26-letter words containing h, u, m, a
- to laugh in someone's face — If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
- to spare someone's blushes — If you spare someone's blushes or save someone's blushes, you avoid doing or saying something that will embarrass them.
- 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 work your way somewhere — If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
- turn something on its head — to treat or present something in a completely new and different way
- turn the tables on someone — to cause a complete reversal of circumstances, esp to defeat or get the better of someone who was previously in a stronger position