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database is a comprehensive collection of all the American idioms and slang available.
American Idioms are many and varied. We hope you enjoy our collection. We are adding more all the time.
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use some elbow grease
What does use some elbow grease mean? | use some effort | We used a lot of elbow grease to clean the oven.
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use some elbow grease
What does use some elbow grease mean? | to use some effort | The dirty kitchen could use some elbow grease to get it clean again.
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use some elbow grease
What does use some elbow grease mean? | to use some effort |
The kitchen could use some elbow grease to make it clean again.
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use some elbow grease
What does use some elbow grease mean? | to use some effort |
We used a lot of elbow grease to clean the oven.
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(to be) hung up on (someone or something)
What does "(to be) hung up on (someone or something)" mean? | to be obsessed or devoted to someone or something | My friend is hung up on one of his colleagues at work.
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as red as a lobster
What does "as red as a lobster" mean? | very red |
The girl was as red as a lobster after sitting in the sun all day.
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Save someone's bacon
What does "Save someone's bacon" mean? | If something saves your bacon, it saves your life or rescues you from a desperate situation. People can also save your bacon. |
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put the pedal to the metal
What does "put the pedal to the metal" mean? | accelerate a car by pressing the accelerator pedal to the floor |
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go over the books
What does "go over the books" mean? | to check and analyze the accounting records of a company | We hired an outside accountant to go over our books.
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Quarrel with bread and butter
What does "Quarrel with bread and butter" mean? | Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job. |
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fit (someone) into a schedule
What does "fit (someone) into a schedule" mean? | to be able to enter someone into a schedule and have time to see him or her | The doctor was not able to fit me into her schedule.
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Note
What does "Note" mean? | This expression is used to describe
something that will not
change, no matter how long or how often it's done. |
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plow into (someone or something)
What does "plow into (someone or something)" mean? | to crash into someone or something with force | The truck plowed into the group of people waiting for the bus.
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couch potato
What does "couch potato" mean? | lazy person who watches television, movies, or plays video games |
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