pick

left

See: OUT IN LEFT FIELD, RIGHT AND LEFT.

No categories:

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

Subscribe to: American Idioms

English Slang

✉

We are in Telegram

Our RSS-feeds

Show All

See as well

left field

[left field] {n.} 1. The part of a baseball out-field to the batter's left. * /Right-handed batters usually hit to left field./ Compare: [CENTER FIELD], [RIGHT FIELD]. 2. See: [OUT […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

out in left field

[out in left field] {adj. phr.}, {informal} 1. Far from the right answer; wrong; astray. * /Johnny tried to answer the teacher's question but he was way out in left […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

right and left

[right and left] {adv. phr.} In or from every direction; all around; on all sides. * /The knight rode into battle striking at the enemy right and left with his […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

left-handed

[left-handed] {adj.}, {informal} 1. Using the left hand habitually. 2. Crooked; phoney; homosexual. * /Morris is such a left-handed guy./ 3. Clumsy; untoward; awkward. * /Grab that hammer and stop […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Recent updates

VFM

[VFM] "value for money"

fifty-fifty

[fifty-fifty] (2) {adj.}, {informal} 1. Divided or shared equally. * /It will be a fifty-fifty arrangement; half the money […]

up the creek

[up the creek] or [up the creek without a paddle] {adj. phr.}, {informal} In trouble or difficulty and unable to do anything […]

Aristotle

(384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher My friends! There are no friends.

Brain Fart

[Brain Fart] A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. * /"I know […]