C

Idioms beginning with "C"

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[Christmas]

See: [FATHER CHRISTMAS].

[Christmas card] {n.}, {slang}, {citizen's band radio jargon}

A speeding ticket.

Smokey just gave a Christmas card to the eighteen wheeler we passed.

[Christmas club] {n.}

A plan for putting money in the bank to be saved for Christmas shopping.

John deposits $10 each week in the Christmas club.

The woman will get her Christmas club money on December 10.

[chum around with] {v. phr.}

1. To be close friends with someone.

They have been chumming around with one another for quite some time.

2. To travel around with someone.

Jack is planning to chum around with Tim in Europe this summer.

[cigar-store Indian] {n. phr.}

A wooden statue of an Indian which in the past was placed in front of a cigar store.

A cigar store Indian used to mean a cigar store in the same way a barber pole still means a barber shop.

[circle]

See:

[COME FULL CIRCLE],

[IN A CIRCLE] or [IN CIRCLES],

[RUN CIRCLES AROUND] also [RUN RINGS AROUND].

[circulation]

See: [IN CIRCULATION], [OUT OF CIRCULATION].

[circumstance]

See: [UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES] also [IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES].

[circumstances alter cases] {formal}

The way things are, or happen, may change the way you are expected to act.

* /John's father told him never to touch his gun, but one day when Father was away, John used it to shoot a poisonous snake that came into […]

[circus]

See: [THREE-RING CIRCUS].