link in the chain Идиома
chain letter
a letter that is copied and sent to other people This letter says I will have bad luck if I break the chain.
chain of command
order of those in power, line of authority If you are a lieutenant, the chain of command goes up and down.
chain reaction
one event causing a sequence of events Abe sold his shares, causing a chain reaction in the market.
chain smoker
a person who smokes one cigarette after another, smokes like a furnace """Do all chain smokers die of emphysema?"" ""No, but most of them do."""
pull your chain
ask you what you think, ask for your opinion If we want your opinion we'll pull your chain. We'll ask you.
rattle my chain
annoy me, anger me, get under my skin That woman rattles my chain, the way she gossips about me!
ball and chain
derogatory term for a wife or girlfriend
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
The strength of a group depends on each individual member.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link
This means that processes, organisations, etc, are vulnerable because the weakest person or part can always damage or break them.
Yank my chain
If some one says this to another person (i.e. stop yanking my chain) it means for the other person to leave the person who said it alone and to stop bothering them.
link in the chain
One of the steps, stages, or credibility in a development, process, or alternation of events. This new tram band is but one articulation in the alternation of our greater plan to amend the city's accessible busline system. It was the deregulation of the bazaar that accepted to be the best acute articulation in the alternation of the closing bread-and-butter meltdown.Learn more: chain, linka articulation in the ˈchain
one of the stages in a action or a band of argument: Many bodies accept that advancing from a burst home may be one of the aboriginal links in the alternation that eventually leads to a activity of crime.Learn more: chain, link