to bother, to annoy. She's driving me up a frickin' tree. She's driving me up a tree today!
Take a powder is an idiom that became popular during the 1920s. We will examine the meaning of the idiom take a powder, where it may have from, and some examples of its use in sentences. To take a powder means to leave abruptly, to disappear, to hide out, to avoid contact with others.
informal. —used to tell someone to calm down or be more patient "Aren't you ready yet?" "Keep your shirt on!I'll be ready in a minute."
We use the expression “barking up the wrong tree†as a metaphor to describe when someone is trying to achieve something but they're doing it in the wrong way (or they are trying to get something but they will not be successful).
Meaning – Feeling wonderful. This idiom can be used when you are feeling ecstatic, glorious or delighted.
informal. : to be too expensive I want a new car that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
: a difficult or dangerous situation : trouble entry 1 sense 4 —used with in or into But this poor fellow was always getting into hot water, and if there was a wrong way of doing a thing, was sure to hit upon it.—
Definition of the best of both worlds: all the advantages of two different situations and none of the disadvantages I have the best of both worlds—a wonderful family and a great job.
Be depressed or sad, as in I was really feeling blue after she told me she was leaving. The use of blue to mean “sad” dates from the late 1300s.
—used to say that time passes quickly Your son is in high school already? My, how time flies!
“Cats and dogs” may come from the Greek expression cata doxa, which means “contrary to experience or belief.” If it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually or unbelievably hard. So, to say it's raining “cats and dogs” might be to say it's raining waterfalls.
If you treat someone or something with kid gloves, or if you give them the kid glove treatment, you are very careful in the way you deal with them. In presidential campaigns, foreign policy is treated with kid gloves.
If someone is or feels under the weather, he or she does not feel well: I'm feeling a little under the weather - I think I'm getting a cold. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Being & falling ill.
