User:Sobreira/IdiomsProbas

An example of the first 73 idioms from exporting Category:English idioms through Special:Export and parsed with VB for Word to extract definitions only:

|put off|

Verb

1. (transitive) To procrastinate.
2. (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
3. (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
4. (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
5. (transitive, archaic) To take off (something worn).

Adjective

1. offended, repulsed
2. daunted or fazed

|pull my finger|

Verb

1. A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which someone is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the ensuing expulsion of gas.

|pitch woo|

Verb

1. (archaic) to court
2. to make love
3. to flatter

|on the pull|

Prepositional phrase

1. (British, slang) Out seeking a sexual partner.

|oh dark thirty|

Noun

1. Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)

|nickel-and-dime|

Adjective

1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

Verb

1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

|my arse|

Interjection

1. (slang, British) Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.

|low blow|

Noun

1. (boxing) An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist; a groin attack.
2. (figurative, by extension) Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.

|knock down|

Verb

1. (transitive) To hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
2. (transitive) To demolish.
3. (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
4. (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
5. To drink fast.
6. (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.

|head south|

Verb

1. Alternative form of go south

|head over heels|

Adverb

1. Tumbling upside down.
2. At top speed; frantically.
3. Hopelessly smitten.

|golden duck|

Noun

1. (cricket) the score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced

|go off|

Verb

1. (intransitive) To explode.
2. (intransitive) To fire, especially accidentally.
3. (intransitive) To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
4. (intransitive) To begin clanging or making noise.
5. (intransitive) To depart; to leave.
6. (intransitive, UK, Australia) To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
7. (transitive) To like less.
8. (intransitive) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
9. (slang) To ejaculate.

|get stuck into|

Verb

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Get busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.
2. (UK) To start eating.
3. (Australia) To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.

|get into trouble|

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be punished for doing something illegal or prohibited.
2. (intransitive) To fall into difficulty.
3. (slang, euphemistic, usually said of an unmarried woman) To become pregnant; to make pregnant.

|full whack|

Noun

1. (slang) The entire amount.

Adverb

1. (slang) To the maximum extent.

|walk the plank|

Verb

1. (historical) On a pirate ship, to walk off a plank of wood into the ocean. Used as a method of killing.
2. (figuratively) To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.

|turn on|

Verb

1. (transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve. [from 19th c.]
2. (transitive) To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
3. (intransitive, of a device) To start operating; to power up, to become on. [from 19th c.]
4. (transitive) To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement). [from 20th c.]
5. (transitive) To sexually arouse. [from 20th c.]
6. (transitive, slang) To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
8. (intransitive) To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle). [from 19th c.]
9. (intransitive) To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle). [from 17th c.]

|thumb one's nose|

Verb

1. To place a thumb upon the tip of the nose, typically with the fingers spread and while simultaneously wiggling one's fingers, in a gesture of disrespect.
2. (figuratively) To act disrespectfully, especially by flouting the object of disrespect.

|take the mickey|

Verb

1. (intransitive, British, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.

|put the bee on|

Verb

1. (slang, chiefly US) to finish off, to beat
2. (slang, chiefly US) to beg; to borrow money from

|put out|

Noun

1. (baseball) The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.

Adjective

1. Taking offense; indignant.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place outside or eject.
2. (transitive) To produce.
3. (transitive) To injure a part of the body, especially a joint.
4. (transitive) To inconvenience or disturb someone, such as by moving in or requesting assistance.
5. (transitive) To extinguish (a flame or light).
6. (transitive) To eliminate from a competition.
7. (slang, intransitive) To consent to sex.
8. (baseball) To cause a player on the offense to be out, especially of men on base.
9. (cricket) To cause a batsman (a player on the batting team) to be dismissed or out.
10. To sail away, to depart.

|draw back|

Verb

1. to retreat from a position
2. to move backwards
3. to withdraw from an undertaking
4. to pull something back or apart

|double Dutch|

Noun

1. Incomprehensible language.
2. A language game akin to pig Latin.
3. A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
4. (colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.

|country mile|

Noun

1. (informal) A long way, a great distance.

|bring about|

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to take place.
2. (transitive) To accomplish, achieve.

|one step at a time|

Adverb

1. Slowly and steadily. Without rushing.

|cause a stir|

Verb

1. (intransitive) To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.

|all and sundry|

Pronoun

1. (collectively) All; everyone.
2. (separately) Each one.

|damn by association|

Verb

1. (transitive) To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.

|miss the mark|

Verb

1. (of a projectile) To fail to hit the target.
2. (figurative) To fail to achieve the intended result.

|bankers' hours|

Noun

1. Time period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. of a day.
2. (figuratively) Any easy job, especially one with a short working day.

|rule of thumb|

Noun

1. A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge.
2. (attributive, usually hyphenated) Approximated, guesstimated.

|off the table|

Prepositional phrase

1. Beyond consideration.

|parade of horribles|

Noun

1. A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes.
2. A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.

|fencepost problem|

Noun

1. (programming) A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.

|Holy of Holies|

Proper noun

1. The most sacred place within a sacred building.
2. (informal, humorous) One's private retreat, inner sanctum.

|kicking and screaming|

Adverb

1. With extreme reluctance.

|eye of the beholder|

Noun

1. The subjective perception and judgement of the person seeing or considering something.

|Lord's Supper|

Proper noun

1. (Christianity) Eucharist
2. (Christianity) The Last Supper at Passover of Jesus with his disciples.

|Last Supper|

Proper noun

1. (Christianity) The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.

Noun

1. An artistic representation of this event.

|Lion of Judah|

Proper noun

1. (Christianity) Jesus Christ
2. (Rastafari) the emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

|by and large|

Adverb

1. (set phrase, focus) mostly, generally; with few exceptions

|in thunderation|

Prepositional phrase

1. (US, colloquial) In any set of circumstances whatsoever.

|take the Michael|

Verb

1. (intransitive, euphemistic) alternative form of take the mickey, usually considered more polite.

|take the mick|

Verb

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of take the mickey

|mess up|

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
2. (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
3. (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
4. (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
5. (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
6. (transitive) To damage; injure.
7. (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
8. (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

|give the elbow|

Verb

1. (transitive, slang, British) To fire (an employee); to terminate the employment of.

|eat one's young|

Verb

1. To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation.

|carry the message to Garcia|

Verb

1. (intransitive, dated) To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.
2. (intransitive, dated) To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.

|bone dry|

Adjective

1. Alternative form of bone-dry

|deliver the message to Garcia|

Verb

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of carry the message to Garcia

|last trump|

Noun

1. The moment of God's final judgement on Earth.
2. (by extension) A time that will never come; forever.

|like it or lump it|

Verb

1. to accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.

|lump to one's throat|

Noun

1. On the point of crying due to strong emotion, either happy or sad.

|one at a time|

Adverb

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one,‎ at a time.

|back-cloth star|

Noun

1. An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.

|butterfly upon a wheel|

Noun

1. An innocent person (usually a female) crushed by life's adversities.

|cat and dog life|

Noun

1. Unhappy married life.

|cat in the sack|

Noun

1. Something to be suspicious of.

|smart chance|

Noun

1. (US, colloquial) A substantial quantity of something.

|all over oneself|

Phrase

1. Feeling self-satisfied.

|thief in the night|

Noun

1. Something stealthy or that occurs without warning.

|light up|

Verb

1. (transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
2. (transitive) To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
3. (intransitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
4. (transitive) To make happy.
5. (transitive, slang) To open fire on a target or group of targets.
6. (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To shock (someone) with a stun gun.

|sort out|

Verb

1. (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
2. (transitive) To arrange.
3. (transitive) To fix, as a problem.
4. (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
5. (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
6. (transitive, British, slang) To attack physically.
7. (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.

|turn off|

Verb

1. (transitive) To power down, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
2. (transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
3. (transitive) To repulse, disgust, or discourage.
4. (intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.

|turn back|

Verb

1. (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
2. To return to a previous state of being.
3. (transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
4. (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
5. (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.

|turn up|

Verb

1. (intransitive) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
2. (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
3. (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
4. (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
5. (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
6. (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.

Noun

1. A stroke of good luck.

|drug of choice|

Noun

1. (law, narcotics) The particular (usually illicit) substance that a person is addicted to.
2. The best-choice medication to treat a particular medical problem.

|chomp at the bit|

Verb

1. (intransitive) To show impatience or frustration when delayed.

|Chinaman on one's back|

Noun

1. (slang) A drug addiction.
2. (slang) Withdrawal symptoms.

|rag the puck|

Verb

1. (ice hockey) To retain possession of the puck by skillful skating and stickhandling without attempting to score, as a deliberate tactic intended to use up time.
2. (chiefly Canada, by extension) To proceed slowly at an activity in order to use up time; to stall for time.

|hustle and bustle|

Noun

1. A large amount of activity and work, usually in a noisy surrounding.