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TAKE THE QUIZ“someone's”
The following 409 entries include the term someone's.
pull/yank someone's chain
idiom: to deceive someone in a friendly or playful way : play a joke on someone
punch someone's lights out
idiom: to hit someone's face hard with a fist
put ideas in/into someone's head
idiom: to cause someone to have ideas or suspicions that he or she would not have had otherwise
put someone's back up
idiom: to offend or annoy someone : to make someone angry or ready to argue
put someone's name down
idiom: to write down a person's name on a list of people (to be included in something) : to include someone among the people who will participate in something
putty in someone's hands
idiom—used of someone that another person is able to control very easily
put words in/into someone's mouth
idiom: to suggest that someone said or meant something that he or she did not actually say or mean
queer (someone's) pitch
idiom: to spoil or ruin something planned, arranged, or attempted
rain on someone's parade
idiom: to spoil someone's pleasure
rap someone's knuckles
idiom: to criticize or punish someone in a gentle way for doing something wrong
rattle someone's cage
idiom: to make someone feel worried or upset
read someone's mind
idiom: to know exactly what someone is thinking
read someone's palm
idiom: to tell what is going to happen to a person in the future by looking at the lines on the palm of his or her hand
read someone's thoughts
idiom: to know or guess what someone is thinking
redound to someone's credit/honor
idiom—used to say that a person deserves credit/honor for having done something
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