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

Adjective
=|pull my finger|=
 * 1) offended, repulsed
 * 2) daunted or fazed

Verb
=|pitch woo|=

Verb
=|on the pull|=
 * 1)  to court
 * 2) to make love
 * 3) to flatter

Prepositional phrase
=|oh dark thirty|=
 * 1)  Out seeking a sexual partner.

Noun
=|nickel-and-dime|=
 * 1) Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)

Verb
=|my arse|=

Interjection
=|low blow|=
 * 1)  Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.

Noun
=|knock down|=
 * 1)  An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist; a groin attack.
 * 2)  Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.

Verb
=|head south|=
 * 1)  To hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
 * 2)  To demolish.
 * 3)  At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
 * 4)  To reduce the price of.
 * 5) To drink fast.
 * 6)  To disassemble for shipment.

Verb
=|head over heels|=

Adverb
=|golden duck|=
 * 1) Tumbling upside down.
 * 2) At top speed; frantically.
 * 3) Hopelessly smitten.

Noun
=|go off|=
 * 1)  the score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced

Verb
=|get stuck into|=
 * 1)  To explode.
 * 2)  To fire, especially accidentally.
 * 3)  To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
 * 4)  To begin clanging or making noise.
 * 5)  To depart; to leave.
 * 6)  To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
 * 7)  To like less.
 * 8)  To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
 * 9)  To ejaculate.

Verb
=|get into trouble|=
 * 1)  Get busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.
 * 2)  To start eating.
 * 3)  To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.

Verb
=|full whack|=
 * 1)  To be punished for doing something illegal or prohibited.
 * 2)  To fall into difficulty.
 * 3)  To become pregnant; to make pregnant.

Noun

 * 1)  The entire amount.

Adverb
=|walk the plank|=
 * 1)  To the maximum extent.

Verb
=|turn on|=
 * 1)  On a pirate ship, to walk off a plank of wood into the ocean. Used as a method of killing.
 * 2)  To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.

Verb
=|thumb one's nose|=
 * 1)  To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
 * 2)  To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
 * 3)  To start operating; to power up, to become on.
 * 4)  To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
 * 5)  To sexually arouse.
 * 6)  To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
 * 7)  To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle.
 * 8)  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.

Verb
=|take the mickey|=
 * 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)  To act disrespectfully, especially by flouting the object of disrespect.

Verb
=|put the bee on|=
 * 1)  To ridicule or mock.

Verb
=|put out|=
 * 1)  to finish off, to beat
 * 2)  to beg; to borrow money from

Noun

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

Adjective

 * 1) Taking offense; indignant.

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

Verb
=|double Dutch|=
 * 1) to retreat from a position
 * 2) to move backwards
 * 3) to withdraw from an undertaking
 * 4) to pull something back or apart

Noun
=|country mile|=
 * 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)  Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.

Noun
=|bring about|=
 * 1)  A long way, a great distance.

Verb
=|one step at a time|=
 * 1)  To cause to take place.
 * 2)  To accomplish, achieve.

Adverb
=|cause a stir|=
 * 1) Slowly and steadily. Without rushing.

Verb
=|all and sundry|=
 * 1)  To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.

Pronoun
=|damn by association|=
 * 1)  All; everyone.
 * 2)  Each one.

Verb
=|miss the mark|=
 * 1)  To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.

Verb
=|bankers' hours|=
 * 1)  To fail to hit the target.
 * 2)  To fail to achieve the intended result.

Noun
=|rule of thumb|=
 * 1) Time period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. of a day.
 * 2)  Any easy job, especially one with a short working day.

Noun
=|off the table|=
 * 1) A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge.
 * 2)  Approximated, guesstimated.

Prepositional phrase
=|parade of horribles|=
 * 1) Beyond consideration.

Noun
=|fencepost problem|=
 * 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.

Noun
=|Holy of Holies|=
 * 1)  A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.

Proper noun
=|kicking and screaming|=
 * 1) The most sacred place within a sacred building.
 * 2)  One's private retreat, inner sanctum.

Adverb
=|eye of the beholder|=
 * 1) With extreme reluctance.

Noun
=|Lord's Supper|=
 * 1) The subjective perception and judgement of the person seeing or considering something.

Proper noun
=|Last Supper|=
 * 1)  Eucharist
 * 2)  The Last Supper at Passover of Jesus with his disciples.

Proper noun

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

Noun
=|Lion of Judah|=
 * 1) An artistic representation of this event.

Proper noun
=|by and large|=
 * 1)  Jesus Christ
 * 2)  the emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

Adverb
=|in thunderation|=
 * 1)  mostly, generally; with few exceptions

Prepositional phrase
=|take the Michael|=
 * 1)  In any set of circumstances whatsoever.

Verb
=|take the mick|=
 * 1)  alternative form of take the mickey, usually considered more polite.

Verb
=|mess up|=

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

Verb
=|eat one's young|=
 * 1)  To fire (an employee); to terminate the employment of.

Verb
=|carry the message to Garcia|=
 * 1) To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation.

Verb
=|bone dry|=
 * 1)  To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.
 * 2)  To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.

Adjective
=|deliver the message to Garcia|=

Verb
=|last trump|=

Noun
=|like it or lump it|=
 * 1) The moment of God's final judgement on Earth.
 * 2)  A time that will never come; forever.

Verb
=|lump to one's throat|=
 * 1) to accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.

Noun
=|one at a time|=
 * 1) On the point of crying due to strong emotion, either happy or sad.

Adverb
=|back-cloth star|=

Noun
=|butterfly upon a wheel|=
 * 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.

Noun
=|cat and dog life|=
 * 1) An innocent person (usually a female) crushed by life's adversities.

Noun
=|cat in the sack|=
 * 1) Unhappy married life.

Noun
=|smart chance|=
 * 1) Something to be suspicious of.

Noun
=|all over oneself|=
 * 1)  A substantial quantity of something.

Phrase
=|thief in the night|=
 * 1) Feeling self-satisfied.

Noun
=|light up|=
 * 1) Something stealthy or that occurs without warning.

Verb
=|sort out|=
 * 1)  To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
 * 2)  To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
 * 3)  To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
 * 4)  To make happy.
 * 5)  To open fire on a target or group of targets.
 * 6)  To shock (someone) with a stun gun.

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

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

Verb
=|turn up|=
 * 1)  To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
 * 2) To return to a previous state of being.
 * 3)  To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
 * 4)  To adjust to a previous setting.
 * 5)  To fold something back; to fold down.
 * 6)  To give back; to return.

Verb

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

Noun
=|drug of choice|=
 * 1) A stroke of good luck.

Noun
=|chomp at the bit|=
 * 1)  The particular (usually illicit) substance that a person is addicted to.
 * 2) The best-choice medication to treat a particular medical problem.

Verb
=|Chinaman on one's back|=
 * 1)  To show impatience or frustration when delayed.

Noun
=|rag the puck|=
 * 1)  A drug addiction.
 * 2)  Withdrawal symptoms.

Verb
=|hustle and bustle|=
 * 1)  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)  To proceed slowly at an activity in order to use up time; to stall for time.

Noun

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