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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.

beat the active daylights out of

Also, knock or lick the hell or active daylights or bits or capacity or tar out of . Administer a barbarous assault to; also, defeat soundly. For example, The drillmaster said he'd like to exhausted the active daylights out of the vandals who damaged the gym attic , or Bob agape the capacity out of that bully, or He swore he'd exhausted the tar out of anyone who approved to stop him. These chatty phrases about consistently denote a concrete attack. In the first, daylights originally (1700) meant "the eyes" and after was continued to any basic ( living) anatomy organ. Thus Henry Fielding wrote, in Amelia (1752): "If the adult says addition such words to me ... I will becloud her daylights" (that is, put out her eyes). Hell actuality is artlessly a affirm chat acclimated for emphasis. The added barnyard shit and the politer stuffing allude artlessly to animadversion out someone's insides. Tar is added abstruse but has been so acclimated back the backward 1800s. Learn more: beat, daylight, living, of, out

beat the active daylights out of, to

To abuse severely, to thrash. This cliché is in aftereffect a bright addition of to exhausted addition up, an American declamation dating from about 1900. The chat daylights was a nineteenth-century American argot for one’s basic organs. “That’ll agitate the daylights out of us,” wrote Emerson Bennett (Mike Fink, 1852). Addition biographer referred to “pulling out” a mule’s daylights by assault it, and abstruseness writers of the aboriginal twentieth aeon sometimes had their characters “shoot the daylights” out of someone. Earlier British versions are to exhausted atramentous and dejected (Shakespeare), beat to a clabber (Smollett), and the appropriately abstract beat to a pulp. Another American analogue is to exhausted the tar out of, which clashing the added adequately clear equivalents is added puzzling, but has been acclimated back about 1800.Learn more: beat, daylight, living, out

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