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keep at arm's length	Stay at a distance, away from one's body.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
keep at arm's length	Avoid a close relationship.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
shot in the arm	A shot of drug in the arm, to get on a high.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
arm to the teeth	To equip thoroughly with weapons.	Rate it: (4.40 / 5 votes)
arm and a leg	A relatively high price for an item or service; an exorbitant price.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
arm's length	Barely within reach.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
Cost an Arm and a Leg	Something very expensive and not worth the cost in few cases	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
long as my arm	Very long.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
shot in the arm	A stimulus.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
arm candy	An attractive, seemingly romantic companion who accompanies a person in public simply so that one or both of the individuals can gain attention, enhance social status, or create an impression of sexual appeal.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
arm up	to supply, or be supplied with, arms (weapons)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
arm's length	Distant, detached.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
arm's length	Independent, but related.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
at arm's length	Avoiding a close relationship.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
at arm's length	At a distance, away from one's body.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
long arm	A pole tool used for handling things too far away to reach.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
long arm	Influence, far-reaching power.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
long arm of the law	The influence or effectiveness of law enforcement institutions; law enforcement officers collectively.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Shot in the Arm	Something that gives you confidence and encouragement, something that boost your spirits	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the long arm of the law	The body of law enforcement officers.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
twist someone's arm	To coerce, force, or cajole.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fruit machine	one arm bandit	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
walk like an Egyptian	To walk with one arm horizontally at the side, with arm bent at the elbow facing up, and the other arm horizontally at the side with arm bent at the elbow facing down.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
necker's knob	A knob attached to the steering wheel of an automobile, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm and leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get	(vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, ISBN 9780135375228:Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, ISBN 9781582430454, p. 93:Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, ISBN 9781599213590, p. 63:"I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."	Rate it: (2.26 / 16 votes)
à force de bras	By strength of arm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bow and scrape	To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bras dessus bras dessous	Arm in arm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
coûter bonbon	to be expensive, to cost an arm and a leg	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
coûter la peau du cul	to be expensive, cost an arm and a leg	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
coûter la peau du dos	to cost an arm and a leg: to cost too much, to be very expensive	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
coûter les yeux de la tête	to cost arm and a leg, to cost the earth: to cost too much, to be very expensive	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
des mots longs d'une toise	Words as long as your arm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
haul off	To draw back the arm in order to punch.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
kill	A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mic drop	the act of someone extending their arm out and intentionally dropping a microphone to emphasize the greatness of what they just put through the microphone; sometimes the words, "mic drop" are also said as someone drops their microphone; said or done as a testament of how good the thing was that came through the microphone right before someone drops the microphone	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
raise a hand	To raise one's arm and hand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
strike out	To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tool up	To arm oneself with a weapon, especially a gun.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wave down	To cause to stop by using an arm gesture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
why i ougthtta...!	a threat often accompanied by a n arm gesture of backhanding someone in the face; it means I ought to slap you in the face (or do something worse); exactly WHAT the speaker ought to do is implied almost as if it is a fill-in-the-blank statement where the blank is filled in with something very bad. It isn't a question. (The "why" part of the phrase isn't asking why, it's telling the listener that something bad should happen to him because of what he just said or did wrong.)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)