26-letter words containing h, o, f, e
- to catch hold of something — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
- to get off your high horse — if you tell someone to, or suggest that someone should, get off their high horse, you are suggesting they stop behaving in a superior manner
- to hold someone for ransom — If a kidnapper is holding a person for ransom, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want.
- to laugh in someone's face — If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
- to lay oneself open to sth — If you lay yourself open to criticism or attack, or if something lays you open to it, something you do makes it possible or likely that other people will criticize or attack you.
- to see the back of someone — If you say that you will be glad to see the back of someone, you mean that you want them to leave.
- to soften/cushion the blow — Something that softens the blow or cushions the blow makes an unpleasant change or piece of news easier to accept.
- too big for one's breeches — Also called knee breeches. knee-length trousers, often having ornamental buckles or elaborate decoration at or near the bottoms, commonly worn by men and boys in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.
- two sides of the same coin — opposite but connected ideas
- within range, out of range — If something is in range or within range, it is near enough to be reached or detected. If it is out of range, it is too far away to be reached or detected.
- 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.
- zermelo fränkel set theory — (mathematics) A set theory with the axioms of Zermelo set theory (Extensionality, Union, Pair-set, Foundation, Restriction, Infinity, Power-set) plus the Replacement axiom schema: If F(x,y) is a formula such that for any x, there is a unique y making F true, and X is a set, then {F x : x in X} is a set. In other words, if you do something to each element of a set, the result is a set. An important but controversial axiom which is NOT part of ZF theory is the Axiom of Choice.