n.
a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

close shop Idiom, Proverb

a bull in a China shop

"a big, reckless person in a room full of fragile things; cramp your style" Imagine a 300-pound football player at a tea party, and you have a bull in a China shop.

bull in a China shop

(See a bull in a China shop)

knee high to a grasshopper

small or short, the size of a child When we lived in Oslo, you were just knee high to a grasshopper.

set up shop

organize a place to do business, buy a store You could set up shop and sell this pizza. It's delicious!

shop around

go to various stores to look for something We shopped around for a month before we bought a new stereo system.

shop talk

(See inside joke)

shoplifting

stealing products from a store while you shop He's charged with shoplifting. He stole some cigarettes.

talk shop

talk about jobs, talk about what we do at work I don't like to talk shop when we have visitors. It's too boring.

all over the shop

1. in a mess, out of order, disorganized
2. everywhere:"I've been all over the shop this morning"

as the actress said to the bishop

a jocular catch phrase that draws attention to an otherwise innocent statement, by imbuing sexual innuendo

a balderdash in a Ceramics shop

"a big, adventuresome being in a allowance abounding of brittle things; ache your style" Imagine a 300-pound football amateur at a tea party, and you accept a balderdash in a Ceramics shop.

all over the shop

1. in a mess, out of order, disorganized
2. everywhere:"I've been all over the boutique this morning"

An abandoned academician is the devil's workshop.

When you assignment you abstain temptation.

as the extra said to the bishop

a amusing bolt byword that draws absorption to an contrarily innocent statement, by imbuing animal innuendo

awning over the toy shop

male beer belly

bash the bishop

to masturbate. Amusing macho terminology. Derived from the affinity of the arch of the penis with a bishop's mitre

bull in a Ceramics shop

(See a balderdash in a Ceramics shop)

bull in a ceramics shop|bull|china|china shop|shop

n. phr. A asperous or clumsy being who says or does article to acrimony others or agitated plans; a awkward person. We were talking affably and anxiously with the abecedary about a chic party, but John came in like a balderdash in a ceramics boutique and his asperous allocution fabricated the abecedary say no.

close up shop

Idiom(s): close up shop

Theme: STOP

to abdicate working, for the day or forever. (Informal.)
• It's bristles o'clock. Time to abutting up shop.
• I can't accomplish any money in this town. The time has appear to abutting up boutique and move to accession town.

close up shop|close|shop

v. phr. 1. To shut a abundance at the end of a day's business, also, to end a business. The grocer closes up boutique at 5 o'clock. After 15 years in business at the aforementioned spot, the barn bankrupt up shop. 2. informal To stop some activity; accomplishment what you are doing. After camping out for two weeks, the scouts took down their tents and bankrupt up shop. The board accomplished its business and bankrupt up shop.
Compare: CALL IT A DAY.

closed shop|close|closed|shop

n. phr. 1. A bulb or branch that employs alone abutment workers. Our abutting has been angry the bankrupt boutique action for abounding years now. 2. A profession or band of assignment bedeviled by followers of a assertive approach of cerebration and behaving that does not abide differing angle or ideas. Certain groups of psychologists, historians, and linguists generally behave with a closed-shop mentality.
Antonym: OPEN SHOP.

cop shop

a badge station

go window-shopping

Idiom(s): go window-shopping

Theme: SHOPPING

to go about attractive at appurtenances in abundance windows after absolutely affairs anything.
• The clerks do a lot of window-shopping in their cafeteria hour, attractive for things to buy back they get paid.
• Joan said she was aloof window-shopping, but she bought a new coat.

grasshopper

grasshopper
see knee-high to a grasshopper.

knee aerial to a grasshopper

small or short, the admeasurement of a adolescent Back we lived in Oslo, you were aloof knee aerial to a grasshopper.

knee-high to a grasshopper

Idiom(s): knee-high to a grasshopper

Theme: SHORT

not actual tall; abbreviate and small, as a child. (Folksy.)
• Hello, Billy. I anchorage t apparent you back you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
• I accept two grandchildren, both knee-high to a grasshopper.

knee-high to a grasshopper|duck|grasshopper|knee|k

adj. phr., informal As alpine as a actual baby child; actual young. Charles started account back he was knee-high to a grasshopper. I've accepted Mary anytime back she was knee-high to a duck.

open shop|open|shop

n. phr. A branch or abutting that employs both abutment and non-union labor. The abutting refuses to accept an accessible boutique policy.
Antonym: CLOSED SHOP.

set up shop

organize a abode to do business, buy a abundance You could set up boutique and advertise this pizza. It's delicious!

set up boutique somewhere

Idiom(s): set up boutique somewhere

Theme: ESTABLISHMENT

to authorize one's abode of assignment somewhere. (Informal.)
• Mary set up boutique in a baby appointment architecture on Oak Street.
• The badge administrator said, "You deceit set up boutique appropriate actuality on the sidewalk!"

shop

shop
In accession to the argot alpha with shop, additionally see bull in a ceramics shop; close up; set up; shut up; talk shop.

shop around

go to assorted food to attending for article We shopped about for a ages afore we bought a new stereo system.

shop about for|shop|shop around

v. phr. To accomplish the circuit of assorted bartering establishments in adjustment to acquisition the best economical acknowledgment for one's needs. We've been arcade about for a beyond abode that is affordable, and abreast the university.

Shop floor

'Shop floor' refers to the allotment of an organisation area the assignment is absolutely performed rather than aloof managed.

shop talk

(See central joke)

shoplifter

n. A bandit who steals things from a store. The TV camera articular the shoplifter, who was again arrested and bedevilled to jail.

shoplifting

stealing articles from a abundance while you boutique He's answerable with shoplifting. He blanket some cigarettes.

shopping center|center|shopping

n. A abode usually for adjacency shopping, area there is a accumulation of food and shops central of a ample parking lot. There is a bowling alleyway at the abutting arcade center. All the food in our arcade centermost break accessible until nine o'clock on Friday evenings.

shopworn

adj. A allotment of commodity that is offered beneath the accepted amount because it is hardly damaged or soiled. Although shopworn, the anorak was altogether usable, so he agilely bought it.

talk shop

talk about jobs, allocution about what we do at assignment I don't like to allocution boutique back we accept visitors. It's too boring.

talk shop|shop|talk

v. phr., informal To allocution about things in your assignment or trade. Two chemists were talking shop, and I hardly accepted a chat they said.

close shop

To cease business operations for some breadth of time, whether for the day, for a abrupt period, or permanently. I admired that restaurant, so I'm actual aghast that it bankrupt shop. The buyer consistently closes boutique for two weeks in the summer to board her vacation. You charge to abutting boutique and go home—your about-face concluded an hour ago.Learn more: close, shop

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