H
Idioms beginning with "H"
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Contents of H:
[hairdo] {n.}
Style or manner of arranging, combing, or wearing one's hair.
"How do you like my new hairdo?" Jane asked, as she left the beauty parlor.
[hair stand on end] {informal}
The hair of your head rises stiffly upwards as a sign or result of great fright or horror.
When he heard the strange cry, his hair stood on end.
The sight of the dead man made his hair stand on end.
Compare: […]
[hale and hearty] {adj. phr.}
In very good health; well and strong.
Grandfather will be 80 years old tomorrow, but he is hale and hearty.
That little boy looks hale and hearty, as if he is never sick.
[half]
See:
[GO HALVES],
[GO OFF HALF-COCKED] also [GO OFF AT HALF COCK],
[IN HALF],
[SIX OF ONE AND HALF-A-DOZEN OF THE OTHER],
[TIME AND A HALF],
[TOO-BY HALF].
[half a chance] or [a half chance] {n.}
An opportunity; a reasonable chance.
Just give yourself half a chance and you will quickly get used to your new job.
[half a loaf is better than none] or [half a loaf is better than no bread]
Part of what we want or need is better than nothing. — A proverb.
* /Albert wanted two dollars for shoveling snow from the sidewalk but the lady would only give him a dollar. […]
[half a mind] also [half a notion] {n. phr.}, {informal}
A wish or plan that you have not yet decided to act on; a thought of possibly doing something. — Used after "have" or "with" and before "to" and an infinitive.
* /I have half a mind to stop […]
[half-and-half] (1) {adj.}
As much one thing as the other.
We asked the coach if more boys than girls were interested in debating, and he said it was about half-and-half.
* /The show last night was neither very good nor very poor — just […]
[half-and-half] (2) {n.}
A mixture of milk and cream in equal parts, used with cereal or coffee.
John uses half-and-half with his cereal, but his wife, who is dieting, uses milk.
[half an eye] {n. phr.}
A slight glance; a quick look.
The substitute teacher could see with half an eye that she was going to have trouble with the class.
* /While Mary was cooking she kept half an eye on the baby to see that he didn't get into […]