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to get into hot waterTo get into troubleRate it:
to get one's wires crossedOne can get their wires crossed by asking the wrong question or making a confusing statement or by interpreting the answer incorrectly, or by receiving confusing answers to confusing statements.Rate it:
to give a person lineTo allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line.Rate it:
to goBelonging to the subgroup that have not passed or have not been finished or have not been addressed yet.Rate it:
to goServed in a package or takeout container so as to be taken away from a restaurant rather than eaten on the premises.Rate it:
to goremainingRate it:
to handaccessibleRate it:
to have a brush withTo encounterRate it:
to hell and backTo live through an extremely unpleasant, difficult, or painful experience.Rate it:
to hell and goneRuined or lost completely; a long distance away or apart; for good or forever; into oblivion or non-existenceRate it:
to hell in a handbasketTo a bad state of affairs quickly.Rate it:
to hell withUsed to show displeasure or disregard toward the named person or thing.Rate it:
to inculcate a habitteach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitionsRate it:
to know and not to do is not to knowWhen you say you know something yet you fail to act as if that knowledge were true, it shows you don't really know that something to be true; it essentially calls the person a hypocrite since they say one thing and do another; same as the phrase "Your actions speak so loudly that your words I cannot hear"Rate it:
to let a frog out of one's mouthTo say the wrong thing.Rate it:
to little availWith little success or benefit.Rate it:
to live in a gingerbread houseOne whom lives in a land of fantasy, dreamland instead of the sturdy house of reality.Rate it:
to live out in the sticksTo live in a remote location.Rate it:
to no availEffect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).Rate it:
to not let any grass grow under one's feetto be always active and never delay in taking an actionRate it:
to one's heart's contentUntil satisfied; as much as is wished.Rate it:
to one's mindIn one's opinion, from one's point of view.Rate it:
to piecesCompletely, utterly.Rate it:
to piecesInto fragments or parts.Rate it:
to piecesOut of control.Rate it:
to piecesInto a state of emotional breakdown.Rate it:
to save one's lifeat allRate it:
to save one's lifeunder any circumstances; rather die than...Rate it:
to say nothing ofused by the speaker to mention another more significant or important, usually related, point; an apophasisRate it:
to say the leastUsed to suggest that what was previously stated was an understatement.Rate it:
to set asail?set off to sailRate it:
to shine someone on. (“i’m just shining you on”)To falsely lead someone on, with a false but true-sounding idea or opinion.Rate it:
to sing like a canaryto squeal to the law on one's accomplicesRate it:
to spareleft overRate it:
to sparemore than is requiredRate it:
to speak ofsufficient; important or significant enough to be worth mentioning.Rate it:
to stick aroundOne whom sticks around is a person in waiting, quietly present and ready to serve.Rate it:
to tell tales out of school.to reveal information which should have been kept privy to an organization.Rate it:
to tell the truthAn attestation to the truthfulness and frankness of an associated statement.Rate it:
to tell you the truthSynonym of to be honestRate it:
to that endFor that reason, with that goal, intending to produce that result.Rate it:
to theShort for to the... power, or to the...Rate it:
to theused in rap songs between the letters of a word being spelledRate it:
to the best of one's knowledgeAlternative form of to one's knowledgeRate it:
to the bonecompletely, totallyRate it:
to the brimFull, almost overflowingRate it:
to the brimUsed other than as an idiom.Rate it:
to the gillsEntirely or extremely; to the greatest degree possible.Rate it:
to the hiltcompletely, fully, to one's limitRate it:
to the letterLiterally, exactly, to follow the rules as they're written.Rate it:

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