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... and Clichés, NTC’s Dictionary ofEuphemisms, and NTC’s Dictionary of Folksy, Regional, and Rural Sayings and Eliza-beth Kirkpatrick in NTC’s English Idioms Dictionary. About This Dictionary xiiiamount ... wouldn’t permit it. ᮀ Please don’t 31 BContentsTo the User viiTerms and Symbols ixAbout This Dictionary xi Dictionary 1 Phrase-Finder Index 447Appendix 6 21 McGraw-Hill's Terms of Usemany ... as possible withthe frequently omitted parts in parentheses. For example: back down NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary xiialive and kicking and alive and well welland healthy. (Informal.) ᮀ...

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... shouting distancewithin within someone’sgraspwithin within someone’sreach NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 616 scene come on the scenescene create a scenescene make a scenescene make the ... the yearYe a r ring in the New Yearyear year after yearyear year in, year out NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 618 they count one’schickens before they hatchThey They don’t make them like ... somethingwith a fine-tooth combwith go over with a bangwith go steady (with someone) NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 614 square square dealsquare square mealsquare square off (for something)square...

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... hot waterhot hot and botheredhot hot and heavyhot hot as firehot hot as hell NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 514 hand lend a hand (to someone)hand lend (someone) a handhand lift a hand ... tight rein on someone or somethingKeep Keep at it!keep keep at someone or something NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 526It It never rains but it pours.It It (only) stands to reason.It It sucks.It ... someoneoff beg off (on something)off be offoff better off (doing something) NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 550give give someonea reputation (for doing something)give give someonea...

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... tilt at windmillsat tip the scales at somethingat try one’shand (at something) NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 458as happy as a larkas happy as can beas hard as a rockas hard as nailsas ... tickas tight as Dick’s hatbandas tough as an old bootas true as steelas ugly as a toad NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 456with impunity without risk of punish-ment; with immunity from the negativeconsequences ... one’stonguebite bite someone’shead offbite bite the bulletbite bite the dust NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 464bite bite the hand that feeds onebite grab a bite (to eat)biteOne’sbark...

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... else). ᮀ Yo uwant to sell for $12 0, and I want to buy for $10 0. Let’s split the difference and close thedeal at $11 0. ᮀ I don’t want to split thedifference. I want $12 0.split up [for people] ... cruelthings to you, but he was angry. Youshouldn’t take those things to heart.take somethingup 1. to begin to deal withan issue. (See also take somethingup (withsomeone).) ᮀ That’s too ... insurance salesmenwere told that the sky was the limit whenit came to potential earnings.slack off 1. to taper off; to reduce gradu-ally. ᮀ Business tends to slack off duringthe winter months....

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... somethingto express a number inthe nearest whole amount or nearestgroup of 1, 10 , 10 0, 1, 000, 1 ⁄ 10 , 1 ⁄ 10 0, 1 ⁄ 1, 000,etc. ᮀ When doing taxes, Anne roundedher figures off to the nearest ... safe andstole the money.pick a lock 311 Over the short haul, you may wish you haddone something different. But things willwork out all right.over the top 1. having gained more thanone’s goal. ... advocateplay (the) devil’s advocate 317 (Informal.) ᮀ The bear ripped into thedeer. ᮀ The angry teacher ripped into thestudent.rip someone or somethingoff 1. [with some-one] to cheat or deceive...

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... something, suchas a rate of interest, permanent over a pe-riod of time. (Informal.) ᮀ We locked inan 11 percent rate on our mortgage. ᮀ Youshould try to lock in a high percentage rateon your bonds.lock, ... houseand make free with my food and drink. ᮀmake free with someone or something 2 61 melt in one’smouth 1. to taste very good.(Also can be literal.) ᮀ This cake is sogood it’ll melt in ... hook for Saturday. I have otherplans. ᮀ Okay, I’ll let you off.let someone or somethingoff 1. and let some-oneoff easy [with someone] to releaseor dismiss someone without punishment.(See...

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... in communication. (Alsoliteral.) ᮀ I have had no contact with Billhave contact with someone 18 1describe my job because it’s in a constantstate of f lux. ᮀ The price of gold is in flux.in ... prime when we ran outof money. ᮀ I could work long hours whenI was in my prime.in one’s prine 211 in one’sright mind sane; rational and sen-sible. (Often in the negative.) ᮀ That wasa stupid ... orsomething. ᮀ The dictionary had nothingon the word I looked up. ᮀ The librariansaid that the library has nothing on theJones brothers.have nothing to do with someone or some-thing 1. not to be...

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... told to fall in behind thescoutmaster. ᮀ The soldiers fell in quickly.fall (all) over oneself 11 0frighten the wits out of someoneandfrighten the (living) daylights out ofsomeone; scare ... with everything they needed.ᮀ They fitted them out for only $14 0. ᮀHe fitted his car out with lots of chrome.fit someoneto a T 1. Go to suit someoneto aT.2. [for something] to fit a person ... [for emotions or a chronic disease]to grow intense suddenly. (Refers to afish for something 11 8few and far between very few; few andwidely scattered. (Informal.) ᮀ Get somegasoline now....

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... Someday it will bevaluable.die a natural death 1. [for someone] todie by disease or old age rather than byviolence or foul play. ᮀ I hope to live to 10 0 and die a natural death. ᮀ The po-lice ... the picnickerscome on the scene? ᮀ The witness arrivedon the scene at about 7 :13 in the evening.come out 1. to become; to turn out. (Alsoliteral.) ᮀ We’ll just have to wait and seehow ... drug ringwide open. ᮀ The newspaper story crackedthe trouble at city hall wide open.crack up 1. [for a plane, boat, car, etc.] tocrash. ᮀ The plane cracked up in thestorm. ᮀ The boat cracked...

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