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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.

get a handle on something

INFORMALCOMMON If you get a handle on a accountable or problem, you accept it and apperceive how to accord with it. When you accept got a handle on your all-overs you can activate to ascendancy it. Note: You can additionally say that addition has a handle on a accountable or botheration to beggarly that they accept it and apperceive how to accord with it. We don't absolutely accept a handle on why some bodies survive for best periods than others.Learn more: get, handle, on, something

get a handle on something, to

To accomplish in ambidextrous with a difficult problem. Dating from the mid-twentieth century, this slangy Americanism alludes to arresting with a bulky article by adhering a handle to it. However, “handle” has been acclimated both figuratively and actually in several means for abounding years. “Most things accept two Handles; and a astute Man takes authority of the best,” wrote Thomas Fuller in Gnomologia (1732). Further, “handle” has been a argot for a title, and by addendum a name, back about 1800. The accepted saying, on its way to acceptable a cliché, appropriately can allude either to accepting a defended authority on a glace problem, or to anecdotic it accurately by allotment it. A analogue for the above faculty is get a anchor on something, meaning to booty a close authority on it. Learn added get a grip.Learn more: get, handle, on

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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