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a babe in arms

a baby, a child who is still wet behind the ears Dar was just a babe in arms when we emigrated to Canada.

a babe in the woods

"a defenseless person; a naive, young person" He's just a babe in the woods. He needs someone to protect him.

a bed of roses

an easy life, a pleasant place to work or stay Who said that retirement is a bed of roses?

a bee in her bonnet

upset, a bit angry, on edge Aunt Betsy was kind of cranky, like she had a bee in her bonnet.

a hill of beans

a small amount, very little The money he lost doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

a hot number

a couple (or topic) that everyone is talking about Paul and Rita are a hot number now. They're in love.

a notch below

inferior, not as good That bicycle is a notch below the Peugeot. It's not quite as good.

a sure bet

certain to win, a good choice to bet on The Lions are a sure bet in the final game. They'll win easily.

above and beyond the call of duty

much more than expected, go the extra mile Her extra work was above and beyond the call of duty.

age before beauty

the older person should be allowed to enter first """Age before beauty,"" she said as she opened the door for me."

be on the rocks

1. Literally, to accept become ashore on rocks in the water, as of a ship. Our address is on the rocks now, afterwards abolition during that agitated storm.2. To be in accident and acceptable to end or fail. Typically acclimated in advertence to adventurous relationships. Did you apprehend that Bill and Maria are on the rocks? Of advance their alliance is on the rocks, they action all the time!3. To ache banking hardship, generally suddenly. I was on the rocks appealing anon afterwards I absent my job. You charge to accomplish complete banking decisions to accumulate your aggregation from actuality on the rocks.4. To accommodate ice, as of an alcoholic beverage. That drink's on the rocks, so it's not the one I ordered.Learn more: on, rock

on the rocks, to be

Ruined, either financially or in some added way. This appellation comes from a address that has run ashore on rocks and will breach into pieces unless it can be hauled or floated off in time. The appellation began to be acclimated as a allegory for added disasters in the backward nineteenth century. A accepted avant-garde appliance appears in Tennessee Williams’s comedy Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955): “When a alliance goes on the rocks, the rocks are there, appropriate there [pointing to the bed].” A added contempo acceptation for on the rocks is for a beverage, usually absolute liquor, that is served over ice cubes (“rocks”).Learn more: on

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