Meaning: 12-tone music

n.
a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)

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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.

take a backseat

1. To be accustomed a lower priority. Unfortunately, I had the flu aftermost week, so aggregate abroad about the abode had to booty a aback seat.2. To agreeably booty a beneath arresting role in some situation. I took a aback bench during the presentation because I knew you could handle it.Learn more: backseat, take

take a backseat (to addition or something)

Fig. to become beneath important than addition or article else. My appointment had to booty a backseat to football during the playoffs. Jimmy consistently took a backseat to his earlier brother, Bill, until Bill went abroad to college.Learn more: backseat, take

take a backseat, to

To absorb an inferior or almost abstruse position. Equating the backseat of a agent with inferiority dates from mid-nineteenth aeon America. Max Beerbohm acclimated the amount of accent in Around Theatres (1902): “He brought on a bazaar advance . . . and Oxford had to booty a aback seat.”Learn more: take

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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 take (something) out of context take (something) out on (someone or something) take (something) personally take (something) public take (something) sitting down take (something) slow take (something) the wrong way take (something) through (one's) head take (something) through the nose take (something) to be (something) take (something) to extremes take (something) to heart take (something) to the grave take (something) to the next level take (something) to the street(s) take (something) too far take (something) under advisement take (something) under consideration take (something) up with (one) take (something) upon (oneself) take (something) with a grain of salt take (something) with a pinch of salt take (the) roll take a back seat take a backseat take a backseat, to take a bath take a bath on (something) take a bath on something take a bath, to take a bawling out take a bead on (someone or something) take a beating take a bite of the reality sandwich take a bite out of take a bite out of (something) take a bite out of something take a blind bit of notice take a bow take a break take a breath take a breather take a butcher's take a Captain Cook take a chainsaw to (something) take a chance take a chance on take a chance on (someone or something) take a chill pill take a cold shower take a collection up