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John Henry	One's signature.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
razor-sharp	Very clever or quick-witted.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick	Better than nothing; not unsatisfactory but also not a reason for enthusiastic excitement.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
sharp-elbowed	Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
back in the knife drawer, Miss Sharp	Said as a retort to somebody who has made a cutting remark.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
razor-sharp	As sharp as a razor; extremely sharp.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
razor-sharp	As sharp as a razor, extremely or ultimately sharp.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sharp as a knife	not a dumbass, the opposite, smart.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sharp as a tack	Very intelligent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sharp cookie	One who is intelligent, bright, or sharp; especially, one who can identify attempts to deceive or mislead.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sharp tongue	The practice or characteristic of speaking to others in a harsh, critical, or insulting manner.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sharp-elbowed	Possessing narrow, bony, rather pointed elbows.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on pins and needles	Feeling sharp anticipation or anxiety; in a state of suspense.	Rate it: (3.67 / 3 votes)
Hot Shot	Sharp Person, Really With-It, "In the Swing of It, Svelte, Mayhaps Be Swell? Sophisticated. Sharp Kat et al	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
throw dirt enough, and some will stick	If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick	Alternative form of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick	Alternative form of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
cut like a knife	To be very sharp (of a character, or remark)	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
hunger is a good sauce	(dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
better than a poke in the eye	Alternative form of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail	Alternative form of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cutting edge	The sharp edge of the blade of a knife.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
eat someone out of house and home	C. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II Scene I.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
en dos d'âne	Sloping on both sides, sharp-ridged.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fin comme l'ambre	As sharp as a needle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fingernails on a chalkboard	a phrase used to liken the sharp or shrill sound that is made when fingernails are scratched across a chalkboard to something that sounds sharp or shrill like that	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get your sh-t together!	Collect Your Thoughts, Get The Tools, Get Prepared, Gird Your Loins, Be Fully Focused, Be Wide Awake, Be Guarded Expect About Anything, Be Sharp.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in focus	Sharp and clear with no fuzziness.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
like a hawk	With particular vigilance or attention, implying sharp vision.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mocking is catching	An admonishment to be careful of criticising others, lest the same happen to you.Mocking is Catching was the title of a 1726 song by Henry Carey.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
off one's game	C. 1910, Ralph Henry Barbour, "The Dub" in The New Boy at Hilltop and Other Stories.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
plus vite que ça (fam.)	Look sharp about it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take off!	An order, a sharp command, a desultory admonition, Take Your Leave, now!, Get Lost!, Leave Town!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
veillez au grain	Keep a sharp look-out.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wolf in sheep's clothing	Grammar school stories told of the Wily wolf wearing a sheepskin costume as he stealthily circles the grazing sheep seeking to snatch a helpless little lamb in his sharp-toothed and drooling vicious jaws!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)