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eeny meeny miney moe	(short version) a way of choosing someone or something by counting off items one by one until the last word falls on a person or item to the full rhyme which is: eeny meany miney moe catch a tiger by the toe if he hollers let him go eeny meeny miney moe Whichever item falls on the last word "moe" that's the one that is chosen, for example to be "it" to start a game or to choose sides for teams. There are only four words per line that count. The last line "eeny meeny money moe" was later replaced by My mother said to pick the very best one and you are not it" (all words count for one as each person (item) is tapped.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
eye of a tiger	An eye for being adventurous, brave, and a leader.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go snake	To approach, attack or accost a person, situation or environment in an extremely violent and unrestrained manner, often with no thought about consequences.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
grass snake	reptile	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
have a tiger by the tail	To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
have the tiger by the tail	To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hissy fit	Bout of anger (like a visciously hissing snake)	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
il y a quelque anguille sous roche	There is a snake in the grass; I can smell a rat.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
lady or tiger	A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
mad as a cut snake	Very irate, crazy with rage.	Rate it: (2.25 / 4 votes)
mad as a cut snake	Crazy; eccentric.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper tiger	A seemingly fierce or powerful person, country or organisation without the ability to back up their words; apparently powerful but actually ineffective.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
poudre de perlimpinpin	snake oil	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
serpentine	Having the shape or form of a snake.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
snake eyes	Two ones, after rolling two dice.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
Snake in the Grass	An untrustworthy, traitor or betrayer, someone not to be relies on	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
snake in the grass	A treacherous person.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
snake oil	Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
snake oil	A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
snake oil	Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
snake oil	A type of 19th century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take a tiger by the tail	Latch-on, accost, challenge, confront someone or something which is dangerous, threatening, vicious, harmful, explosive, oppressive, vindictive.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
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)
tiger team	A specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization's ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization's internal and external security.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)