“in the”

The following 304 entries include the term in the.

Entries 106–120 of 304

peg in the ring

: a game of spinning a peg top within the bounds of a marked-out circle

puss in the corner

: a game in which all players but one occupy goals (as the corners of a room) and at a signal try to exchange places before the one having no place of his own can reach one of the vacant goals

quick-in-the-hand

noun

Rejoicing in the Law

: simhath torah

spit in the ocean

: poker in which each player is dealt a hand of cards facedown and combines them with cards faceup on the table to make a poker hand

Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist

noun

: a member of a strongly Calvinistic Baptist sect resembling the Primitive Baptists but believing that mankind is divided into the offspring of God who will be saved and the offspring of the Devil who will be lost

will-in-the-wisp

obsolete variant of

wolf-in-the-tail

noun

: nonspecific debility of cattle compare hollow horn

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

proverbial saying

—used to say that it is better to hold onto something one has than to risk losing it by trying to get something better

a break in the weather

noun phrase

: a change from unpleasant to more pleasant weather

a drop in the ocean

noun phrase

: an amount that is so small that it does not make an important difference or have much effect

a kick in the teeth

noun phrase

: something that is very shocking and disappointing

all in the past

phrase

: no longer happening

all the time in the world

noun phrase

: a great deal of time to do something

a roll in the hay

noun phrase

: an act of having sex with someone


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