one's claws are showing

one's claws are showing
one's claws are showing
one is acting catty; one is saying spiteful and cruel things. •

Gloria: Did you see what she was wearing? I wouldn't be caught dead in it! Sally: Gloria, my dear, your claws are showing.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Murder One (TV series) — Murder One The major cast of Murder One Format Legal drama Created by Steven Bochco Charles H. Eglee …   Wikipedia

  • a clever hawk hides its claws — Japanese proverb. 1994 S. NISON Beyond Candlesticks i. There is a Japanese saying, ‘A clever hawk hides its claws.’ For over a century, the claws of Japanese technical analysis, that is candlestick charts, were a secret hidden from the western… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • Onychophora — Temporal range: 40–0 Ma …   Wikipedia

  • Velvet worm — Taxobox name = Onychophora fossil range = Cambrian – Recent image width = 250px image caption = Velvet worm regnum = Animalia phylum = Onychophora phylum authority = Grube, 1853 subdivision ranks = Extant families subdivision = Peripatidae… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ben 10 aliens — This is the list of all aliens of the Omnitrix and Ultimatrix showed in the Ben 10 universe Contents 1 Aliens introduced in Ben 10 1.1 Heatblast 1.2 Wildmutt 1.3 Diamondhead …   Wikipedia

  • Cat — For other uses, see Cat (disambiguation) and Cats (disambiguation). Domestic cat[1] …   Wikipedia

  • Dark Days in Monkey City — Genre Nature Documentary Drama[1] Written by Ian McGee[2][3] …   Wikipedia

  • New England — This article is about the region of the United States. For other uses, see New England (disambiguation). New England …   Wikipedia

  • List of Pokémon (320–386) — Pokémon has 646 (as of Pokémon Black and White) distinctive fictional species classified as the titular Pokémon. These creatures and entities reside throughout various locations of the fictional Pokémon universe and can be caught by humans… …   Wikipedia

  • Cheetah — This article is about the animal. For other uses, see Cheetah (disambiguation). Cheetah[1] Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent …   Wikipedia

  • Hoatzin — by Beni River, Bolivia Conservation status …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”