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chain reaction	A series of events, each one causing the next.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
food chain	The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
yank someone's chain	Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see yank,‎ chain.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
a chain is only as strong as its weakest link	An organization (especially a process or a business) is only as strong or powerful as its weakest person. A group of associates is only as strong as its laziest member.	Rate it: (3.25 / 4 votes)
off the chain	Free from work or direct supervision. In reference to slave labor, where workers are chained, or to the figurative chain of workers of an assembly line.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
food chain	A hierarchy.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
chain reaction	A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chain up	To put in chains	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
off the chain	Crazy and exciting; delirious and wild. By analogy to a frenetic dog when unleashed.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
yank someone's chain	To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
belly-up to the bar	Same as belly up to the bar; a friendly invitation to individual to come up to the bar and/or join the group for libation and conversation	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
belly up	Dead or defunct.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
peanut butter and a punch in the belly	Child's aggressive behavior.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
belly button	Navel	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
belly up to the bar	Same as belly-up to the bar; a friendly invitation to individual to come up to the bar and/or join the group for libation and conversation	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Delhi belly	Digestive illness or diarrhoea, especially if suffered by a visitor to India.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fire in the belly	The emotional stamina and vigor, passion, or inner drive to achieve something, to take action, etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go belly-up	To fail or fold; especially, to close or shut down a business; to go out of business.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go belly-up	To die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
have eyes bigger than one's belly	To take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedy	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
your eyes are bigger than your belly	To take more food on one's plate than one can eat	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
food baby	A protruding belly resulting from the consumption of a large quantity of food; the contents of one's digestive system causing the protrusion.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
smoking like a chimney !	this is used to describe a person who is chain smoker or smoking non stop.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
stay woke	First used by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in a 1938 interview afterword of his song Scottsboro Boys-named for nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Lead Belly knew the Scottsboro boys, and urged Black listeners and Black persons traveling through that area in Alabama to "Stay Woke" (be vigilant, cautious, and alert) in the spoken afterword to the song. Lead Belly's direct relative, Global Activist and Equality Advocate Greshun De Bouse began the #STAYWOKELEADBELLY movement to acknowledge the phrase's origin, and redefine its present-day meaning as a more generalized, all-inclusive phrase admonishing all to be cognizant of past, present, and future world occurrences.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
tiger team	An engineering or other group assembled to tackle especially difficult or critical problems, often outside the normal chain of command.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
una catena è resistente solo quanto il suo anello debole	a chain is only as strong as its weakest link	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
your eyes are bigger than your stomach	To take more food on one's plate than one can eat; Also and more often said "your eyes are bigger than your, belly"	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
set the wheels in motion	to initiate a chain of events necessary to help one achieve a goal (more quickly)	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
bridge	A valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.	Rate it: (3.25 / 4 votes)
yellow-bellied	Pertaining to an animal or reptile that has a yellow belly.	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
barrel	The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
boomshanka	A wish of happiness. Purportedly a literal translation (from an unknown language) is, "May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman"	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
eine Kette ist nur so stark wie ihr schwächstes Glied	a chain is only as strong as its weakest link	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
her gunt is massive	She has a Belly and Fanny which combines to make a GUNT	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
root cause	An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
saran (fiber) (us) a term used to describe manufactured fibers	Saran (fibre) (US) A Term Used To Describe Manufactured Fibers In Which The Fibre-forming Substance Is Any Long-chain Synthetic Polymer Composed Of At Least 80% By Weight Of 1,1-dichloroethene (vinylidene Chloride) Units. The Iso Generic Name Is Chlorofibre	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slippery slope	A logical argument that follows a chain of events or causes and effects to some conclusion.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slippery slope	A chain of events that, once initiated, cannot be halted; especially one in which the final outcome is undesirable or precarious.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
unbuckle your belt(or loosen your belt)	To lessen the strain on one's abdomen: in preparation for a large meal, or with the intention to continue eating even after having a "full" belly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
une chaîne contrôlée	A hall-marked chain.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)