Definition of one-and-one in English English dictionary
- a foul shot that must be made in order to earn the right to a second foul shot
- damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
- A dilemma where either choice results in a negative outcome
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
- go in one ear and out the other
- Said of something that is heard but not attended to; (someone) failed to pay attention
He told me who he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other.
- have one's cake and eat it too
- To seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use)
Do you seriously want to break up with her and still have sex with her? You can't have your cake and eat it too!.
- mind one's P's and Q's
- Alternative spelling of mind one's p's and q's
- mind one's p's and q's
- To be very careful to behave correctly
When we go to visit, do remember to mind your p's and q's, children — we don't want another incident like last time.
- one and all
- all, everyone
- one and all
- each one
- one and one's
- An expression of exasperation or frustration
Those kids and their damn sling shots,” he seethed. “How could anyone kill a beautiful bird like this?”.
- one and the same
- The same person or thing. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things
It's almost like there's one electron in two places at one and the same time.
- one hundred and one
- One hundred plus one
- one hundred and one
- The figure 101
- one man and a dog
- a small startup company, usually in a computer or technological field
He started work as the proverbial one man and a dog operation....
- one strike and you're out
- If you fail you will be given no second chance
The training was intense and they had a strict one strike and you're out policy when it came to sleeping in.
- take one's ball and go home
- To cease participating in an activity that has turned to one's disadvantage, especially out of spite, or in a way that prevents others from participating as well
I don't play board games with John any more. Whenever he starts losing, he takes his ball and goes home.
- two thousand and one
- The number occurring after two thousand and before two thousand and two
- two thousand and one
- The year 2001
- cross one's heart and hope to die
- say that what one has said is surely true (often used by children)
I promise that I will meet you tomorrow. Cross my heart and hope to die.
- have one's cake and eat it
- (deyim) To wish to have one's cake and eat it too or simply have one's cake and eat it (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech
- have one's cake and eat it too
- (deyim) To wish to have one's cake and eat it too or simply have one's cake and eat it (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech
- have one's cake and have it
- (deyim) To wish to have one's cake and eat it too or simply have one's cake and eat it (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech
- have one's cake and have it too
- (deyim) To wish to have one's cake and eat it too or simply have one's cake and eat it (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech
- make one's bed and lie in it
- (deyim) Create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure
- mind one's p's and q's
- (deyim) Mind one's manners, or, generally, to be careful of one's behaviour. It is sometimes written mind one's P's and Q's (though some feel that apostrophes are unnecessary in the plurals of capital letters), or mind one's p's and q's
- mind one's ps and qs
- (deyim) Mind one's manners, or, generally, to be careful of one's behaviour. It is sometimes written mind one's P's and Q's (though some feel that apostrophes are unnecessary in the plurals of capital letters), or mind one's p's and q's
- one and the same
- (deyim) The same thing or person
I was amazed to discover that Mary's husband and Jane's son are one and the same (person).
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- (deyim) A situation in which there is little difference between two alternatives
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- a cartoon film made by Walt Disney,, about 99 young dalmatians which an evil woman called Cruella de Vil wants to kill so that she can use their skins to make a coat. Two more adult Dalmatians save them. Another film was made of the story in 1996 with human actors.The films are based on the book by Dodie Smith (1961)
- The Thousand and One Nights
- or Arabian Nights' Entertainment Arabic Alf laylah wa laylah Collection of Oriental stories of uncertain date and authorship. The frame story, in which the vengeful King Shahryar's plan to marry and execute a new wife each day is foiled by the resourceful Scheherazade, is probably Indian; the tales with which Scheherazade beguiles Shahryar, postponing and eventually averting her execution, come from India, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and possibly Greece. It is now believed that the collection is a composite work originally transmitted orally and developed over a period of several centuries. The first published version was an 18th-century European translation; Sir Richard Burton's Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885-88) has become the best-known English translation
- Thousand and One Nights
- Arabian Nights" (collection of 8th-16th century Arabic stories)
- Thousand and One Nights
- Arabian Nights
- at one's beck and call
- obedient to the wishes of, subject to someone's requests or commands
- be at one's beck and call
- be ready to serve someone, be available to fulfill someone's requests
- dot and carry one
- {f} work diligently and systematically
- dot one's i's and cross one's t's
- be exact, be precise, be very clear
- each and every one
- every single person, every solitary individual
- from each and every one
- from every single one, from all, excluding none
- go in one ear and out the other
- {f} be heard but disregarded; put out of mind; fail to pay attention
- hundred and one
- being one more than one hundred
- mind one's p's and q's
- mind one's own affairs, pay more attention to one's own business
- one and all
- everyone, each person
- one and only
- eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"
- one and only
- the unique one, the chosen one, the only one of his kind
- one and the same
- very same, this is the one
- one's own flesh and blood
- relative, family member
- quarrel with one's bread and butter
- {f} repine, be unhappy, be not satisfied, be discontented
- thousand and one excuses
- many excuses, various ways of trying to explain his bad behavior
- under one's own vine and fig tree
- person on his own property, person surrounded by his own possessions
- want to have one's cake and eat it
- want to have all benefits, is not willing to take the good with the bad
- went into one ear and out the other
- {s} ignored, was heard but disregarded; was put out of mind; failed to pay attention