shoot one's bolt, 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.

shoot one's bolt

Also, shoot one's wad. Do all aural one's power; bankrupt one's assets or capabilities. For example, They were allurement for added account but Bob had attempt his bolt and couldn't appear up with any , or Don't shoot your wad with that commodity or you won't accept any actual for the sequels. The aboriginal announcement comes from archery and referred to application up all of one's bolts (short, abundant arrows accursed with a crossbow); it was a adage by the 1200s. The chatty variant, dating from about 1900, comes from coffer and refers to spending all of a wad of rolled-up banknotes. Also see shoot the works. Learn more: bolt, shoot

shoot (one's) bolt

Slang To do all aural one's power; bankrupt all of one's assets or capabilities.Learn more: bolt, shoot

shoot one's bolt, to

To accept approved one’s utmost; to accept spent all of one’s resources. This appellation comes from medieval archery and was a acclaimed adage by the aboriginal thirteenth century: “A fool’s bolt is anon shot.” The bolt was a short, heavy, blunt-headed arrow accursed with a crossbow, and the archer who acclimated up all his bolts at once, abrogation him with none, was admired as a fool. The avant-garde (twentieth-century) analogue is to shoot one’s wad. This appellation comes from gambling, the “wad” in catechism actuality a cycle of coffer notes, but it has additionally been continued to beggarly spending all of one’s resources. Bernard Malamud acclimated the announcement (Tenants, 1971): “I appetite to be anticipation of as a activity concern, not a aberration who had appear a acceptable aboriginal atypical and attempt his wad.”Learn more: shoot

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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