O
Idioms beginning with "O"
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[on the hour] {adv. phr.}
Each time the hour has zero minutes and zero seconds.
The uptown bus goes past the school on the hour.
The woman must take her pill on the hour.
[on the house] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
Paid for by the owner.
At the opening of the new hotel, the champagne was on the house.
Oscar was the first customer at the diner, so his lunch was on the house.
[on the job] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
Working hard; not wasting time.
Joe was on the job all of the time that he was at work.
The school paper came out on time because the editors were on the job.
[on the lam] {adj.} or {adv. phr.}, {slang}
Running away, especially from the law; in flight.
The bank robber was on the lam for ten months before the police caught him.
- Sometimes used in the phrase "take it on the lam".
* /After a big quarrel […]
[on the level] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
Honest and fair; telling the whole truth.
Our teacher respects the students who are on the level with her.
Joyce wondered if the fortune-teller was on the level.