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[fools rush in where angels fear to tread] {proverb}
The idiom is used where people who are inexperienced or lack knowledge do something that more informed people would avoid.
[go around the barn at high noon] {v. phr.}
To use indirect ways of doing sth. when it is quite not necessary.
To shift, contrive to avoid sth.
See:
[all around Robin Hood's barn]
[goof up] {v. phr.}
To make a mistake (usually not serious).
See also: [blunder], [screw up] — bad mistake.
[have a blast] {v. phr.}
To enjoy doing something very much.
Sky watchers are having a blast keeping track of the comet.
They had a blast poking around the farmers' market looking at all the food.
[have a thing for] or [have a thing about] {v. phr.}
To have a strong inexplicable feeling about sth. or somebody.
* /I have a thing about sweets, for example. If there are no sweets in front of me, I'm not suffering. But if you bring me some, and put […]
[have it in for somebody] {v. phr.} {slang}
To bear a strong grudge against you.
You just cannot drive a Rolls-Royce in Beverly Hills anymore because they have it in for you. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
The fantastically talented Hugh Laurie paid a house call to Ellen, and they played an exciting game of American slang versus English slang — and the game was [bloody] brilliant!
Anyway, you will now know what [flossing], [chin wag], [ba-donka-donk], […]
[lazybones] {n.} {informal}
A lazy person.
Seeing him return so early from the fields, his wife, who was a stirring, busy woman, called out, 'What! lazybones! — Tales of the Punjab
[leave to one's own devices] {v. phr.}
Let someone do what they want without helping them or trying to control them (usually passive).
There are four hours of lessons each morning, and in the afternoon students are left to their own devices.
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