lord it over, to Idiom, Proverb

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.

lord it over someone

Fig. to bang-up someone; to absolute and ascendancy someone. Mr. Smith seems to aristocrat it over his wife. The bang-up lords it over anybody in the office.Learn more: lord, over

lord it over

Domineer over, act arrogantly toward, as in After Mary was adopted president, she approved to aristocrat it over the added girls. [Late 1500s] Also see queen it. Learn more: lord, over

lord it over

To act in a arrogant or above address toward: "She's lorded it over me all our developed lives because she went to college" (Jane Stevenson).Learn more: lord, over

lord it over, to

To behave arrogantly, bold affectedness of ascendancy and self-importance; to dominate. The noun lord was already present in Middle English about a.d. 900. It began to be acclimated as a verb to denote arrogant in the seventeenth century, and was actuality acclimated added figuratively still by the aboriginal nineteenth century, back Wordsworth wrote, “You blah building that still acceleration up as if to aristocrat it over air” (Sonnets aloft the Punishment of Death). His abreast beyond the Atlantic, Washington Irving, wrote, “The Kaatskill Mountains are apparent . . . lording it over the surrounding country” (Rip VanWinkle, 1820).Learn more: lord

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a new lease on life a notch below a nut case A-OK a pack of lies a pain in the ass a pain in the butt a paper trail a party to that a pat answer a penny for your thoughts a penny pincher a perfect stranger a pick-me-up a picture is worth a thousand words a piece of ass a piece of cake