F
Idioms beginning with "F"
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[foundation garment] {n.}
A close-fitting garment designed for women to wear underneath their clothes to make them look slim; a piece of woman's underwear.
Jane wears a foundation garment under her evening dress.
[four bits] {n.}, {slang}
Fifty cents.
Tickets to the play are four bits," said Bill.
Compare: [TWO BITS].
[four corners] {n.}
All parts of a place.
People came from the four corners of the world to see him.
He has been to the four corners of the country.
Compare: [ALL OVER].
[four-eyes] {n.}, {slang}
A person who wears glasses. — A rude expression.
Hey, four-eyes, come over here.
[four-leaf clover] {n.}
A small green plant with four leaves which many people think means good luck because clover plants usually have three leaves.
John has a four-leaf clover in his pocket. He thinks he will have good luck now.
[fourth class] {n.}
A class of mail that is not sealed and weighs a pound or more, that includes things that are bought and sold and sent in the mail, and printed things that are not second or third class mail.
* /Bill sent away 98 cereal box tops and […]
[fourth-class(1)] {adj.}
Belonging to the fourth class of mail.
The package weighed a pound and a half, so it had to be sent by fourth-class mail.
[fourth-class(2)] {adv.}
By fourth-class mail.
How did the company mail the package? Fourth-class.
[fourth world] {n.}, {informal}
The poor nations of the world, as distinguished from the oil-rich nations of the third world.
Sri Lanka will never join OPEC, since it is a fourth world nation.