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26-letter words containing a, d, t, o, h

  • to rub salt into the wound — If someone or something rubs salt into the wound, they make the unpleasant situation that you are in even worse, often by reminding you of your failures or faults.
  • to set the record straight — If you set the record straight or put the record straight, you show that something which has been regarded as true is in fact not true.
  • to steal someone's thunder — If you steal someone's thunder, you get the attention or praise that they thought they would get, usually by saying or doing what they had intended to say or do.
  • to throw down the gauntlet — If you throw down the gauntlet to someone, you say or do something that challenges them to argue or compete with you.
  • turn something on its head — to treat or present something in a completely new and different way
  • two sides of the same coin — opposite but connected ideas
  • walther von der vogelweide — c1170–c1230, German minnesinger and poet.
  • what someone is driving at — If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly.
  • won't/wouldn't hear of sth — If you say that you won't hear of someone doing something, you mean that you refuse to let them do it.
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