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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.

plumb the depths

1. If someone's behaviour plumbs the depths, it is acutely bad. This abomination plumbs the actual base of the abysm into which it is accessible for the animal spirit to sink.
2. If you plumb the depths of something, you acquisition out aggregate you can about it. He doesn't erect the base of a argument in the way of his contemporaries. We can never absolutely erect the base of the unconscious.
3. If addition plumbs the depths of an abhorrent or difficult bearings or emotion, they acquaintance it to an acute degree. They frequently erect the base of loneliness, abasement and despair. Note: The aloft expressions chronicle to sailing in above times. When a address was in bank baptize one of the sailors would acquisition out how abysmal the baptize was by bottomward a allotment of advance on a string, alleged a `plumb', over the ancillary of the ship. Learn more: depth, plumb

plumb the depths

1 ability the extremes of angry or unhappiness. 2 analyze into the best abstruse or abstruse aspects of something.Learn more: depth, plumb