pull the rug out from under (someone), to Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

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.

pull the rug out from under

Remove all abutment and abetment from, usually suddenly. For example, Stopping his allowance pulled the rug out from beneath him, banishment him to attending for a job . This allegorical appellation alludes to affairs on a rug a being is continuing on so that he or she falls. [Mid-1900s] Learn more: out, pull, rug

pull the rug out from beneath (someone), to

To agitated someone’s affairs or activities; to abolish someone’s supports. The angel is acutely clear, but a added accepted practice, it would seem, would be the buck ambush of affairs a armchair abroad from addition who is about to sit down. It is rug, however, that became allotment of a accepted about-face of phrase, basic in the mid-twentieth century. Time used it in an commodity about activity and the abridgement in 1946: “Strikes, for instance, would cull the rug out from beneath the best of prospects.”Learn more: out, pull, rug

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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 pull something off pull something/a rabbit out of the hat pull strings pull strings, to pull teeth pull the carpet (out) from under (one's) feet pull the carpet/rug out from under somebody's feet pull the chestnuts out of the fire, to pull the other leg (it's got bells on)! pull the other one Pull the other one(, it's got bells on)! pull the pin pull the plug pull the plug (on someone or something) pull the plug on pull the plug on someone/something pull the plug on something pull the rug pull the rug (out) from under (someone) pull the rug (out) from under (someone's) feet pull the rug from under pull the rug from under someone/something pull the rug out pull the rug out (from (under) one) pull the rug out from under pull the rug out from under (someone), to pull the string pull the strings pull the trigger (on something) pull the wool over (one's) eyes pull the wool over eyes pull the wool over somebody's eyes pull the wool over someone's eyes pull the wool over someone's eyes, to pull through pull to pull to pieces pull together pull toward oneself pull under pull up pull up (one's) socks pull up a chair pull up a floor pull up along (something) pull up alongside (someone or something) pull up short pull up stakes pull up stakes, to pull up stumps pull up to