I
Idioms beginning with "I"
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Contents of I:
[in a nutshell] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
In a few words; briefly, without telling all about it.
We are in a hurry, so I'll give you the story in a nutshell.
In a nutshell, the car is no bargain.
Compare: [IN SHORT].
[in any case] also [in any event] or [at all events] {adv. phr.}
1. No matter what happens: surely; without fail; certainly; anyhow; anyway.
It may rain tomorrow, but we are going home in any case.
* /I may not go to Europe, but in any event, I […]
[in a pickle] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
In a quandary; in a difficult situation.
I was certainly in a pickle when my front tire blew out.
[in a pig's eye] {adv.}, {slang}, {informal}
Hardly; unlikely; not so.
Would I marry him? In a pig's eye.
[in a pinch] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
In an emergency.
Dave is a good friend who will always help out in a pinch.
[in arms] {adv. phr.}
Having guns and being ready to fight; armed.
When our country is at war, we have many men in arms.
Syn.: [UP IN ARMS]
[in arrears] {adv. phr.}
Late or behind in payment of money or in finishing something. — Usually used of a legal debt or formal obligation.
Poor Mr. Brown! He is in arrears on his rent.
* /He is in arrears on the story he promised to write for the […]
[in a sense] {adv. phr.}
In some ways but not in all; somewhat.
Mr. Smith said our school is the best in the state, and in a sense that is true.
In a sense, arithmetic is a language.