28-letter words containing a, t, h, b
- a shot across someone's bows — a warning
- a stick to beat someone with — If you say that something is a stick to beat someone with, you mean that it is used, or could be used, as a basis for criticism.
- antidisestablishmentarianism — opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
- arms akimbo/with arms akimbo — If you stand arms akimbo or with arms akimbo, you stand with your hands on your hips and your elbows pointing outwards.
- as happy etc as can/could be — If someone or something is, for example, as happy as can be or as quiet as could be, they are extremely happy or extremely quiet.
- bath and north east somerset — a unitary authority in SW England, in Somerset; formerly (1974–96) part of the county of Avon. Pop: 170 900 (2003 est). Area: 351 sq km (136 sq miles)
- be gathered to one's fathers — to die
- be hard put/pushed to do sth — If someone is hard put to do something or, in British English if they are hard pushed to do something, they have great difficulty doing it.
- benign prostatic hyperplasia — a benign condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged due to an increase in the number of prostatic cells, usually affecting the flow of urine.
- between scylla and charybdis — in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
- beyond the shadow of a doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- bite the hand that feeds one — to repay kindness with injury or ingratitude
- bite your nails to the quick — If someone bites their nails to the quick, they bite off all the white part at the end of each nail.
- bright eyed and bushy tailed — having bright eyes.
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed — keen, confident, and alert
- bring a child into the world — If a woman brings a child into the world, she gives birth to it.
- british standard fine thread — a screw thread having a Whitworth profile but a finer pitch for a given diameter
- british standard pipe thread — a screw thread of Whitworth profile used for piping and designated by the bore of the pipe
- burn the candle at both ends — to exhaust oneself, esp by being up late and getting up early to work
- by main force (or strength) — by sheer force (or strength)
- chief cook and bottle washer — chief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.
- disability rights commission — (in Britain) a body appointed by the Government to enforce anti-discrimination law affecting people with disabilities
- eat sb out of house and home — If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them.
- hot standby routing protocol — (protocol) (HSRP) A CISCO standard, defined in RFC 2281, that calls for a mirrored router in passive mode to send hello packets, wait for a lead router to die and, without dropping a packet, take over from that router. Note: "standby", not "swappable" (and certainly not "swapable").
- hydrolysed vegetable protein — a powder or liquid that is produced by boiling legumes or cereals in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing with sodium hydroxide. It is used as a flavouring in some foods, such as soups and bouillon cubes
- hydrolyzed vegetable protein — a vegetable protein broken down into amino acids and used as a food additive to enhance flavor, especially in soups, sauces, and processed meats. Abbreviation: HVP, H.V.P.
- it's a good job/a good thing — If you say it's a good thing that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
- keep a weather eye on sb/sth — If you keep a weather eye on someone or something, you stay alert so that you will notice if anything unpleasant happens.
- light the (blue) touch paper — If someone lights the touch paper or lights the blue touch paper, they do something which causes anger or excitement.
- like a lamb to the slaughter — without resistance
- methylphenylcarbinyl acetate — a colorless, synthetic liquid, C 1 0 H 1 2 O 2 , having a strong floral odor and occurring in oil of gardenia: used chiefly in gardenia and lily perfumes.
- national physical laboratory — a UK establishment founded in 1900 at Teddington to carry out research in physics and monitor standards of measurement
- phenylmethylcarbinyl acetate — methylphenylcarbinyl acetate.
- playboy of the western world — a satiric comedy (1907) by John Millington Synge.
- put one's cards on the table — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- rise/come back from the dead — If you say that someone or something rises or comes back from the dead, you mean that they become active or successful again after being inactive for a while.
- roundheaded apple tree borer — apple tree borer (def 2).
- the obscene publications act — a group of obscenity laws that determines what can be published in Britain
- to give somebody a thick ear — to hit sb on the ear or head
- to handle sb with kid gloves — to treat someone with great tact or caution
- to have a bee in your bonnet — If you have a bee in your bonnet about something, you are so enthusiastic or worried about it that you keep mentioning it or thinking about it.
- to throw the book at someone — If someone in authority throws the book at someone who has committed an offence, they give the offender the greatest punishment that they are allowed to.
- to throw the rule book at sb — to inflict the most severe punishment on someone
- until sb is blue in the face — If you say that someone can do something until they are blue in the face, you are emphasizing that however much they do it, it will not make any difference.
- wouldn't be seen/caught dead — If you say that you wouldn't be seen dead or be caught dead in particular clothes, places, or situations, you are expressing strong dislike or disapproval of them.
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