be as deaf as a post Idiom

from pillar to post

from one problem to another After getting fired, he went from pillar to post - more bad luck.

keep you posted

send or phone the news to you, inform you I'll be in Korea for six months, but I'll keep you posted.

postal

crazy, insane; so to go postal: to go crazy

postage and handling

Idiom(s): postage and handling

Theme: POSTAL

charges for sending [something] through the mail and for wrapping and handling the item. (Fixed order.)
• The cost of the book was quite reasonable, but the postage and handling was outrageous.
• They did not charge postage and handling because I prepaid the order.

keep sb posted

Idiom(s): keep sb posted

Theme: COMMUNICATION

to keep someone informed (of what is happening); to keep someone up to date.
• If the price of corn goes up, I need to know. Please keep me posted.
• Keep her posted about the patient's status.

between you, me, and the lamppost

Idiom(s): between you, me, and the lamppost

Theme: SECRECY

secretively, just between you and me. (Fixed order.)
• Just between you, me, and the lamppost, Fred is leaving school.
• Now don't tell anyone else. This is just between you, me, and the lamppost.

Answers on a postcard

This idiom can be used to suggest that the answer to something is very obvious or that the person would really like to hear what people think.

Deaf as a post

Someone who is as deaf as a post is unable to hear at all.

Keep posted

If you keep posted about something, you keep up-to-date with information and developments.

Move the goalposts

When people move the goalposts, they change the standards required for something to their advantage.

be as deafened as a post

To be clumsy to apprehend able-bodied or at all. I achievement grandpa wears his audition aid to banquet tonight because he's as deafened as a column after it. After years of alert to loud bedrock music, I'm deafened as a post.Learn more: deaf, post

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More Idioms/Phrases

More holes than Swiss cheese More than one string to their bow More than one way to skin a cat Mountain to climb Move mountains Move the goalposts Mover and shaker Muck or nettles Mud in the fire Mud in your eye Mud-slinging Muddy the waters

English Vocalbulary

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