fit a quart into a pint pot Идиома

a chicken in every pot

enough food for every family No one will be hungry if there's a chicken in every pot.

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 spot of tea

a small cup of tea, a drink of tea When I visit Mrs. Smith, we always have a spot of tea.

a tempest in a teapot

a lot of excitement about a small problem The argument was over quickly. It was a tempest in a teapot.

chicken in every pot

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couch potato

someone who spends too much time watching TV.

crackpot

a person who is strange or weird, wacko Some crackpot wrote a letter to him threatening his family.

drop him like a hot potato

leave him, not associate with him If she finds out you're not rich, she'll drop you like a hot potato.

go to pot

(See gone to pot)

gone to pot

in poor condition, neglected, run down The farmyard had gone to pot. There was junk everywhere.

fit a quart into a pint pot

To charge too abundant into a baby alembic or space. (A quart is a beyond bulk than a pint, so accepting a quart into a pint pot is impossible.) Primarily heard in UK. A: "Just sit on my attache while I try zipping it again." B: "Oh, abdicate aggravating to fit a quart into a pint pot."Learn more: fit, pint, pot, quart

fit a quart into a pint pot

squeeze a quart into a pint pot

BRITISHIf addition is aggravating to fit a quart into a pint pot or squeeze a quart into a pint pot, they are aggravating to put a ample bulk of commodity into a alembic or amplitude that is too small. In putting calm a `brief' commodity on the Tay Bridge Disaster, I was faced with the botheration of applicable a quart into a pint pot, there actuality so abundant actual available. We're aggravating to clasp a quart into a pint pot in agreement of the bulk of time we accept to awning everything. Note: Other verbs can be acclimated instead of fit or squeeze. `The builders approved to put a quart into a pint pot,' he commented, pointing to the attenuated amplitude amid the abode and its neighbours either side. Note: A quart is a assemblage of admeasurement for liquids. It is according to two pints. Learn more: fit, pint, pot, quart

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fit a quart into a pint pot Идиома

a chicken in every pot

a hot potato

a spot of tea

a tempest in a teapot

chicken in every pot

couch potato

crackpot

drop him like a hot potato

go to pot

gone to pot

fit a quart into a pint pot

fit a quart into a pint pot

squeeze a quart into a pint pot

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