32-letter words containing o, p, u
- to poke your nose into something — If someone pokes their nose into something or sticks their nose into something, they try to interfere with it even though it does not concern them.
- to put the cart before the horse — If you say that someone is putting the cart before the horse, you mean that they are doing things in the wrong order.
- to put the cat among the pigeons — If you put the cat among the pigeons or set the cat among the pigeons, you cause fierce argument or discussion by doing or saying something.
- transaction application language — (language) (TAL) Not "Tandem Application Language". A block-structured, procedural language optimised for use on Tandem hardware. TAL is a cross between C and Pascal and is the primary system programming language on Tandem computers. Tandem has no assembler and originally had no C or Pascal.
- turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
- united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- win one's spurs/earn one's spurs — If you win your spurs or earn your spurs, you achieve a particular status by proving that you can do something skilfully.
- workmen's compensation insurance — workers' compensation insurance.