P
Idioms beginning with "P"
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[pick up the tab] {v. phr.}
To pay the bill in a restaurant; be the one who underwrites financially what others are doing.
"I am always the one who picks up the tab," Charlie complained bitterly. "Others get away with being freeloaders."
Compare: […]
[pick-me-up] {n. phr.}
Something you take when you feel tired or weak.
John stopped at a drugstore for a pick-me-up after working three hours overtime.
Mary always carried a bar of chocolate in her pocketbook for a pick-me-up.
[pickpocket] {n.}
A thief; a petty criminal who steals things and money out of people's pockets on a bus, train, etc.
In some big cities many poor children become pickpockets out of poverty.
[pickup] {n.}, (stress on "pick")
1. A rugged, small truck.
When he got into the lumber business, Max traded in his comfortable two-door sedan for a pickup.
2. Scheduled meeting in order to transfer merchandise or stolen goods.
* /The pickup […]
[Pidgin English] {n. phr.}
A jargon that consists of some mispronounced English words and some foreign words used by Orientals in talking with Westerners.
You can conduct a lot of business in Pidgin English in the Far East.
[pie]
See:
[EAT HUMBLE PIE],
[EASY AS PIE],
[FINGER IN THE PIE],
[PIE IN THE SKY],
[PIE-EYED],
[SWEETIE PIE].
[pie in the sky] {n. phr.}, {informal}
An unrealistic wish or hope.
Our trip to Hawaii is still only a pie in the sky.
Compare: [PIPE DREAM].
[piece]
See:
[BY THE PIECE],
[CONVERSATION PIECE],
[GIVE A PIECE OF ONE'S MIND],
[GO TO PIECES],
[OF A PIECE],
[PIECE OF CAKE],
[SAY ONE'S PIECE] or [SPEAK ONE'S PIECE],
[TO PIECES].
[piece out] {v.}
1. To put together from many different pieces; put together from odd parts; patch.
They pieced out a meal from leftovers.
He pieced out the machine with scrap parts.
* /The detective pieced out the story from a stray fact […]