T
Idioms beginning with "T"
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[third class] {n.}
1. The third best or highest group; the class next after the second class.
Mary won the pie-making contest in the third class, for the youngest girls.
2. Mail that is printed, other than magazines and newspapers that are […]
[third degree] {n. phr.}
A method of severe grilling used to extract information from an arrested suspect.
"Why give me the third degree?" he asked indignantly. "All I did was come home late because I had a drink with my friends."
[third sex] {n.}, {euphemism}, {slang}, {informal}
Homosexual individuals who are either men or women.
Billy is rumored to belong to the third sex.
[third world] {n.}
1. The countries not aligned with either the former U.S.S.R.-dominated Communist bloc or the U.S.A.-dominated capitalist countries.
* /New Zealand made a move toward third country status when it disallowed American nuclear submarines […]
[third-class(1)] {adj.}
Belonging to the third class; of the third highest or best class.
Much advertising is sent by third-class mall.
I bought a third-class airline ticket to Hawaii.
[third-class] (2) {adv.}
By third class.
How did you send the package? Third class.
We traveled third-class on the train.
[this and that] also [this, that, and the other] {n. phr.}
Various things; different things; miscellaneous things.
When the old friends met they would talk about this and that.
The quilt was made of this, that, and the other.
[this is how the cookie crumbles] or [that's how the cookie crumbles] {v. phr.}, {informal}
That's how things are; that's life.
It's too bad about John and Mary getting divorced, but then that's how the cookie crumbles.