C
Idioms beginning with "C"
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Contents of C:
[cotton picking], [cotton-pickin'] {adj.}, {slang}, {colloquial}
Worthless, crude, common, messy.
Keep your cotton picking hands off my flowers!
You've got to clean up your room, son, this is a cotton-pickin' mess!
[couch case] {n.}, {slang}, {informal}
A person judged emotionally so disturbed that people think he ought to see a psychiatrist (who, habitually, make their patients lie down on a couch).
* /Joe's divorce messed him up so badly that he became a couch […]
[couch doctor] {n.}, {slang}, {colloquial}
A psychoanalyst who puts his patients on a couch following the practice established by Sigmund Freud.
I didn't know your husband was a couch doctor, I thought he was a gynecologist!
[couch potato] {n.}
A person who is addicted to watching television all day.
Poor Ted has become such a couch potato that we can't persuade him to do anything.
[cough up] {v.}, {slang}
1. To give (money) unwillingly; pay with an effort.
Her husband coughed up the money for the party with a good deal of grumbling.
2. To tell what was secret; make known.
He coughed up the whole story for the police.
[couldn't care less] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To be indifferent; not care at all.
The students couldn't care less about the band; they talk all through the concert.
Also heard increasingly as "could care less" (nonstandard in this form.)
[count heads] or [count noses] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To count the number of people in a group.
On the class picnic, we counted heads before we left and when we arrived to be sure that no one got lost.
* /The usher was told to look out into the […]