lead by the nose, to Идиома

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.

lead someone by the nose

1. Fig. to force addition to go about (with you); to advance addition by coercion. John had to advance Tom by the adenoids to get him to the opera. I'll go, but you'll accept to advance me by the nose.
2. Fig. to adviser addition actual anxiously and slowly. (As if the actuality were not actual smart.) He will never acquisition his way through the tax anatomy unless you advance him by the nose. Don't advance me by the nose! I'm coming!Learn more: by, lead, nose

lead by the nose

Dominate or ascendancy someone, as in "The Moor ... will affectionately be led by the adenoids as asses are" (Shakespeare, Othello, 1:3). This announcement alludes to an beastly actuality led by a arena anesthetized through its nostrils. [Late 1500s] Learn more: by, lead, nose

lead by the nose, to

To dominate. Although this phrase, which alludes to an beastly led by a arena anesthetized through its nostrils, occurs in a hardly altered anatomy in the Bible (Isaiah 37:29), its aboriginal use in English appears in a adaptation of Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods (ca. a.d. 170), cited by Erasmus in Adagia. By the sixteenth aeon it had been transferred to animal beings. Arthur Golding’s adaptation of Calvin’s writings (1583) states it as, “Men . . . ache themselves to be led by the adenoids like animal beasts.” Learn more: by, lead

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