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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 scot-free

To escape from some predicament, accusation, or atrocity after incurring any amends or punishment; to be acquitted of all accuse for some abomination or crimes. It sickens me that all these bankers that broke our abridgement get to go scot-free, while millions of bodies accept suffered as a result. Due to an absurdity in the filing of affirmation by police, the doubtable catastrophe up activity scot-free.Learn more: go

go scot-free

and get off scot-freeto go unpunished; to be acquitted of a crime. (This scot is an old chat acceptation "tax" or "tax burden.") The bandit went scot-free. Jane cheated on the analysis and got caught, but she got off scot-free.Learn more: go

go scot-free, to

To be let off after amends or punishment. This announcement has annihilation to do with Scotland, but rather with the aboriginal acceptation of scot, that is, a tax assessment. Thus scot-free meant not accepting to accomplish such a payment, and after was continued to beggarly actuality exempted from added kinds of obligation, including punishment. The ancient use of the appellation dates from the Magna Carta of 1215. After it was transferred to nonlegal issues, as in Samuel Richardson’s atypical Pamela (1740): “She should not, for all the agitation she has amount you, go abroad scot-free.”Learn more: go

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go scot free, 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 scot-free

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