home until the fat lady sings until the last until the last dog is hung until then until we meet again until you are blue in the face untimely unto unturned unvarnished unvarnished truth unvarnished truth, the unwashed unwritten unwritten law unwritten rule up up (one's) alley up (one's) sleeve up (one's) street up a blind alley up a creek up a gum tree up a notch up a storm up a stump up a tree up a/the creek (without a paddle) up against up against (something) up against a brick wall up against it up against it/the wall up against the wall up alley up an’ Adam up an’ at ’em up and up and (do something) up and about up and about/doing up and around up and at 'em up and at them
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