head scratcher »
December 2007, W:Daily News Tribune - Golden Globes nominations a head-scratcher.
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head-in-the-sand »
Exhibiting disregard or denial of a problem or threat.
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here goes nothing »
Indicates a lack of confidence or certainty about the activity about to be tried.
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here's to »
Denoting proposed salutation while drinking alcohol, toast.
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hide nor hair »
A trace, indication, or evidence, especially of a person.
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hide one's light under a bushel »
For a person to keep some talent or skill hidden from other people. The tone is that a person having a talent which they can be proud of ought not hide it.
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hit the nail on the head »
To identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer.
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horse of a different color »
An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.
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horse sense »
Common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom independent from, and trumping, formal education.
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hot spot »
dangerous place; accident place
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house cooling party »
A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.
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in evidence »
Visibly present; noticeable.
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in the act »
In the process of doing something; used to emphasize the eye-witness evidence.
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it's not what you know but who you know »
For success, and especially to obtain employment, one's knowledge and skills are less useful and less important than one's network of personal contacts.1951, G. P. Bush and L. H. Hattery, "Federal Recruitment of Junior Engineers," Science, vol. 114, no. 2966, p. 456:Eighty-four students referred to political influence as a disadvantage of federal employment with such remarks as: "There are too many political connections necessary . . . it's not what you know but who you know
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itchy trigger finger »
A tendency to act in haste or without consideration.
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