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• Take the fifth.
If you do not want to answer a question you can take the fifth, meaning you are choosing not to answer.
(‘Plead the fifth’ is also used.)
• Talk a blue streak.
If someone talk a blue streak, they speak quickly and length. (‘Talk up a blue streak’ is also used.)
• Tall enough to hunt geese with a rake.
A person who’s much taller than a person of average height.
• Tell them where the dodgdied.
If you tell them where the dog died, you strongly and sharply correct someone.
• That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee.
This is used to describe something that is deemed worthless. «he’s got a Ph.D. in Philosophy.» «So? That
and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee.»
• That dog won’t hunt.
Very common Southern US expression meaning: What you say makes no sense.
• That’s all she wrote.
This idiom is used to show that something has ended and there is nothing more to say about something.
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