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When a situation has reached fever pitch, people are extremely excited or agitated howing 51-100 of 162 results for letter 'F' If things are few and far between, they happen very occasionally. If people are fiddling while Rome burns, they are wasting their time on futile things while problems threaten to destroy them. (UK) A fifth columnist is a member of a subversive organisation who tries to help an enemy invade. (USA) A fifth wheel is something unnecessary or useless. When you fight an uphill battle, you have to struggle against very unfavourable circumstances. If someone will fight tooth and nail for something, they will not stop at anything to get what they want. ('Fight tooth and claw' is an alternative.) If you have a fighting chance, you have a reasonable possibility of success. When you are finding your feet, you are in the process of gaining confidence and experience in something. Finders keepers, losers weepers Whoever finds something can keep it. This is often shortened to 'finders keepers'. (UK) If thing's are fine and dandy, then everything is going well. Small adjustments to improve something or to get it working are called fine tuning. This idiom means that it's easy to talk, but talk is not action. If you have a finger in the pie, you have an interest in something. If you are all fingers and thumbs, you are being clumsy and not very skilled with your hands. If you want to ask someone a question and they tell you to fire away, they mean that you are free to ask what you want. This is used as a warning when a planned explosion is about to happen. If something is firing on all cylinders, it is going as well as it could. This means there will be no preferential treatment and a service will be provided to those that arrive first. When someone is first out of the gate, they are the first to do something that others are trying to do. The first place you stop to do something is your first port of call. Usually said of someone who puts themselves down (similar to false modesty) in the hope that others will contradict them, and in the process, compliment them. Sam: I'm no good at drawing!Judy: Nonsense! You're an excellent artist!Bob: Aw, he was just fishing for compliments. Someone who fishes in troubled waters tries to takes advantage of a shaky or unstable situation. The extremists were fishing in troubled waters during the political uncertainty in the country. (USA) This idiom is used when you want to tell someone that it is time to take action. If you are placed in a situation that is completely new to you and confuses you, you are like a fish out of water. If there is something fishy about someone or something, there is something suspicious; a feeling that there is something wrong, though it isn't clear what it is. Someone who's very healthy, fit or physically attractive is as fit as a butcher's dog. If you are fit as a fiddle, you are in perfect health. If something is fit for a king, it is of the very highest quality or standard. If something fits like a glove, it is suitable or the right size. If someone reacts badly because their pride is hurt, this is a fit of pique. If something fits the bill, it is what is required for the task. If someone is fit to be tied, they are extremely angry. A five o'clock shadow is the facial hair that a man gets if he doesn't shave for a day or two. If something is a flash in the pan, it is very noticeable but doesn't last long, like most singers, who are very successful for a while, then forgotten. It is so flat that it is like a pancake- there is no head on that beer it is as flat as a pancake. If you work flat out, you work as hard and fast as you possibly can. Flat out like a lizard drinking (AU) An Australian idiom meaning extremely busy, which is a word play which humorously mixes two meanings of the term flat out. If someone is fleet of foot, they are very quick. Your flesh and blood are your blood relatives, especially your immediate family. (UK) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they're flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no-one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work. Flowery speech is full of lovely words, but may well lack substance. (UK) Something that flutters the dovecots causes alarm or excitement. Fly by the seat of one's pants If you fly by the seat of one's pants, you do something difficult even though you don't have the experience or training required. A fly in the ointment is something that spoils or prevents complete enjoyment of something. If someone flies off the handle, they get very angry. If you are able to see and hear events as they happen, you are a fly on the wall. When children leave home to live away from their parents, they fly the coop. If someone flies the flag, they represent or support their country. ('Wave the flag' and 'show the flag' are alternative forms of this idiom) If you foam at the mouth, you are very, very angry. When giving directions, telling someone to follow their nose means that they should go straight ahead.
If something is food for thought, it is worth thinking about or considering seriously. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me This means that you should learn from your mistakes and not allow people to take advantage of you repeatedly.
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