N
Idioms beginning with "N"
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[nine-to-five job] {n. phr.}
A typical office job that starts at 9 A.M. and ends at 5 P.M. with a one-hour lunch break at 12 noon or 1 P.M.
We professors are not too well paid but I could never get used to a nine-to-five job.
[nip and tuck] {adj. or adv.}, {informal}
Evenly matched; hard fought to the finish.
The game was nip and tuck until the last minute.
A was a nip and tuck race right to the finish line.
* /The two salesmen fought nip and tuck for the contract […]
[nip in the bud] {v. phr.}
To check at the outset; prevent at the start; block or destroy in the beginning.
The police nipped the plot in the bud.
The teacher nipped the disorder in the bud.
[no account] (1) {adj.}
Of no importance.
The lowly clerk's opinion is of no account in this matter.
[no account] (2) {n. phr.}
A person of low social station.
Fred was first considered a no account but he soon proved himself to be a person of great ability.
[nobody home] {slang}
1. Your attention is somewhere else, not on what is being said or done here; you are absent-minded.
The teacher asked him a question three times but he still looked out the window. She gave up, saying, "Nobody home."
2. You […]
[nobody's fool] {n. phr.}
A smart person; a person who knows what he is doing; a person who can take care of himself.
In the classroom and on the football field, Henry was nobody's fool.
Contrast: [BORN YESTERDAY].