H
Idioms beginning with "H"
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Contents of H:
[hash out] {v.}, {informal}
To talk all about and try to agree on; discuss thoroughly.
The teacher asked Susan and Jane to sit down together and hash out their differences.
The students hashed out the matter and decided to drop it.
[hash up] {v.}, {slang}
1. To make a mess of; do badly.
Bob really hashed up that exam and failed the course.
2. To bring to life; remember and talk about.
The teacher advised Sue not to hash up old bitterness against her schoolmates.
[hat]
See:
[AT THE DROP OF A HAT],
[BRASS HAT],
[HANG ON TO YOUR HAT] or [HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT] or [HOLD YOUR HAT],
[HIGH-HAT],
[KEEP UNDER ONE'S HAT],
[OLD HAT],
[PULL OUT OF A HAT],
[TAKE OFF ONE'S HAT TO],
[TALK THROUGH ONE'S HAT],
[…]
[hat in hand] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
In a humble and respectful manner.
They went hat in hand to the old woman to ask for her secret recipe.
[hatchet face] {n.}
A long narrow face with sharp parts; also, a person with such a face.
Johnny was sent to the principal's office because he called his teacher old hatchet face.
He was hatchet-faced and not at all handsome.
[hatchet job] {n. phr.}, {slang}
1. The act of saying or writing terrible things about someone or something, usually on behalf of one's boss or organization.
* /When Phil makes speeches against the competition exaggerating their weaknesses, he is doing […]
[hatchet man] {n.}, {colloquial}
1. A politician or newspaper columnist whose job is to write and say unfavorable things about the opposition.
Bill Lerner is the hatchet man for the Mayor's Party; he smears all the other candidates regularly.
2. […]