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Default Idioms with the word "Nine"

Idioms with the word "Nine"


1. A stitch in time saves nine: A proverb that refers to the importance of precaution.

2. Nine lives: A reference to having good luck (from the notion that cats have nine lives).

3. Whole nine yards: As far as possible, or the entire amount

4. Dressed to the nines: Very well dressed.

5. Nine times out of ten: almost always.

6. Nine-day wonder: A briefly famous or attention-getting person or thing.

7. Possession is nine-tenths of the law: A reference to the notion that someone who possesses something has a stronger legal claim to it than someone who merely asserts ownership

8. Nine-to-five attitude: an approach to work in which an employee does the minimum required to remain employed.

9. On cloud nine: Very happy

10. Nine-to-five job: full-time employment during daytime hours, or, broadly, conventional office employment.

11. Bottom of the ninth: The last minute, from the last segment of the last inning of a baseball game.
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