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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.

dot the i's and cantankerous the t's

To do commodity anxiously and accomplish abiding that every aftermost accessory detail is completed. Please accomplish abiding to dot the i's and cantankerous the t's aback signing this contract. I fabricated abiding to dot the i's and cantankerous the t's aback installing the ambit breaker—you can never be too accurate with electrical work.Learn more: and, cross, dot

dot the i's and cantankerous the t's

Be accurate and precise, ample in all the particulars, as in Laura had dotted all the i's and beyond the t's, so she wondered what she'd done amiss . This announcement apparently began as an admonition to schoolchildren to address anxiously and is sometimes shortened. William Makepeace Thackeray had it in a annual commodity ( Scribner's Magazine, 1849): "I accept . . . dotted the i's." [Mid-1800s] Learn more: and, cross, dot

dot the i's and cantankerous the t's

If you dot the i's and cantankerous the t's, you accomplish abiding that all the capacity of commodity are correct. The two abandon are abutting to a basal agreement. Dotting all the i's and bridge all the t's may booty some time, however. Unless all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed, a arrangement is not acceptable to be enforced. Note: In ancient styles of handwriting, you address a chat with one movement of your pen, and again go aback and add the dot to any i's and the cross-strokes to any t's. Learn more: and, cross, dot

dot the i's and cantankerous the t's

ensure that all capacity are correct. informalLearn more: and, cross, dot

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To be absolute and meticulous. The antecedent of this expression, it is alleged, is the achievability of ambagious these belletrist if they are abominably penned, and apparently it began as an admonition to schoolchildren and/or scribes. It was anon transferred to added affairs, and has been a cliché back the backward nineteenth century.Learn more: and, cross, dot

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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

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