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onions noun► get up your onionsto irritate, to anger. A variation of GET UP YOUR NOSE UK, 1988. ► pain in the onionsan irritation; an annoying person UK, 1988
idiomonionsknow your onions BrEBrEold-fashioned used in order to say that someone knows a lot about their job or main activity:Morley knows his onions, and if he says the car's a good buy, they buy it.NoteThis idiom comes from Cockney rhyming slang. Know your onions is from 'know your onion rings' (=slices of onion fried in oil), which sounds the same as 'know your things'.
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