24-letter words containing o, h, e, n
- to rise to the challenge — If someone rises to the challenge, they act in response to a difficult situation which is new to them and are successful.
- to set fire to something — If you set fire to something or if you set it on fire, you start it burning in order to damage or destroy it.
- to show someone the door — If someone shows you the door, they ask you to leave because they are angry with you.
- tools of one's/the trade — The tools of your trade or the tools of the trade are the skills, instruments, and other equipment that you need in order to do your job properly.
- transpersonal psychology — a branch of psychology or psychotherapy that recognizes altered states of consciousness and transcendent experiences as a means to understand the human mind and treat psychological disordrs.
- tug/touch one's forelock — If you say that a person tugs their forelock to another person, you are criticizing them for showing too much respect to the second person or being unnecessarily worried about their opinions.
- twenty-four-hour service — a banking service that is always available
- two/three/four of a kind — If you refer, for example, to two, three, or four of a kind, you mean two, three, or four similar people or things that seem to go well or belong together.
- under the sway of sb/sth — If you are under the sway of someone or something, they have great influence over you.
- until the cows come home — the mature female of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos.
- vienna definition method — Vienna Development Method
- virtual home environment — (VHE) A tool for using NFS on HP UX.
- voluntary aid detachment — (in World War I) an organization of British women volunteers who assisted in military hospitals and ambulance duties
- webster-ashburton treaty — U.S. History. an agreement between the U.S. and England (1842) defining the boundary between British and American territory from Maine to present-day Minnesota.
- what are you playing at? — If you ask what someone is playing at, you are angry because you think they are doing something stupid or wrong.
- what are you waiting for — If you say to someone 'What are you waiting for?' you are telling them to hurry up and do something.
- when one's ship comes in — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- when push comes to shove — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- when the balloon goes up — when the trouble or action begins
- where one is coming from — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- which way the wind blows — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
- wolf in sheep's clothing — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- work/go/run like a charm — If you say that something worked like a charm, you mean that it was very effective or successful.
- your heart is not in sth — If your heart isn't in the thing you are doing, you have very little enthusiasm for it, usually because you are depressed or are thinking about something else.