T
Idioms beginning with "T"
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[the devil to pay] {n. phr.}
A severe penalty.
If we don't finish the work by next Monday, there will be the devil to pay.
[the edge] {n.}, {informal}
The advantage. — Usually used in the phrases "get the edge on", "have the edge on".
In the last quarter of the game, our team got the edge on the other team and kept it.
* /Mary has the edge on Jane in the beauty […]
[the idea] or [the very idea] {n. phr.}
- Used in exclamations to show that you do not like something.
The idea! Thinking Mother was my sister!
The very idea of Tom bringing that dirty dog into my clean house!
[the lid] {n.}, {slang}
Something that holds back or holds out of sight.
The police blew the lid off the gambling operations.
John kept the lid on his plans until he was ready to run for class president.
* /The chief of police placed the lid […]
[the likes of] {informal}
Something like or similar to; something of the same kind as.
I have never seen the likes of John.
It was a chocolate sundae the likes of which Mary would never see again.
[the long and the short] or [the long and short] {n. phr.}
All that needs to be said; the basic fact; point.
The long and the short of the matter is that the man is no actor.
The money isn't there, and that's the long and short of it.
[the matter] {adj.}
Not as it should be; wrong. — Used in questions or with negatives or "if".
Why don't you answer me? What's the matter?
John may be slow in arithmetic, but nothing's the matter with his pitching arm.
* /If anything is the […]
[the more --- the more ---] or [the ---er the ---er]
- Used in two halves of a sentence to show that when there is more of the first, there is more of the second too.
The more you eat. the fatter you will get.
* /Get your report in when you can; […]
[the other day] {adv. phr.}
In the recent past.
I saw an incredible parade of elephants along Michigan Avenue the other day on my way to work.