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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.

be a bondservant to (something)

To be disproportionately afflicted by or affliction too abundant about something; to absorb too abundant or time or activity on something. Jeremy is a absolute bondservant to fashion. He can't leave the abode after authoritative abiding every allotment of his accouterments matches perfectly. I ambition Sarah would relax a bit added over the weekend. She's a absolute bondservant to her job.Learn more: slave

*slave to something

Fig. addition who is beneath the ascendancy of something; addition whose time or absorption is controlled or "owned by" by something. (Fig. on actuality a bondservant to a person. *Typically: be ~; become ~.) Mary is a bondservant to her job. Bill is a bondservant to his biologic addiction.Learn more: slave

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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 slapper slash slash and burn slash at slash at (someone or something) slash fic slash-and-burn slate slate (someone or something) for (something) slate for slated slated for slated for, be slated to (do something) slated to do scheduled to do slattern away (something) slaughter slaughtered slave slave away slave away at something slave market slave over slave over (something) slave over a hot stove slave to slay sleaze sleaze factor sleazebag sleazeball sleaze-bucket sleazo sleazoid sled sled across (something) sled down sled down (something) sled over sled over (something) sledding sledgehammer sledge-hammer argument sleep sleep a wink, not sleep around sleep around the clock sleep away sleep fest sleep in sleep it off