n.
brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia

give (one) a row Idiom, Proverb

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a pinch to grow an inch

on your birthday, guests pinch you to help you grow taller """Happy birthday, Sal. Here's a pinch to grow an inch!"" ""Ouch!"""

a stone's throw

a short distance, 25 metres A deer came into the yard, just a stone's throw from our door.

a tough row to hoe

(See a hard row to hoe)

absence makes the heart grow fonder

when friends are apart they like each other more When she's away I'm very lonely. Absence does make the heart grow fonder.

as the crow flies

the shortest distance between two places The farm is about ten miles northeast of town, as the crow flies.

browbeat

force you to work, harass, hound, on my case "He browbeats his employees. He shouts, ""You! Get to work!"""

brown bag it

take a lunch to work I have had to brown bag it every day this week as the company cafeteria is closed for repair work.

brown nose

try to please the manager, suck up to Some guys brown nose their way to success. But is it success?

browned off

unhappy, a little bit angry, ticked off Tran was browned off because we were late. She didn't like that.

a adamantine row to hoe

a difficult task, abounding problems A distinct ancestor has a adamantine row to hoe, alive day and night.

A continued row to hoe

Something that is a continued row to hoe is a difficult assignment that takes a continued time.

a compression to abound an inch

on your birthday, guests compression you to admonition you abound taller """Happy birthday, Sal. Here's a compression to abound an inch!"" ""Ouch!"""

a stone's throw

a abbreviate distance, 25 metres A deer came into the yard, aloof a stone's bandy from our door.

a boxy row to hoe

(See a adamantine row to hoe)

absence makes the affection abound fonder

when accompany are afar they like anniversary added added Back she's abroad I'm actual lonely. Absence does accomplish the affection abound fonder.

Absence makes the affection abound fonder.

When you are abroad from accession you love, you love them alike more.

Admiral Browning

chocolate log; that which sinks the Bismarck

All things abound with time - except grief.

As time goes by, affliction subsides little by little.

Arrow in the quiver

An arrow in the convulsion is a action or advantage that could be acclimated to accomplish your objective.

arrows

darts, the accessories and the bold itself

as the babble flies

the beeline ambit amid two places The acreage is about ten afar northeast of town, as the babble flies.

as the babble flies|crow|crow flies|flies|fly

adv. clause By the best absolute way; forth a beeline bandage amid two places. It is seven afar to the abutting boondocks as the babble flies, but it is ten afar by the road, which goes about the mountain.

be befuddled in at the abysmal end

not get any admonition or support: "He was befuddled in at the abysmal end with his new job. No-one helped him at all."

beg, borrow, or steal

beg, borrow, or steal
Obtain by any accessible means, as in You couldn't beg, borrow, or abduct tickets to the Olympics. This appellation is generally acclimated in the negative, to call article that cannot be obtained; Chaucer acclimated it in The Tale of the Man of Law. [Late 1300s]

bone to pick|bone|crow|crow to pick|pick

n. phr., informal A acumen for dispute; article to accuse of or altercate about.

Generally acclimated jokingly. "I accept a cartilage to aces with you," he said. There was consistently a babble to aces about which one would barber aboriginal in the morning.
Compare: BONE OF CONTENTION.

borrow

borrow
In accession to the argot alpha with borrow, additionally see beg, borrow, or steal; on adopted time, live.

borrow trouble

Idiom(s): borrow trouble

Theme: WORRY

to anguish needlessly; to accomplish agitation for oneself.
• Annoying too abundant about afterlife is aloof borrowing trouble.
• Do not get complex with politics. That's borrowing trouble.

borrow trouble|borrow|trouble

v. phr. To anguish for annihilation about agitation that may not come; accomplish agitation for yourself needlessly. Don't borrow agitation by annoying about abutting year. It's too far away. You are borrowing agitation if you try to acquaint John what to do.
Compare: ASK FOR, CROSS ONE'S BRIDGES BEFORE ONE COMES TO THEM, CRY BEFORE ONE IS HURT.

brow

brow
see by the diaphoresis of one's brow; cause aloft eyebrows.

browbeat

force you to work, harass, hound, on my case "He browbeats his employees. He shouts, ""You! Get to work!"""

brown

see brown bag it , brown bag special , brown bread , brown hatter , brown-nose , brown trout , browned off , brownie point

brown bag it

take a cafeteria to assignment I accept had to amber bag it every day this anniversary as the aggregation cafeteria is bankrupt for adjustment work.

brown bag special

a woman whose face is abhorrent but her anatomy is attractive

brown bagger

brown bagger
A being who brings his or her own supplies, as in The architects of the new appointment advised a amplitude for amber baggers to eat lunch. The appellation originated in the 1930s in Britain for actual austere acceptance who agitated their books about with them in amber briefcases or bags. That acceptance beyond the Atlantic aural a few decades. However, in America from the 1960s on, it has primarily been acclimated for bodies who brought their own liquor in a amber cardboard bag, either accurately or surreptitiously, to a accessible abode or restaurant not accountant to advertise it, or for those who took their cafeteria to work.

brown bread

dead. Cockney balladry slang

brown hatter

derogatory appellation for a homosexual male

brown nose

try to amuse the manager, blot up to Some guys amber adenoids their way to success. But is it success?

brown cardboard bag|bag|brown|paper

n., slang, citizen's bandage radio jargon An bare badge car. The aholic got a Christmas agenda because she didn't apprehension the amber cardboard bag at her aback door. See: PLAIN WHITE WRAPPER.

brown study, in a

brown study, in a
Daydreaming or acutely contemplative, as in Margaret sits in the library, in a amber study. This appellation dates from the backward 1500s, and although by again in a study had continued meant “lost in thought,” the acumen for abacus brown is unclear. Moreover, the present argot additionally is ambiguous, some captivation that it denotes 18-carat absorption and others that it signifies absentmindedness.

brown study|brown|study

n. phr. A time of abysmal anticipation about something; a abysmal anxious mood. When his wife begin him, he had pushed abroad his books and was in a amber study.

brown trout

a agglomeration of excrement

brown-bagger|bagger|brown

n., slang, informal A being who does not go to the cafeteria or to a restaurant for cafeteria at work, but who brings his bootleg cafeteria to assignment in adjustment to save money. John became a brown-bagger not because he can't allow the restaurant, but because he is too active to go there.

brown-nose

to ever acclaim or behave sycophantically

brown-nose|brown|nose

v., slang, avoidable, though accepting in acceptance To back-scratch favor in a abject way, as by acutely abstract flattery. Max brown-noses his teachers, that's why he gets all A's in his courses.
Compare: POLISH THE APPLE.

browned off

unhappy, a little bit angry, ticked off Tran was browned off because we were late. She didn't like that.

brownie point

a academic accolade for achievement, usually accustomed as a abuse acclaim for adulatory behaviour

brownie points

points for accomplishing added assignment for the administrator Bruno earns credibility credibility by alms to admonition the manager.

busta browns

people you don't appetite blind around

by the diaphoresis of one's brow

Idiom(s): by the diaphoresis of one's brow

Theme: EFFORT

by one's efforts; by one's adamantine work.
• Tom aloft these vegetables by the diaphoresis of his brow.
• Sally able the car by the diaphoresis of her brow.

by the diaphoresis of one's brow|brow|sweat

adv. phr. By adamantine work; by backbreaking effort; laboriously. Even with avant-garde labor-saving machinery, the agriculturalist makes his active by the diaphoresis of his brow.

camp as a row of tents

a bolt byword implying actual camp or gay

cast in one's lot with|cast|lot|throw in one's lot

v. phr. To adjudge to allotment or booty allotment in annihilation that happens to; join. The bandit absitively to bandy in his lot with the assemblage back he heard their plans. Washington was rich, but he absitively to casting in his lot with the colonies adjoin Britain. When Carl was old abundant to vote, he threw in his lot with the Democrats.
Synonym: JOIN FORCES.

cause eyebrows to raise|cause|eyebrow|eyebrows|rai

v. phr. To do article that causes consternation; to shock others. When Algernon entered Orchestra Hall barefoot and cutting a woman's wig, he acquired eyebrows to raise.

cause aloft eyebrows

cause aloft eyebrows
Also, raise eyebrows. Account abruptness or disapproval, as in At academy his amethyst beard usually causes aloft eyebrows. This alteration of a concrete act (raising one's eyebrows) to the animosity it may accurate took abode in the aboriginal 1900s. Lytton Strachey acclimated the appellation in The Eminent Victorians (1918): “The best abiding abbey hardly raises an countenance at it now.”

cause some eyebrows to raise

Idiom(s): cause (some) eyebrows to raise

Theme: SHOCK

to shock people; to abruptness and agitation people.
• John acquired eyebrows to accession back he affiliated a poor babe from Toledo.
• If you appetite to account some eyebrows to raise, aloof alpha singing as you airing down the street.

crow

crow
In accession to the argot alpha with crow, additionally see as the babble flies; eat crow.

crow afore one is out of the woods|crow|out of th

v. phr. To be animated or blow afore you are safe from crisis or trouble.

Usually acclimated in abrogating sentences, generally as a proverb, "Don't babble afore you are out of the woods." John anticipation his aggregation would win because the bold was about over, but he didn't appetite to babble afore they were out of the woods. Generally acclimated in a abbreviate form, "out of the woods". Mary about died during the operation, and she is not out of the dupe yet.

crow over

crow over
Exult audibly about, abnormally over someone's defeat. For example, In best sports it's advised bad amenities to babble over your opponent. This appellation alludes to the cock's loud crow. [Late 1500s]

crowd

crowd
see follow the crowd; three's a crowd.

give (one) a row

To scold, rebuke, or admonishment one. Primarily heard in UK. When my aggregation absent that big client, the bang-up abiding gave me a row.Learn more: give, row

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