F
Idioms beginning with "F"
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[forty winks] {n. phr.}, {informal}
A short period of sleep; a nap.
When the truck driver felt sleepy, he stopped by the side of the road to catch forty winks.
Compare: [SHUT-EYE].
[forward wall] {n.}
The line of a football team.
Princeton 's line outplayed the Rutgers forward wall.
[foul ball] {n.}
A batted baseball that lands outside the foul line.
Mickey hit a long foul ball that landed on the roof.
[foul line] {n.}
1. Either of two lines separating fair from foul ground in baseball.
Willie hit the ball just inside the foul line for a double.
2. A line across the upper end of a bowling alley across which a bowler must not step.
* /John […]
[foul out] {v.}
1. To make an out in baseball by hitting a foul fly ball that is caught.
He fouled out to the catcher.
2. To be forced to leave a basketball game because of getting more than the limit number of personal fouls.
* /A professional […]
[foul play] {n.}
Treachery; a criminal act (such as murder).
After they discovered the dead body, the police suspected foul play.
* /"She must have met with foul play," the chief inspector said when they couldn't find the 12-year-old girl who had […]
[foul shot] {n.}
A free throw given in basketball to a player who has been fouled.
Tony was given two foul shots when he was fouled while trying to shoot.
Compare: [FIELD GOAL] (2), [FREE THROW].
[foul up] {v.}, {informal}
1. To make dirty.
The birds fouled up his newly washed car.
2. To tangle up.
He tried to throw a lasso but he got the rope all fouled up.
3. To ruin or spoil by stupid mistakes; botch.
* /He fouled the whole […]
[foul-up] {n.}
(stress on "foul")
1. {informal}
A confused situation; confusion; mistake.
The luncheon was handled with only one or two foul-ups.
2. {informal}
A breakdown.
There was a foul-up in his car's steering mechanism.
3. {slang}
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