auction off »
To sell something at an auction.
|
caucus race »
A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.
|
caucus race »
The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, esp. presidential; a primary election via caucus.
|
criss-cross applesauce »
Cross-legged.
|
cut red tape »
To reduce bureaucracy.
|
due course »
A. 1399, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales.
|
hunger is a good sauce »
(dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.
|
hunger is the best sauce »
Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.
|
mint sauce »
serve this with lamb
|
powers that be »
The holders of power or the authorities in a given situation, especially as seen as being faceless or unreasonably bureaucratic.
|
red tape »
A derisive term for regulations or bureaucratic procedures that are considered excessive or excessively time- and effort-consuming.
|
sauce for the goose »
A short form of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
|
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander »
If something is acceptable for one person, it is acceptable for another.
|
| Like Phrases.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
[