We've found 374 phrases for KIN (0.1 seconds):

weigh in »    To bring in one's weight, metaphorically speaking, to bear on an issue.

what's cooking »    What's happening?; what's going on?; how are you?.

wishful thinking »    Decision-making based on self-delusion.

wishful thinking »    The illusion that what one would like is actually true.

work the room »    To interact with one's audience, taking queues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm.

working girl »    A prostitute.

working girl »    A young woman who works.

wrong side of the tracks »    . May refer to area where the working class, poor or extremely poor live.

yellow card »    booking

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs »    In order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that something should be destroyed.

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone »    It is advantageous not to rely solely on being nice.

you made your bed, now sleep in it »    A moralizing rejection said to someone looking for an easy out, especially of a situation they put themselves into.

you name it »    Used after a short list to show that further examples are unnecessary; all kinds of things.

zip one's lip »    To stop talking; to be quiet.

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