22-letter words containing k, h, n
- rubber-chicken circuit — a monotonous round of dinners, often featuring chicken, that a lecturer or political candidate is obliged to attend.
- search the fucking web — (web, jargon) (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
- second-hand bookseller — a person who has a second-hand bookshop
- shaken but not stirred — If you say that someone has been shaken but not stirred by an experience, you mean that they have been slightly disturbed or emotionally affected by it, but not deeply enough to change their behaviour or way of thinking.
- short end of the stick — a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.
- skeleton in the closet — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- take a fancy to sb/sth — If you take a fancy to someone or something, you start liking them, usually for no understandable reason.
- take cognizance of sth — If you take cognizance of something, you take notice of it or acknowledge it.
- take one's breath away — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
- talk through one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- threespine stickleback — a widely distributed stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, occurring in marine, brackish, or fresh waters throughout the northern hemisphere.
- through thick and thin — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- to awaken to something — to become aware of something
- to make the front page — if something 'makes the front page' it is printed on the first page of a newspaper
- wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
- your neck of the woods — Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are.