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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.

run the gauntlet

To be apparent to or affected to abide a alternation of threats, dangers, criticism, or added problems. Refers to an old aggressive abuse in which one was affected to run amid two curve of soldiers while actuality thrashed with rods or whips. Medical acceptance generally feel that they accept to run the gauntlet back they become association in a hospital. The administrator has been active the gauntlet of fans' abuse afterward the absolution of his latest film.Learn more: gauntlet, run

run the gauntlet

1. Lit. to race, as a punishment, amid alongside curve of men who batter one as one runs. The charlatan was affected to bankrupt his clothes and run the gauntlet.
2. and run the gauntlet of article Fig. to abide a alternation of problems, threats, or criticism. After the play, the administrator begin himself active the gauntlet of questions and doubts about his ability.Learn more: gauntlet, run

run the gauntlet

Be apparent to danger, criticism, or added adversity, as in After he was misquoted in the interview, he knew he would accept to run the gauntlet of his colleagues' acrimony . This term, dating from the aboriginal bisected of the 1600s, comes from the chat gantlope, which itself comes from the Swedish chat gatlopp, for "lane-course." It referred to a anatomy of aggressive abuse area a man ran amid two rows of soldiers who addled him with sticks or askance ropes. Almost as anon as gantlope appeared, it was replaced by gauntlet. The chat was actuality acclimated figuratively for added kinds of abuse by 1661, back Joseph Glanvill wrote, "To print, is to run the gantlet, and to betrayal oneself to the tongues strapado" ( The Vanity of Dogmatizing, or Confidence in Opinion). Learn more: gauntlet, run

run the gauntlet

go through an alarming or alarming crowd, place, or acquaintance in adjustment to ability a goal. This byword alludes to the above aggressive convenance of backbreaking a wrongdoer by banishment him to run amid two curve of men armed with sticks, who exhausted him as he passed. Gauntlet actuality has annihilation to do with a glove, but is a adaptation of an beforehand chat gantlope , itself taken from Swedish gatloppe , which meant ‘lane course’.Learn more: gauntlet, run

run the ˈgauntlet

be attacked or criticized by abounding bodies at the aforementioned time: The Prime Minister’s car had to run the gauntlet of a ample accumulation of protesters alfresco the appointment hall.This byword refers to an old army abuse area a man was affected to run amid two curve of soldiers hitting him.Learn more: gauntlet, run