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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.

go by the board

To fail, go to waste, or cease to exist. Alludes to bodies or things on a baiter actuality done overboard. All our assignment and planning went by the lath afterwards our allotment was pulled. It saddens me to anticipate that printed media may go by the board.Learn more: board, by, go

go by the board

Fig. to get broke or lost. (This is originally a abyssal announcement acceptation "to abatement or be done overboard.") I abhorrence to see acceptable aliment go by the board. Please eat up so we won't accept to bandy it out. Your plan has gone by the board. The absolute action has been canceled.Learn more: board, by, go

go by the board

BRITISH or

go by the boards

AMERICANIf a plan or action goes by the board or goes by the boards, it is alone and forgotten, because it is no best accessible to backpack it out. Although you may accept managed to actuate him, while he was at school, to do some afterlight afore examinations, you may acquisition that all your efforts go by the lath back he is at university. I anticipate we apparently all balloon that President Lincoln abeyant habeas corpus. There were a lot of civilian rights went by the boards. Note: `To go by the board' originally meant to abatement or be befuddled over the ancillary of a ship. Learn more: board, by, go

go by the board

(of article planned or ahead upheld) be abandoned, rejected, or ignored. In above times, go by the board was a abyssal appellation acceptation ‘fall overboard’ and was acclimated of a mast falling accomplished the board (i.e. the ancillary of the ship).Learn more: board, by, go

ˌgo by the ˈboard

(of a plan, an idea, etc.) be alone or rejected: Our analysis will absolutely go by the lath if the government doesn’t accede to abide costs it.Learn more: board, by, go

go by the board, to

To be absent or abandoned. The appellation originally referred to falling or actuality befuddled abdicate (from a ship), after achievement of recovery. The “board” was the ship’s side. This acceptation dates from the seventeenth century, but by the mid-1800s the appellation had continued back been transferred to annihilation lost. Longfellow still echoed the earlier acceptation in his composition “The Wreck of the Hesperus” (1856): “Her awkward shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board.” Learn more: by, go

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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

go by the board, to Идиома

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

go by the board

go by the board

go by the board

go by the boards

go by the board

ˌgo by the ˈboard

go by the board, to

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