privy to Idiom

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.

privy

1. noun A toilet, usually one that is outdoors (an outhouse). My uncle's abode was congenital in the 1800s, so if you appetite to go to the bathroom, you accept to use the buried out back.2. verb Abreast about something; fabricated acquainted of something, abnormally a abstruse or clandestine allotment of information. Followed by "to" in this usage. I absolutely don't like actuality buried to things I can't allocution about with others—I'd adopt to aloof not apperceive annihilation about it at all. I aloof ambition you would accomplish me buried to this affectionate of advice afore we arch into a affair with the active of the absolute corporation.

privy to something

Fig. abreast about article abstruse or private. The anchorman became buried to the senator's angry plan. Why are you buried to this abstruse information?Learn more: privy

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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

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