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arm Theme: POLICE n. a police officer. (Underworld.)What'll you do if the arms come in while you're sawing the bars of your cell?So this arm says to me, “Going to a fire?”
arm noun 1 a police officer US, 1956. 2 the penis US, 1972.► off the armin food and beverage servers' argot, served without a tray US, 1950.► on the armwithout charge US, 1926.► put the arm onto pressurise with criminal intent, to extort, to blackmail, to threaten; to arrest US, 1943.► under the armno good, inferior; loathsome UK, 1958.► up the armin betting, odds of 11–8. From the TICK-TACK signal used by bookmakers UK, 1991
idiomarmchance your arm/luck BrEBrEspoken to try to do something that is new or involves a risk, even though you doubt you will succeed:You won't get anything done in life if you don't chance your arm sometimes.I didn't know how to spell it, but I chanced my luck and wrote something down.cost an arm and a legspoken used in order to say that something is very expensive:That carpet must have cost an arm and a leg.Once you're there everything is cheap, it's only the flight that costs an arm and a leg.pay/spend an arm and a leg: Two years ago we paid an arm and a leg for this printer, and now it's obsolete!sb would give his/here right arm to do sth(also sb would give his/her right arm for sth)used in order to say that you want something very much, especially something that is difficult or impossible to get:I'd give my right arm to be able to sing like that.She'd have given her right arm for a job like yours, but she didn't have the qualifications.the long arm of the law(also the long arm of the state, government etc)used in order to say that the police and the laws are so powerful that people who do something wrong in any activity or part of society can be caught and punished:Now the long arm of the law is catching up with criminals who operate across the border.I believe that the long arm of the federal government is intruding too far into the lives of the American people.twist sb's armto persuade someone to do something that they have said they do not want to do:I'll call her and twist her arm a little - I think she'll give us the money.Hammer said she had to twist Taylor's arm to get him to support the stadium.have your arm twisted: Many party loyalists were upset at having had their arms so firmly twisted on the health-care bill.arm-twisting: The bill was saved from a major defeat in the Assembly's Ways and Means Committee only after intense last-minute arm-twisting.
arm (someone against someone or something) (with something)to equip someone with whatever is needed to fight against someone or something. They armed themselves against the enemy with guns and ammunition. The government armed the soldiers with the new guns. arm n. a police officer. (see also long arm of the law.) What’ll you do if the arms come in while you’re sawing the bars of your cell? |