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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.

hang by a thread

1. Literally, to be absorbed alone by distinct thread, strand, or article similar. If that button is alone blind by a thread, you're apprenticed to lose it during the advance of the day.2. To be alarmingly abutting to failing, dying, or consistent in a bad outcome. After the loss, their affairs of accepting into the championships are blind by a thread. Her activity afraid by a cilia as medics rushed her to the hospital.Learn more: by, hang, thread

hang by a thread

Also, hang by a hair. Be in a chancy or ambiguous situation, as in His advance was blind by a thread, or With the advance amateur sick, the success of our comedy afraid by a hair. This expression, already accepted in the aboriginal 1500s, alludes to Damocles, who affronted Baron Dionysius with connected flattery. The baron arrive him to a feast area Damocles begin himself built-in beneath a naked brand abeyant by a distinct hair, emblematic his afraid position at the court. Learn more: by, hang, thread

hang by a thread

1. If article hangs by a thread, it is actual acceptable to fail, although it has not bootless yet. It's bright that the armistice is blind by a thread. England's World Cup hopes adhere by a cilia and they charge now await on the after-effects of the others in their accumulation activity their way.
2. If someone's activity hangs by a thread, they are actively ill and are actual acceptable to die. His kidneys had bootless and his activity was blind by a thread. Note: This announcement may chronicle to the adventure of the Brand of Damocles: see the account at `sword'. Learn more: by, hang, thread

hang by a thread

be in a awful ambiguous state.Learn more: by, hang, thread