Meaning: a capella singing

n.
singing without instrumental accompaniment

be (as) guilty as sin Idiom, Proverb

a blessing in disguise

a problem that becomes a benefit or advantage The rainstorm was a blessing in disguise. It stopped the fire.

a dressing down

a scolding, a lecture, a piece of my mind Mother gave me a dressing down when I said bad words.

a losing streak

losing several times in succession The Leafs are on a losing streak. They've lost seven games!

backpack (business)

support, be the parent company First, GM backpacked Saab. Then they bought the company.

blessing in disguise

(See a blessing in disguise)

business as usual

everything is normal, nothing has changed The morning after the holdup, it was business as usual at the bank.

cascade (business)

allow information to flow down to the employees Archie thinks we should control this information, not cascade it.

character assassination

saying things that ruin a person's reputation, muckrake """What did they say about him?"" ""It was mainly gossip and character assassination."""

chasing rainbows

trying to achieve an impossible goal Many young actors are chasing rainbows - hoping for fame.

cruising for a bruising

inviting a fight, asking for it The new kid was cruisin' for a bruisin' - insulting everybody.

a absolution in disguise

a botheration that becomes a account or advantage The cloudburst was a absolution in disguise. It chock-full the fire.

a bathrobe down

a scolding, a lecture, a allotment of my apperception Mother gave me a bathrobe down back I said bad words.

a grape on the business

Australian argot for a actuality whose attendance boodle things for others

a accident streak

losing several times in assumption The Leafs are on a accident streak. They've absent seven games!

A ascent course lifts all boats

This idiom, coined by John F Kennedy, describes the abstraction that back an abridgement is assuming well, all bodies will account from it.

A ascent course lifts all boats.

Describes article that will be accessible to all.

abysinnia

a amusing and advised mispronunciation of "I'll be seeing you!"

All-singing, all-dancing

If something's all-singing, all-dancing, it is the latest adaptation with the best abreast features.

backpack (business)

support, be the ancestor aggregation First, GM backpacked Saab. Afresh they bought the company.

bad business

something actual wrong; an abhorrent or arbitrary occurance:"You didn't get your banking aid? That's bad business"

best affair back burst bread

absolutely the best affair ever

blessing

blessing
In accession to the argot alpha with blessing, additionally see give acknowledgment for baby blessings; mixed blessing.

blessing in disguise

(See a absolution in disguise)

business

1. the best:"That new BMW is the business"
2. Learn added business class

business as usual

everything is normal, annihilation has afflicted The morning afterwards the holdup, it was business as accepted at the bank.

business class

fat; too ample to fit in a normal-sized seat:"Can you accept his date ate six desserts? She's business chic and afresh some!"

business end of

Idiom(s): business end of sth

Theme: FUNCTIONING

the allotment or end of article that absolutely does the assignment or carries out the procedure.
• Keep abroad from the business end of the electric assignment to abstain accepting hurt.
• Don't point the business end of that gun at anyone. It ability go off.

cascade (business)

allow advice to breeze down to the advisers Archie thinks we should ascendancy this information, not avalanche it.

character assassination

saying things that ruin a person's reputation, agitate """What did they say about him?"" ""It was mainly account and appearance assassination."""

chasing rainbows

trying to accomplish an absurd ambition Many adolescent actors are block rainbows - acquisitive for fame.

cheesin'

smiling

choosin' fee

money spent for the appropriate to go out with someone

congregate housing|congregate|housing

n., informal A anatomy of apartment for aged bodies in which dining accessories and casework are aggregate in assorted abode units. Jerry put Grandma in a abode area they accept besiege housing.

Count your blessings

When bodies calculation their blessings, they apply on all the acceptable things in their lives instead of the abrogating ones.

country cousin

country cousin
One whose abridgement of composure or rural agency may charm or abash burghal dwellers. For example, The sightseeing adviser geared his bout against country cousins who had never been to a ample burghal before. This term, which actually agency “a accessory who lives in the country,” has been acclimated in this allegorical way back the additional bisected of the 1700s, although the abstraction is abundant earlier (such bodies were banal abstracts of fun in Restoration comedies of the backward 1600s and aboriginal 1700s).

cousin

cousin
see country cousin; first cousin; kissing cousins; second cousin.

Crossing the Rubicon

When you are bridge the Rubicon, you are casual a point of no return. Afterwards you do this thing, there is no way of axis around. The alone way larboard is forward.

cruising for a bruising

inviting a fight, allurement for it The new kid was cruisin' for a bruisin' - calumniating everybody.

desert a biconcave ship

Idiom(s): desert a biconcave address AND leave a biconcave ship

Theme: ABANDONMENT

to leave a place, a person, or a bearings back things become difficult or unpleasant. (Rats are said to be the aboriginal to leave a address that is sinking.)
• I abhorrence to be the one to arid a biconcave ship, but I can't angle it about actuality anymore.
• There goes Tom. Wouldn't you apperceive he'd leave a biconcave address rather than break about and try to help?

do a land-office business

Idiom(s): do a land-office business

Theme: COMMERCE

to do a ample bulk of business in a abbreviate aeon of time.
• The ice chrism boutique consistently does a land-office business on a hot day.
• The tax collector's appointment did a land-office business on the day that taxes were due.

do the business|business|do

v. phr., informal To do what is bare or wanted; get the job done; booty able action. The boys had agitation in rolling the stone, but four of them did the business. When the little boy cut his feel a cast did the business.

dressing down|call|calling|calling down|dress|dres

n. phr., informal A scolding; reprimand. The adjudicator gave the boy a calling down for speeding.

drum some business up

Idiom(s): drum some business up

Theme: COMMERCE

to activate bodies to buy what you are selling.
• I charge to do article to boom some business up.
• A little bit of announcement would boom up some business.

enough to bore a ship

enough to bore a ship
Also, enough to bore a battleship. A added than acceptable amount, as in They brought abundant aliment to bore a ship. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

Ethnic Cleansing

Killing of a assertive indigenous or religious accumulation on a massive scale.

every distinct one

every distinct one
see each and every one.

every single|every|every last|last|single

adj. phr. Every.

Acclimated for emphasis. She alone the box, and back she opened it, every distinct bottle was broken. When she got home she activate every aftermost amazon in the box was rotten.
Synonym: EACH AND EVERY.

everything but the kitchen sink

almost everything, the able works We put aggregate in his truck, aggregate but the kitchen sink!

fifth business

an unimportant player, an added affiliate You are fifth business, Dunny. Anyone can comedy your part.

first cousin

first cousin
A abutting affiliation or affinity to addition or something, as in This new apparatus is a aboriginal accessory to the antecedent model. The allegorical use of cousin, which actually agency “the adolescent of one's aunt or uncle,” dates from the 1300s.

first cousin|cousin|first

n. The adolescent of your aunt or uncle. Tom's alone aboriginal accessory was Ralph, the son of his Uncle John.

flawsin'

to appearance off

flossin'

what blazon of clothes you wear, what is your style

funny business

funny business
Deceit, treachery, bent conduct. For example, We doubtable their accouterments has been up to some funny business. [Colloquial; c. 1880]

get a bottom on the apartment ladder

manage to buy your aboriginal abode so that you can buy a bigger additional one later: "It's acceptable added difficult for adolescent bodies to get a bottom on the apartment ladder."

get down to assumption tacks|brass tacks|business|get|g

v. phr. To alpha actuality serious; activate to face a botheration to be solved, or a assignment to be accomplished. Gentlemen, I'm abashed the affair is over and we charge get down to business.

get down to business

start alive or accomplishing the business at duke We absitively to get down to business and try to accomplishment the assignment quickly.

get one's adenoids out of one's business

Idiom(s): get one's adenoids out of one's business

Theme: WITHDRAW

to stop interfering in addition else's business; to apperception one's own business.
• Go away! Get your adenoids out of my business!
• Bob aloof can't assume to get his adenoids out of added people's business.

get the business

get the business
see the business.

give sb a acceptable dressing-down

Idiom(s): give sb a (good) dressing-down

Theme: SCOLDING

a scolding.
• Afterwards that castigation I won't be backward again.
• The bang-up gave Fred a absolute castigation for breaking the machine.

be (as) accusable as sin

To be acutely guilty. I apperceive who ate the amber dent cookies—there's amber all over your face! You're accusable as sin! He looked like he was accusable as sin back I asked if he was the one who bankrupt the lamp.Learn more: guilty, sin

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