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Idioms beginning with "O"
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[overhead] {n.}
Expenses incurred in the upkeep of one's plant and premises, employees' salaries, etc., which are not due to the cost of individual items or products.
* /"Our overhead is killing us!" the used car lot owner complained. "We have to move […]
[overnight] {adj.}
1. From one evening until the next morning.
We could drive from Chicago to Detroit in one day, but it would be more comfortable if we stayed overnight in a motel.
2. Rapidly.
* /When Tom won the lottery he became a rich man […]
[over one's dead body] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
Not having the ability to stop something undesirable from taking place.
"You will get married at age sixteen over my dead body!" Jane's father cried.
[over one's head] {adv.} or {adj. phr.}
1. Not understandable; beyond your ability to understand; too hard or strange for you to understand.
Mary laughed just to be polite, but the joke was really over her head.
* /The lesson today was hard; it […]
[over the hill] {adj.}, {informal}
Past one's prime; unable to function as one used to; senile.
Poor Mr. Jones is sure not like he used to be; well, he's over the hill.
[over the hump] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
Past the most difficult part; past the crisis; out of danger.
Mary was failing math, but she is over the hump now.
John was very sick after his accident, hut he's over the hump.
* /When Mr. Smith was […]