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English Idioms :: too
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tooch.html - See: EAT ONE'S CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO. |
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English Idioms :: too ---- by half
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tooch.html - {adj.} ({princ. British}) Much too; excessively. * /The heroine of the story is too nice by half; she is not believable./ |
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English Idioms :: too bad
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tooch.html - {adj.} To be regretted; worthy of sorrow or regret; regrettable. - Used as a predicate. * /It is too bad that we are so often lazy./ * /It was too bad Bill had measles when the circus came to town./ |
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English Idioms :: too big for one's boots
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tooch.html - {adj. phr.} Too sure of your own importance; feeling more important than you really are. * /That boy had grown too big for his breeches. I'll have to put him back in his place./ * /When the teacher made Bob a monitor, he got too big for his boots and she had to warn him./ |
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English Idioms :: too close for comfort
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tooch.html - {adj. phr.} Perilously near (said of bad things). * /When the sniper's bullet hit the road the journalist exclaimed, "Gosh, that was too close for comfort!"/ Compare: CLOSE CALL, CLOSE SHAVE. |
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English Idioms :: too many irons in the fire
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tooch.html - See: IRONS IN THE FIRE. |
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