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| raining
cats and dogs: raining very hard, rain is heavy and coming down
fast (popular in southern states) | |
| a
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: what you have now is
better than what you might have in the future (often say only, "a bird
in the hand ..." which references this idiom) |
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| when pigs fly! -- something will
never happen (it will happen only when pigs start to fly) |
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| barking
up the wrong tree: putting attention in the wrong direction
(like a dog barking and looking into a tree that has nothing in it) |
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| food
for wagging tongues: a topic for gossip (taken from dogs with
tongues hanging out) |
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| beat around the bush:
to avoid the true subject, to say meaningless things and not say the
important point, often used like this, "I won't beat around the bush. I
need ..." |
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| keep (put) all your eggs in one basket:
to have only one thing, such as a job, hobby or goal--so that if you
lose it, you have nothing; usually use negatively, "I don't keep ..."
or "you shouldn't keep ..." |
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| you and what army: an exclamation
used when someone intends to do something that seems impossible
(meaning the person would need an army's help) |
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| (his/her) bark is worse than (his/her) bite:
the person's speech is generally worse than the person's actions |
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| pipe dream: something
you want that is not likely to happen (originated from opium smoking,
popular in the 1920's, but that origin is long forgotten in popular use) |
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| stick with: stay with, do one thing |
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