T
Idioms beginning with "T"
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Contents of T:
[the picture] {n.}
The way things are or were; the facts about something; the situation; what happened or happens.
Where does Susan come into the picture.
When you are looking for a job your education enters into the picture.
* /Old Mr. Brown […]
[the pits] {n.}, {slang}
1. A low class, blighted and ill-maintained place, motel room or apartment.
Max, this motel is the pits, I will not sleep here!
2. The end of the road, the point of no return, the point of total ruin of one's health (from […]
[the powers that be] {n. phr.}
Constituted authority; those in power.
I have done all I can; the rest is up to the powers that be.
[the ropes] {n. plural}, {informal}
Thorough or special knowledge of a job; how to do something; the ways of people or the world.
On a newspaper a cub reporter learns his job from an older reporter who knows the ropes.
* /When you go to a new […]
[the score] {n.}, {slang}
The truth; the real story or information; what is really happening; the way people and the world really are.
Very few people know the score in politics.
You are too young to know the score yet.
* /What's the score […]
[the three R's] {n. phr.}
(W)riting, reading, and (a)rithmetic, the three basic skills of an elementary education.
Barry has completed the three R's, but otherwise he has had little formal education.
[the ticket] {n.}
Exactly what is needed. — Often used with "just".
This airtight locker is just the ticket for storing your winter clothes.
[the tracks] {n.}
The line between the rich or fashionable part of town and the poor or unfashionable part of town.
The poor children knew they would not be welcome on the other side of the tracks.
* /Mary's mother did not want her to date Jack, […]