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nuts Идиома

bet you dollars to donuts

"I will bet dollars, you bet donuts; give you odds" Ben is the fastest runner. I'll bet you dollars to donuts he wins.

drive you nuts

cause you to feel crazy, drive you crazy (see drive me crazy) Working for Harry will drive you nuts. He's a perfectionist.

everything from soup to nuts

a lot of food or things, a variety of groceries His shopping cart was full. He had everything from soup to nuts.

from soup to nuts

(See everything from soup to nuts)

go nuts

become insane, go bonkers, go crazy If another mosquito bites me, I'll go nuts!

in a nutshell

briefly I tried to explain the problem to him in a nutshell but there still wasn

nuts

crazy.

nuts about

likes a lot, passionate, crazy about Helen is nuts about Mozart. She loves his piano concertos.

clagnuts

faecal remnants adhering to the anal hairs or fur

deez nuts

(interj) an exclamation indicating sarcastic disbelief or as a rebuttle against someone giving you a hard time:"You got all As! Deez nuts!"

nuts and bolts

Idiom(s): nuts and bolts (of sth)

Theme: DETAILS

the basic facts about something; the practical details of something. (Fixed order.)
• Tom knows all about the nuts and bolts of the chemical process.
• Ann is familiar with the nuts and bolts of public relations.

Dollars for doughnuts

(USA) If something is dollars for doughnuts, it is a sure bet or certainty.

Polishing peanuts

To work very hard at something for little or no return. In other words, wasting time on work which will not yield reasonable value.

be nuts about|nut|nuts

v. phr. To be enthusiastic or very keen about someone or something; be greatly infatuated with someone. Hermione is nuts about modern music. "I am nuts about you, Helen," Jim said. "Please let's get married!"

in a nutshell|nutshell

adv. phr., informal In a few words; briefly, without telling all about it. We are in a hurry, so I'll give you the story in a nutshell. In a nutshell, the car is no bargain.
Compare: IN SHORT.

nuts|nut

v. phr., informal To irritate, frustrate, or tickle someone's fancy so badly that they think they are going insane. "Stop teasing me, Mary," John said. "You are driving me nuts." "You are driving me bananas with all your crazy riddles," Steve said.

nuts and bolts of|bolt|bolts|nut|nuts

n. phr. The basic facts or important details of something. "Ted will he an excellent trader," his millionaire grandfather said, "once he learns the nuts and bolts of the profession."

pull one's chestnuts out of the fire|chestnut|ches

To do someone else a great favor which they don't really deserve, doing oneself a disfavor in the process. Small countries often have to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for their more powerful neighbors.

dollars to doughnuts, it's

dollars to doughnuts, it's
It's a virtual certainty, as in It's dollars to doughnuts that the team will make the playoffs. This metaphoric term pits dollars against doughnuts as in a bet. [Colloquial; late 1800s]

nuts about, be

nuts about, be
Be extremely enthusiastic; also, be extremely fond of. For example, Ellen is nuts about opera, or Kevin has been nuts about Megan since he met her. This seemingly new slangy expression began life in the late 1700s as nuts on or upon; about began to be substituted about 1940.

nuts and bolts, the

nuts and bolts, the
The essential or basic aspects of something, as in They have lofty goals but don't specify the nuts and bolts of how to achieve them. This expression alludes to basic working components of machinery. [Mid-1900s]

nutshell

nutshell
see in a nutshell.

More Idioms/Phrases

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