ball up »
To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
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bet dollars to donuts »
To suggest that something is very likely to be true or that one has a strong hunch about something.
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big kahuna »
A boss, leader, chieftain, or top-ranking person in an organization.
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blow chunks »
To be very bad, inadequate, unpleasant, or miserable; to thoroughly suck.
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blow chunks »
To suffer from explosive diarrhea.
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blow chunks »
To vomit chunks of undigested food.
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divide and conquer »
A combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.(computing) Applied to various algorithms, such as quicksort, that solve a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.(as imperative, proverb) In order to rule securely, don't allow alliances of your enemies.
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drive the porcelain bus »
To vomit, especially while drunk or hung over.
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fork over »
Hundreds of spectators forked over the 70 bucks for tickets.
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hung the moon »
To view or be viewed with uncritical or excessive awe, reverence, or infatuation.
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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.
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hunger is the best sauce »
Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.
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hunger is the best spice »
When one is hungry, anything will taste good.
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hunker down »
To take shelter; to prepare oneself for some eventuality; to focus on a task.
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hunker down »
To stubbornly hold to a position.
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in thunderation »
In any set of circumstances whatsoever.
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keep the wolf from the door »
To ward off poverty or hunger.
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off the hook »
Of a telephone, having an open connection; not hung up.
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oh dark hundred »
Some unspecified hour in the early morning.
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on the line »
On a level with the eye of the spectator; said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures.
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on the prowl »
Hunting or seeking.
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parcel out »
To divide into portions or chunks; to ration.
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proverbs hunt in pairs »
Alternative form of proverbs run in pairs.
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round down »
To the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
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round up »
To the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
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snipe hunt »
A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.
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steal somebody's thunder »
To detract from somebody's accomplishments or glory; to undermine.
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track down »
To hunt for or locate; to search for; to find.
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walk away from »
To abandon or leave; to shun.
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you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds »
You can't have it both ways.
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