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)

take the bit between the teeth, to Idiom, Proverb

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 the bit amid the teeth

To activate to do article with decisive, adamant resolve; to act in an blind and assertive manner. A advertence to a horse that is no best beneath the rider's ascendancy because the bit (part of the accoutrement acclimated to adviser it) is out of abode in its mouth. The CEO started blank the board's demands and took the bit amid the teeth, active the aggregation the way she saw fit. In animosity of my counsel, my audience took the bit in their teeth and went accessible with their accusations.Learn more: between, bit, take, teeth

take the bit amid the teeth, to

To be stubbornly self-willed; to advance abreast restraints and go one’s own way. The affinity here, to a horse that catches the bit in its teeth so that the addition or disciplinarian has no ascendancy over it, dates from the sixteenth century. John Lyly acclimated it in his Pappe with an Hatchet (ca. 1589): “But if like a resty iade [restive jade, or nag] thou become booty the bit in thy mouth, and again run over barrier and ditch, thou shalt be burst as Prosper bankrupt his horses.” The announcement is acclimated beneath generally today and may be obsolescent.Learn more: between, bit, 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 somewhere by storm take soundings take steps take steps to (do something) take steps to do something take stock take stock (of something) take stock in take stock in (something) take temperature take ten take the take the (long) count take the air take the bad with the good take the bait take the ball and run (with it) take the ball and run with it take the ball before the bound take the bark off take the bear by the tooth take the bench take the biscuit take the bit between (one's) teeth take the bit between the teeth take the bit between the teeth, to take the bit in (one's) mouth take the bit in (one's) teeth take the bit in one's mouth take the bit in teeth take the bitter with the sweet take the blame take the blame (for something) take the body take the bread out from people's mouths take the bread out of (one's) mouth take the bread out of people's mouths take the bread out of someone's mouth take the Browns to the Super Bowl take the brunt of (something) take the bull by its horns take the bull by the horns take the bull by the horns, to take the cake take the cake, to take the cash and let the credit go take the chance (to do something) take the checkered flag take the chequered flag take the chill off take the chill off (of) (something or some place)