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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.

tear one's beard (out)

Fig. to be anxious, frustrated, or angry. I was so nervous, I was about to breach my hair. I had bigger get home. My parents will be disturbing their beard out.Learn more: hair, tear

tear one's hair

Also, tear out one's hair. Be abundantly agitated or distressed, as in I'm disturbing my beard over these errors. This announcement alludes to actually disturbing out one's beard in a aberration of affliction or anger, a acceptance dating from a.d. 1000. Today it is about hyperbolic. Learn more: hair, tear

tear (one's) hair

To be abundantly agitated or distressed.Learn more: hair, tear

tear one's hair, to

To appearance acute anger, frustration, or grief. In age-old times it was accepted to appearance affliction by actually affairs at one’s hair. The convenance was referred to by Homer in the Iliad, with advertence to Agamemnon, and appears in added age-old writings. Shakespeare acclimated it in Troilus and Cressida (4.2), “Tear my ablaze hair, and blemish my accepted cheeks,” and Thackeray in The Rose and the Ring (1855), “Tearing her hair, arrant and affliction herself.” Today we are added apt to use it for acrimony or vexation, and absolutely figuratively.Learn more: tear

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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 tear apart tear around tear at tear away tear between tear down tear from tear from (someone or something) tear hair tear into tear into (some place) tear into (someone or something) tear into a place tear into some place tear into someone tear into something tear it tear limb from limb tear loose tear loose from (someone or something) tear loose from someone/something tear off tear off of (someone or something) tear on tear one's hair tear one's hair, to tear out tear out (one's) hair tear out of tear out of (something or some place) tear round tear somebody limb from limb tear somebody off a strip tear somebody/something to pieces/shreds tear someone a new asshole tear someone a new one tear someone limb from limb tear someone off a strip tear someone or something to shreds tear someone up tear someone/something apart tear someone/something up tear the heart out of (something) tear the rag off the bush tear through tear through (something) tear to pieces tear up tear up the pea patch tear your hair tear your hair out