G’day all,
I’ll add a couple too.
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Pa> From: "Partington" <Parting…@kbnet.co.uk>
Pa> I don’t know if these are the answers you are looking for. That’s
the
Pa> trouble with idioms; they can mean different things in different
Pa> contexts.
Pa> petrovi…@my-deja.com wrote in article
Pa> <81q1l5$tp…@nnrp1.deja.com>…
> I’m looking for idioms with numbers.
Pa> For example, what is the meaning
> of the following:
> > twelve month - a year
> twenty-four hour – a day / a clock that gives the time digitally
and uses
Pa> 13.00 for 1 p.m. and so on / an event that takes 24 hours to
complete
> eighty-eight
= a piano
> sixty-four-thousand-dollar question a question worth answering> >
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> > one-liner – a short and witty joke
> in two shakes of a lamb’s tail – a very short time
> three-dog night
= comes from Australia. The Aboriginis sleep with the dogs. In cold
weather more than one dog is needed to keep one warm.
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> on all fours- kneeling down with your hands on the floor too
> take five – have a short break (five minutes)
> six of one and a half dozen of the other = equal to each other
> seven seas – the oceans of the world
> eight-hour day – normal working day e.g. 9 – 5
> on cloud nine – very happy – up wioth the angels
> top 10 – the items voted as the ten best of a catregory
> eleventh hour – very near the end of the time available
> twelve month
> catch-22 – the title of a book – it means a situation in which no
one can win
> twenty-three skidoo
> twenty-four hour
> forty winks – a short sleep
> fifty-fifty – half and half = equal (like six and two threes)
> eighty-eight
= a piano
> ninety-nine times out of a hundred – most times – 99% of the time
> hundred and one – lots
> one hundred percent – complete
> thousand and one – lots and lots
> sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
> feel like a million (dollars) feel good
> a million to one – an unlikely event – these are the gambling odds
you
Pa> would get from a bookmaker
= you bet one unit and, if you win, get back 1,000,001 units.
> From Phillipa
John.
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