have several seats
to be completely wrong or out of line
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have somebody in mind
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
have somebody in mind for something
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
have someone by the balls
have complete control over someone
have someone by the short and curlies
have complete control over someone
have someone by the short hairs
have complete control over someone
have someone on toast
To have a great advantage over someone
have someone's back
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have someone's blood on one's head
be responsible for someone's death or harm
have someone's guts for garters
to be extremely angry with someone
have someone's head
to completely understand or know someone's thoughts
have someone's hide
to punish or scold someone severely
have someone's number
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have something in common
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
have something in common with somebody
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
have something in common with something
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
have something over with
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have something to show for something
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have the ball in one's court
To have the responsibility or opportunity to act or make a decision
have the biscuit
To have the best or most desirable thing
have the blues
feel sad or depressed
have the floor
have the right to speak in a meeting or gathering
have the last laugh
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have the law of
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have the right time
to enjoy oneself and have a good time
have the tiger by the tail
to control a difficult or dangerous situation
have the wind up
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have the wolf by the ear
To have a problem or situation under control but with difficulty
have the world by the tail
To have everything under control and be very successful
have time
be available to do something
have time for something
enjoy or appreciate something
have time on one's hands
To have extra time available with no urgent tasks
have time on one's side
Have an advantage due to a lack of time pressure
have time to do something
be able to do something because one has enough time
have to do with somebody
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
have truck with
to have dealings or association with someone
have up
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
have Van Gogh's ear for music
to have no musical talent
have words
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
havy cavy
Wavering, doubtful, shilly shally.
hawbuck
A vulgar, ignorant, country fellow, but one remove from the clodpole.
hawk
Ware hawk; the word to look sharp, a bye-word when a bailiff passes. Hawk also signifies a sharper, in opposition to pigeon. See PIGEON. See WARE HAWK.
hawkers
Licensed itinerant retailers of different commodities, called also pedlars; likewise the sellers of news-papers. Hawking; an effort to spit up the thick phlegm, called OYSTERS: whence it is wit upon record, to ask the person so doing whether he has a licence; a punning allusion to the Act of hawkers and pedlars.
Hawks will not pick out Hawk's eyes
People with similar interests or characteristics do not harm each other
hawse holes
The apertures in a ship’s bows through which the cables pass; "he has crept in through the HAWSE-HOLES," said of an officer who has risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman, whose original position in the vessel was forward—before the mast.—Navy.
hay bag
A woman.
haymarket hectors
Bullies who, in the interest of prostitutes, affect the neighbourhood of Leicester Square and the Haymarket.
haymarket theatre
So great was its popularity that a club called "The Hurlo-Thrumbo Society" was formed.
hazard a guess
make an educated guess
hazard creep
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
haze
To confuse and annoy a subordinate by contradictory, unnecessary, and perplexing orders.
hazed
Drunk.
hazlitt’s
(William) Table Talk, 12mo, (vol. ii. contains a chapter on Familiar Style, with a notice on Slang terms.)
hazy
Intoxicated, also dull and stupid.
ha’porth o’ coppers
Habeas Corpus.—Legal slang.
ha’porth o’ liveliness
The music at a low concert, or theatre. Also a dilatory person.
he bit his glove
He resolved on mortal revenge. On the Border, to bite the glove was considered a pledge of deadly vengeance. Stern Rutherford right little said, But bit his glove and shook his head.
he brushed by me
He just touched me as he went quickly past. Hence also brush, a slight skirmish.
He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. (Strauss, 1994 p. 898)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
he eats no fish
An Elizabethan way of say- ing that he is an honest man and one to be trusted, because he is not a papist. Roman Catholics were naturally opposed to the Government, and Protestants, to show their loyalty, refused to adopt their ritual custom of eating only fish on Fridays.
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