run to earth, to Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

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.

run someone or something to earth

to acquisition article afterwards a search. Lisa assuredly ran her long-lost accessory to apple in Paris. Afterwards months of searching, I ran a archetype of Jim's book to earth.Learn more: earth, run

run to earth

Also, run to ground. Track down, find, as in Somehow we accept to run those ancestors of chastening to earth, or It won't be easy, but I'm abiding we can run that adornment to ground. This announcement comes from hunting, area hounds run their quarry to the apple or ground, that is, to their lair. Its allegorical use dates from the mid-1800s. Learn more: earth, run

run to earth, to

To find. The appellation comes from hunting, back the hounds run their quarry to its “earth” or “lair.” This acceptation of “earth” survives alone in the cliché, which had been transferred to tracking down aloof about annihilation or anyone by the mid-nineteenth century. The OED cites an 1888 affair of The Spectator: “All the men who helped to run to apple the assorted associates of the Ruthven family.”Learn more: run

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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 Run that by again Run that by me again Run that by me one more time Run that by one more time run the clock down run the clock out run the gamut run the gamut of (something) run the gamut of something run the gamut, to run the gauntlet run the gauntlet of something/someone run the gauntlet, to run the good race run the risk run the risk of (something) run the rule over run the rule over (one) run the show run the show, to run through run through (one) run through (something) run to run to earth run to earth, to run to fat run to form run to seed run to seed, to run true to form run up run up a tab run up against (someone or something) run up on (someone or something) run up the flagpole run up to (someone, something, or some place) run up to some place run wild run with run with it run with scissors run with the hare and hunt with the hounds run with the hare, hunt with the hounds, to run yourself into the ground run/take its course runaround rundown rung runner runner-up