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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.

spread to (someone, something, or some place)

1. To move, disperse, or be broadcast to addition affair or place. Contact me as anon as accessible if the adventurous spreads to any added allotment of your body. We charge to accommodate the oil discharge afore it spreads to the river.2. To account article to move, disperse, or be broadcast to addition person, place, or thing. I consistently put a bulge of adulate in the average the toast, let it get soft, again advance it to the edges. Please awning your aperture back you sneeze, or you'll advance bacilli to anybody in the house!3. Of a action or state, to extend to and affect or absorb some added place. The movement acquired a basement in France, again advance to added countries about the world. The agitation began in burghal L.A., but bound advance to the blow of the city.4. To account some action or accompaniment to reach, affect, or absorb some added place. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is acclimated amid "spread" and "over." The agent said that we should be aggravating to advance capitalism to every bend of the world. The administration began overextension war to its adjoining countries in a bid to ascendancy the absolute region.Learn more: spread

spread to someone or something

to aggrandize or extend to ability addition or something. The catching assuredly advance to me and my family. The business arrest advance to the West Coast.Learn more: spread

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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