Mope Idiom American Expressions and American Idioms

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mope What does mope mean?	act sadly and slowly
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Bright as a button What does "Bright as a button" mean?	A person who is as bright as a button is very intelligent or smart.

Whole nine yards What does "Whole nine yards" mean?	The whole nine yards means means everything that is necessary or required for something.
saddle (someone) with (something) What does "saddle (someone) with (something)" mean?	to give someone something undesirable or difficult to deal with	I try not to saddle my friend with the problems that I am having at work.
fish for (something) What does "fish for (something)" mean?	to try to get information from someone	The lawyer was fishing for information from the woman.
heart is not in (something) What does "heart is not in (something)" mean?	to not really want to do what you are doing	The boy's heart was not in the swimming club so he quit the team.

make a cold call What does "make a cold call" mean?	to visit or telephone a potential but unknown customer from a list of people	When he first started to work at his company the salesman was asked to make cold calls from the telephone book.
pump What does "pump" mean?	try to extract information from somebody
by the handful What does "by the handful" mean?	by the amount that one can measure in one handful	We were able to pick strawberries by the handful in the small field.

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Mope Idiom