Idioms

get the nod
to be chosen for something
My favorite candidate got the nod to run in the election.

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  • get the once-over
  • get the picture
  • get the red-carpet treatment
  • get the runaround
  • get the sack
  • get the shock of one's life
  • get the short end of the stick
  • get the show on the road
  • get the third degree
  • get the upper hand (on someone)
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  • head and shoulders above (someone or something)
  • in a word
  • make sense of (something)
  • hold off (something) or hold (something) off
  • hot and bothered
  • be that as it may
  • tax-and-spend
  • hand-to-mouth
  • the living end
  • get out of (somewhere)


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    The way that prostitutes got the nickname Hooker was because of a general of the Civil War. General Hooker would keep a number of prostitutes to follow his army and keep his men's moral up. The prostitutes were referred to as Hooker's brigade.      .. More >>
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