TO TREAT SOMEONE WITH KID GLOVES is to handle that person cautiously or gently. Often the idiom is used in the sense of not offending a powerful person. Jakarta Post: <>
LAND ON YOUR FEET: to recover after a setback. This may be literal—we say that when cats fall, they always land on their feet. But the expression can be used for any setback, not just for a physical fall. Detroit Free Press headline: <>
LET IT ALL HANG OUT: talk in an uninhibited manner. "Sure, all of us enjoy poking fun at our loquacious, irrepressible, unpredictable vice president. Unlike most high-level pols [politicians], and certainly unlike anyone else in this administration, Joe [Biden] likes to let it all hang out."—Michelle Cottle, Daily Beast news site
HORSE TRADING: vote swapping among groups in a legislative body, political negotiations. Agence France Presse: << Pakistani party leader Makhdoom Shahabuddin] was the consensus choice following more than 24 hours of crisis talks and intense horse trading between Zardari and members of his fractious ruling coalition.>>
IN FULL SWING: fully underway, happening now. Jakarta Globe: <>
To MOVE THE GOALPOSTS is to change the rules or the goal in the middle of a negotiation. This probably comes from American football, but I think it's used in Britain now too. CBS News: <> (To "spike the football," by the way, is to bounce the football hard as a way of rejoicing over a touchdown or a victory.)
WET BEHIND THE EARS: inexperienced. Sunday Herald (Scotland): <>
THE UPPER HAND: an advantage, a dominant position. Reuters: <>
To GIVE SOMEONE A HAND has two meanings:
1) to assist someone (for this you can also say "lend a hand"), and
2) applaud.
Example: Our English teacher, Mr Devid give the weak students a hand.
➤ Read more idioms and phrases, English grammar and vocabulary at Basic English Grammar And Vocabulary .You might also like ⏬
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➤ Idioms of Expression
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➤ Origin of Idioms
➤ Proverbs
➤ Idioms on Situation
➤ Idioms on Temperature
LAND ON YOUR FEET: to recover after a setback. This may be literal—we say that when cats fall, they always land on their feet. But the expression can be used for any setback, not just for a physical fall. Detroit Free Press headline: <
LET IT ALL HANG OUT: talk in an uninhibited manner. "Sure, all of us enjoy poking fun at our loquacious, irrepressible, unpredictable vice president. Unlike most high-level pols [politicians], and certainly unlike anyone else in this administration, Joe [Biden] likes to let it all hang out."—Michelle Cottle, Daily Beast news site
HORSE TRADING: vote swapping among groups in a legislative body, political negotiations. Agence France Presse: << Pakistani party leader Makhdoom Shahabuddin] was the consensus choice following more than 24 hours of crisis talks and intense horse trading between Zardari and members of his fractious ruling coalition.>>
IN FULL SWING: fully underway, happening now. Jakarta Globe: <
To MOVE THE GOALPOSTS is to change the rules or the goal in the middle of a negotiation. This probably comes from American football, but I think it's used in Britain now too. CBS News: <
WET BEHIND THE EARS: inexperienced. Sunday Herald (Scotland): <
THE UPPER HAND: an advantage, a dominant position. Reuters: <
To GIVE SOMEONE A HAND has two meanings:
1) to assist someone (for this you can also say "lend a hand"), and
2) applaud.
Example: Our English teacher, Mr Devid give the weak students a hand.
➤ Read more idioms and phrases, English grammar and vocabulary at Basic English Grammar And Vocabulary .You might also like ⏬
➤ Book of Idioms
➤ Idioms about Animals
➤ Idioms of Expression
➤ Idioms on Food
➤ Idiomatic Expressions
➤ Origin of Idioms
➤ Proverbs
➤ Idioms on Situation
➤ Idioms on Temperature
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