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A list of phrases related to the word "someone"...
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Beat someone black and blue
Big fish in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Bite someone's head off
Bleed someone dry
Bleed someone white
Blow someone away
Bonus genius ( a good spirit accompanying and supporting someone )
Bore the pants off someone
Bump into someone
Bust someone's ass
Buttonhole someone
By royal
appointment
Chew someone's ass
Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
Cut someone dead
Cut someone down in their prime
Cut someone down to size
Dance on someone's grave
Dance to someone's tune
Dead white European male ( derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation )
Draw someone's fire
Drive someone into a corner
Drop someone off
Dump on someone
Eat out of someone's hand
Eat someone alive
Ethnic stocking ( the
appointment
to political office on the basis of ethnicity )
Exert one's
authority
Eye someone up and down
Feel someone up
Feel someone's collar
Flip someone the bird
Freeze someone out
Get into someone's pants
Get no change out of someone
Give someone a bell
Give someone a bloody nose
Give someone a boost
Give someone a good talking to
Give someone a rocket
Give someone a thick ear
Give someone a wide berth
Give someone an earful
Give someone hell
Give someone skin
Give someone the boot
Give someone the brush-off
Give someone the mushroom treatment
Give someone the slip
Give someone the willys
Give someone what for
Grass someone up
Have someone on toast
Have someone's ear
Heap coals of fire on someone's head
Hear someone out
High roller ( someone who gambles for high stakes )
Hit the bricks ( a cursory slang term telling someone to leave )
I have it on good
authority
If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list ( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
In someone's bad books
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Invite someone over
Jog someone's elbow
Jump someone's bones
Keep someone sweet
Know someone in the biblical sense
Lay a trip on someone
Lead someone to the altar
Leading
authority
Leave someone cold
Lick someone's boots
Look someone up and down
Make someone happy with a phone call ( British Telecom advertising slogan )
Make someone's toes curl
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
On nodding
acquaintance
Out for someone's blood
Pop someone's cherry
Pull someone up short
Pull the wool over someone's eyes
Push someone's buttons
Put someone down
Put the bite on someone
Put the fear of God into someone
Put the fear of death into someone
Put words into someone's mouth
Reach out and touch someone ( American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan )
Renew your
acquaintance
Rob someone blind
Rub someone's nose in it
See the back of someone
Sell someone a dummy
Shoot someone a line
Should old
acquaintance
be forgot
Shove it down someone's throat
Sing someone's praises
Sit on someone's tail
Snap someone's head off
Someone Like You ( Adele song )
Someone ears are burning
Someone walked on my grave
Steal someone's heart
Steal someone's thunder
String someone along
Suck someone dry
Take cuts at someone ( A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation )
Take someone out
Take someone to law
Take someone to one side
Take someone to task
Take someone to the woodshed
Take someone's word for it
Take the bread out of someone's mouth
Teach someone a lesson
Teach someone a thing or two
Tell someone where to get off
The empty chair ( the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased )
Throw the book at someone
Tip someone off
Tip someone the wink
Toy with someone's affections
Treat someone like dirt
Trifle with someone's affections
Walk all over someone
Walk someone off their feet
War baby ( someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier )
War criminal ( someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention )
War hero ( someone who acted heroically during a war )
We answer to a higher
authority
( Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan )
Wind someone up ( deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation )
World
authority