turn one's back on, 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.

turn one's aback on

Deny, reject; additionally abandon, forsake. For example, I can't about-face my aback on my own daughter, no amount what she's done, or He artlessly angry his aback on them and never gave it a additional thought. [c. 1400] Additionally see when one's aback is turned. Learn more: back, on, turn

turn one's aback on, to

To reject; also, to run abroad (from a fight). Emerson acclimated it in the aboriginal faculty in his acclaimed Transcendentalist poem, “Brahma” (1857): “Find me, and about-face thy aback on heaven.” Tennyson acclimated it in the additional faculty in “The Revenge”: “Let us blast these dogs of Seville . . . For I never turn’d my aback aloft Don or devil yet.” The additional allegorical acceptation is the earlier one, dating from about 1400; the aboriginal began to be acclimated about 1600. Learn more: back, turn

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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 turn into (someone or something) turn into a pumpkin turn it up turn King's/Queen's evidence turn nasty turn nose up at turn of events turn of fate turn of phrase turn of speed turn of the century turn of the screw turn of the tide turn off turn on turn on (one's) heel turn on a dime turn on a sixpence turn on one's heel turn on the heat turn on the waterworks turn on your heel turn on, tune in, drop out turn one’s toes up turn one's back on turn one's back on, to turn one's hand to turn one's head turn one's stomach turn onto turn onto (someone or something) turn onto someone/something turn out turn out all right turn out of turn out to be turn out to be (someone or something) turn over turn over a new leaf turn over a new leaf, to turn over in mind turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one) turn over to turn over to (someone or something) turn round turn round/around and do something turn some place inside out turn somebody's head turn somebody's stomach turn someone off turn someone on