M
Idioms beginning with "M"
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Contents of M:
[mess around] {v. phr.}
1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity.
Come on, you guys, — start doing some work, don't just mess around all day!
2. {vulgar}
To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. […]
[mess up] {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal}
1. To cause trouble; to spoil something.
What did you have to mess up my accounts for?
2. To cause someone emotional trauma.
Sue will never get married; she got messed up when she was a teenager.
3. […]
[method in (to) one's madness] {n. phr.}
A plan or organization of ideas hard to perceive at first, but that becomes noticeable after longer and closer examination.
* /We thought he was crazy to threaten to resign from the university but, when he was […]
[mickey mouse] (1) {adj.}, {slang}
Inferior; second rate; chicken; easy; gimmicky.
Watch out for Perkins; he's full of mickey mouse ideas.
[mickey mouse] (2) {n.} ( {derogatory})
A stupid person; a policeman; a white man (as used by blacks).
[middle ground] {n.}
A place halfway between the two sides of an argument; a compromise.
John wanted to go running. Bill said it was too hot. Tom took the middle ground and suggested a hike.
* /The committee found a middle ground between the two […]
[middleman] {n.}
A person or small business standing in an intermediary position between two parties.
A retail merchant is the middleman between the factory and the consumer.