Significato: acenesthesia

n. acenestesia (disturbo psichico che si esprime nella perdita della sensazione fisica del corpo)

foul one s own nest Idioma

feather your nest

make a comfortable place, prepare your future place, nest egg Charles became a professor and began to feather his nest at the University of Manitoba.

honesty is the best policy

telling the truth is the best plan, honesty pays off Above the teacher's desk is this sign: Honesty is the best policy.

keep you honest

keep you from lying, cause you to be truthful Your child's questions will keep you honest. You can't lie to kids.

nest egg

money for retirement, life savings After selling the farm, they had their nest egg - about $200,000.

to be perfectly honest

to tell you the truth, to tell you exactly how I feel, as a matter of fact """Your cat's up in the tree again."" ""To be perfectly honest, I don't care. Let him come down alone."""

feather one's nest

1．use for yourself money and power，esp．from a public office 营私；饱私囊
He used his position and in fluence to feather his nest．他利用自己的地位和权势谋取私利。
She may do something for you，but she'll be feathering her own nest at the same time．她会为你做些好事，但同时她会从中捞些好处。
Before liberation，many officials feathered their nests through corruption．解放前，许多官吏通过贪污中饱私囊。
2． make one's home pleasant and comfortable；decorate one's house装饰家庭
Furniture stores welcome young couples who want to feather their nests．家俱店很欢迎想装饰房屋的年轻夫妇光临。

in earnest

serious（ly）认真的／地
Her parents thought the girl was joking when she said she wanted to be a scientist，but she was in earnest．这女孩说她想当一名科学家，她父母认为她是在开玩笑，但她却是认真的。
Surely you are not in earnest in saying that，are you？你说那话不是当真的，是吗？
Did you say it in earnest？你那样讲是当真的吗？

stir up a hornet's nest

Idiom(s): stir up a hornet's nest

Theme: TROUBLE

to create trouble or difficulties. (Informal.)
• What a mess you have made of things. You've really stirred up a hornet's nest.
• Bill stirred up a hornet's nest when he discovered the theft.

honest-to-goodness

Idiom(s): honest-to-goodness AND honest-to- God; honest-to-Pete

Theme: TRUTH

truthful; genuine.
• Is that an honest-to-goodness leather jacket, or is it vinyl?
• It's honest-to-goodness vinyl.

Honest to goodness

Idiom(s): Honest to goodness, AND Honest to God.; Honest to Pete.

Theme: TRUTH

I speak the truth. (Some people may object to the use of God in this phrase.)
• Did he really say that? Honest to goodness?
• Honest to Pete, I’ve been to the moon.
• I've been there, too—honest to God.

a love-nest

the abode area two lovers live: "They fabricated a love-nest in the old basement flat."

anesthetic

anesthetic
anesthetic to
butterfingers of activity or responding to

come by honestly|come|honestly

v. phr., informal To accede (a characteristic) from your parents. Joe comes by his hot atmosphere honestly; his ancestor is the aforementioned way.

come by sth honestly

Idiom(s): come by sth honestly

Theme: ACQUISITION

to accede something—a appearance trait—from one's parents.
• I apperceive I'm mean. I came by it honestly, though.
• She came by her affection honestly.

Cuckoo in the nest

Is an affair or a problem, etc, is a cuckoo in the nest, it grows bound and crowds out aggregate else.

earnest

earnest
see in earnest.

empty nest

empty nest
The home of parents whose accouchement accept developed up and confused out. For example, Now that they had an abandoned nest, Jim and Jane opened a bed-and-breakfast. This expression, alluding to a backup from which babyish birds accept flown, gave acceleration to such accompanying ones as empty-nester, for a ancestor whose accouchement had confused out, and empty-nest syndrome, for the accompaniment of apperception of parents whose accouchement had left. [c. 1970]

feather one's nest

1．use for yourself money and power，esp．from a accessible appointment 营私；饱私囊
He acclimated his position and in fluence to calamus his nest．他利用自己的地位和权势谋取私利。
She may do article for you，but she'll be feathering her own backup at the aforementioned time．她会为你做些好事，但同时她会从中捞些好处。
Before liberation，many admiral feathered their nests through corruption．解放前，许多官吏通过贪污中饱私囊。
2． accomplish one's home affable and comfortable；decorate one's house装饰家庭
Furniture food acceptable adolescent couples who appetite to calamus their nests．家俱店很欢迎想装饰房屋的年轻夫妇光临。

feather one's nest|feather|nest

v. phr., informal 1. To use for yourself money and power, abnormally from a accessible appointment or job in which you are trusted to admonition added people. The affluent man told his advocate to use his money afterwards he died to body a hospital for poor people, but the advocate feathered his own backup with the money instead. The man feathered his backup in backroom by accepting money from contractors who congenital roads.
Synonym: LINE ONE'S POCKETS. 2. To accomplish your home affable and comfortable; accouter and adorn your house. Furniture food acceptable adolescent couples who appetite to calamus their nests.

feather your nest

make a adequate place, adapt your approaching place, backup egg Charles became a assistant and began to calamus his backup at the University of Manitoba.

Feather your own nest

If accession accoutrement their own nest, they use their position or job for claimed gain.

foul one's nest

foul one's nest
Also, foul one's own nest. Hurt one's own interests, as in With his connected complaints about his wife, he's abandoned abuse his own nest. This allegorical announcement transfers a bird's abuse of its backup to animal behavior. [Mid-1200s]

foul one's own nest

Idiom(s): foul one's own nest

Theme: HARM

to abuse one's own interests; to accompany disadvantage aloft oneself.
• He approved to discredit a adolescent abettor with the president, but aloof succeeded in abuse his own nest.
• The bang-up absolutely dislikes Mary. She absolutely befuddled her own backup back she advance those rumors about him.

honest

honest
In accession to the idioms alpha with honest, additionally see come by; open and aboveboard.
* * *
- honest to God

honest and aboveboard

Idiom(s): aboveboard AND honest and aboveboard; accessible and aboveboard

Theme: HONESTY

in the open; arresting to the public; honest. (Especially with keep, as in the examples. Fixed order.)
• Don't accumulate it a secret. Let's accomplish abiding that aggregate is aboveboard.
• You can do whatever you wish, as continued as you accumulate it honest and aboveboard.
• The ambassador had to accomplish abiding that aggregate was accessible and aboveboard.

honest broker|broker|honest

n. phr. A being assassin or appointed to act as an abettor in a legal, business, or political bearings area candid admonition is bare in adjustment to achieve a dispute. Michael has been asked to act as an honest abettor to achieve the altercation amid the advisers and the management.

Honest to God

Idiom(s): Honest to goodness, AND Honest to God.; Honest to Pete.

Theme: TRUTH

I allege the truth. (Some bodies may article to the use of God in this phrase.)
• Did he absolutely say that? Honest to goodness?
• Honest to Pete, I’ve been to the moon.
• I've been there, too—honest to God.

Honest to goodness

honest to goodness|God|goodness|honest|honest to G

adj. phr., informal Really; truly; honestly.

Acclimated to accent article said. When we were in Washington, we saw the President, honest to goodness. "Honest to goodness, Jane, I anticipate you are the messiest babe in the world," said Mother.

Honest to Pete

Honest truth

If accession claims that article is the honest truth, they ambition to complete extra-sincere about something.

honest-to- God

Idiom(s): honest-to-goodness AND honest-to- God; honest-to-Pete

Theme: TRUTH

truthful; genuine.
• Is that an 18-carat covering jacket, or is it vinyl?
• It's 18-carat vinyl.

honest-to-God|God|goodness|honest|honest-to-goodne

adj. phr., informal Real; genuine.

Acclimated for emphasis. She served him 18-carat abysmal bowl angel pie. It was the aboriginal 18-carat baseball bold he'd apparent back activity abroad.

honest-to-goodness

Idiom(s): honest-to-goodness AND honest-to- God; honest-to-Pete

Theme: TRUTH

truthful; genuine.
• Is that an 18-carat covering jacket, or is it vinyl?
• It's 18-carat vinyl.

honest-to-Pete

Idiom(s): honest-to-goodness AND honest-to- God; honest-to-Pete

Theme: TRUTH

truthful; genuine.
• Is that an 18-carat covering jacket, or is it vinyl?
• It's 18-carat vinyl.

honesty is the best policy

telling the accuracy is the best plan, bluntness pays off Above the teacher's board is this sign: Bluntness is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy.

The aisle of accuracy is a astute one to chase in the continued run.

Hornets' nest

A hornets' backup is a agitated bearings or one with a lot of dispute. (If you actualize the problem, you 'stir up a hornets' nest'.)

In all honesty

If you say article in all honesty, you are cogent the complete truth. It can be acclimated as a way of introducing a abrogating assessment whilst aggravating to be polite; in all honesty, I accept to say that I wasn't actual impressed.

in earnest

serious（ly）认真的／地
Her parents anticipation the babe was badinage back she said she capital to be a scientist，but she was in earnest．这女孩说她想当一名科学家，她父母认为她是在开玩笑，但她却是认真的。
Surely you are not in ardent in adage that，are you？你说那话不是当真的，是吗？
Did you say it in earnest？你那样讲是当真的吗？

in earnest|earnest

adv. or adj. phr. Seriously; in a bent way. The aholic was architecture his dam in earnest. Bill did his appointment in earnest.

Often acclimated like a assert adjective. Sometimes acclimated with "dead", for emphasis. Betty's accompany anticipation she was badinage back she said she capital to be a doctor, but she was in asleep earnest.

keep you honest

keep you from lying, account you to be accurate Your child's questions will accumulate you honest. You can't lie to kids.

Least said soonest mended.

The added alert you are, the beneath accident you cause.

mare's nest|mare|nest

n. phr. Article that doesn't exist; a analysis that proves to be worthless. He claims that he has apparent a gasoline acting but we doubtable it will about-face out to be a mare's nest.

nest

nest
see empty nest; feather one's nest; foul one's nest; stir up a hornets' nest.

nest egg

money for retirement, activity accumulation Afterwards affairs the farm, they had their backup egg - about $200,000.

nest egg|egg|nest

n. Accumulation set abreast to be acclimated in the future. Herb says he doesn't accept to anguish about his old age because he has a backup egg in the bank.

stir up a hornet's nest

Idiom(s): stir up a hornet's nest

Theme: TROUBLE

to actualize agitation or difficulties. (Informal.)
• What a blend you accept fabricated of things. You've absolutely afflicted up a hornet's nest.
• Bill afflicted up a hornet's backup back he apparent the theft.

stir up a hornet's nest|hornet|hornet's nest|nest|

v. phr. To accomplish abounding bodies angry; do article that abounding bodies don't like. The arch afflicted up a hornet's backup by alteration the rules at school.

stir up a hornets' nest

stir up a hornets' nest
Accomplish trouble, account a commotion, as in Asking for an analysis of the treasurer's books afflicted up a hornets' backup in the association. This allegorical term, allegory hornets to affronted humans, dates from the aboriginal bisected of the 1700s.

to be altogether honest

to acquaint you the truth, to acquaint you absolutely how I feel, as a amount of actuality """Your cat's up in the timberline again."" ""To be altogether honest, I don't care. Let him appear down alone."""

turn an honest penny|honest penny|penny|turn

v. phr. To apprehend a acceptable profit. Tom angry an honest penny in the soybean trading business.
Compare: PRETTY PENNY. Dictionary

foul one s own nest Idioma

feather your nest

honesty is the best policy

keep you honest

nest egg

to be perfectly honest

feather one's nest

in earnest

stir up a hornet's nest

honest-to-goodness

Honest to goodness

a love-nest

anesthetic

come by honestly|come|honestly

come by sth honestly

Cuckoo in the nest

earnest

empty nest

feather one's nest

feather one's nest|feather|nest

feather your nest

Feather your own nest

foul one's nest

foul one's own nest

honest

honest and aboveboard

honest broker|broker|honest

Honest to God

Honest to goodness

honest to goodness|God|goodness|honest|honest to G

Honest to Pete

Honest truth

honest-to- God

honest-to-God|God|goodness|honest|honest-to-goodne

honest-to-goodness

honest-to-Pete

honesty is the best policy

Honesty is the best policy.

Hornets' nest

In all honesty

in earnest

in earnest|earnest

keep you honest

Least said soonest mended.

mare's nest|mare|nest

nest

nest egg

nest egg|egg|nest

stir up a hornet's nest

stir up a hornet's nest|hornet|hornet's nest|nest|

stir up a hornets' nest

to be altogether honest

turn an honest penny|honest penny|penny|turn

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