25-letter words containing o, f, s, h, t
- out of sight, out of mind — If you say 'out of sight, out of mind', you mean that people quickly forget someone if he or she goes away.
- put sth out of its misery — If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.
- ruffle someone's feathers — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- saint joseph of arimathea — a wealthy member of the Sanhedrin, who obtained the body of Jesus after the Crucifixion and laid it in his own tomb (Matthew 27:57–60). Feast day: Mar 17 or July 31
- shoot oneself in the foot — to damage one's own cause inadvertently
- slip/fall through the net — You use slip through the net or fall through the net to describe a situation where people are not properly cared for by the system that is intended to help them.
- software through pictures — (programming, tool) (StP) A set of CASE tools distributed by Aonix.
- take the sting out of sth — If something takes the sting out of a situation, it makes it less unpleasant.
- take up the cudgels (for) — to come to the defense (of)
- tess of the d'urbervilles — a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy.
- the calm before the storm — You can use the calm before the storm to refer to a quiet period in which there is little or no activity, before a period in which there is a lot of trouble or intense activity.
- the department of defense — the United States federal department concerned with national security
- the first epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John which counters claims that Jesus Christ came only in spirit and not in the flesh
- the high priestess of sth — if you call a woman the high priestess of a particular thing, you are saying in a slightly mocking way that she is considered by people to be expert in that thing
- the knives are out for sb — If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person.
- the leaning tower of pisa — the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral
- the mother of parliaments — the British Parliament: the model and creator of many other Parliaments
- the scholastic profession — the profession of teaching
- the third epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John and addressed to a man called Gaius, who is praised in the letter
- the trash heap of history — a figurative or imaginative place where forgotten things or people go
- there are no flies on him — he is no fool
- throw dust in the eyes of — to confuse or mislead
- to catch sight of someone — If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
- to have irons in the fire — If someone has a lot of irons in the fire, they are involved in several different activities or have several different plans.
- under the aegis of sb/sth — Something that is done under the aegis of a person or organization is done with their official support and backing.