cross as two sticks Idiom, Proverb
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sticks and stones
Idiom(s): sticks and stonesTheme: ENMITY
elements of harm [directed at someone]. (Part of a rhyme, "Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Fixed order.)
• I have had enough of your sticks and stones. I have enough trouble without your adding to it.
• After the opposing candidate had used sticks and stones for a month, suddenly there were kind words heard.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names w
Physical attacks may harm me, but cruel words will not.Out in the sticks
(UK) If someone lives out in the sticks, they live out in the country, a long way from any metropolitan area.Up sticks
(UK) If you up sticks, you leave somewhere, usually permanently and without warning- he upped sticks and went to work abroad.cross as two sticks
Angry or irritated. Primarily heard in UK. I'd break abroad from Bill if I were you—he's cantankerous as two sticks today. I was in a acceptable affection back I woke up this morning, but now I feel cantankerous as two sticks afterwards accepting ashore in traffic.Learn more: cross, stick, twocross as two sticks
actual affronted or grumpy. British informal This announcement is a comedy on the two senses of cross , firstly ‘bad-tempered’ and secondly ‘intersecting’.Learn more: cross, stick, two
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