<span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span>, <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> (chiefly US) Given that one is partly involved <span class="searchmatch">in</span> or committed to <span class="searchmatch">a</span> project, action, position, etc., there is no reason...
give them <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and they'll take <span class="searchmatch">an</span> ell give someone <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and someone will take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> give someone <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and he'll take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> yard Modified variant...
give someone <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and someone will take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> (idiomatic) Alternative form of give them <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and they'll take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span>....
clach-mhìle mìle-mara òirleach (“<span class="searchmatch">inch</span>”) slat troigh (“foot”) <span class="searchmatch">mìle</span> thousand The following noun is <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the singular: <span class="searchmatch">mìle</span> saighdear ― <span class="searchmatch">a</span> thousand soldiers mìleamh...
<span class="searchmatch">inch</span> by <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> <span class="searchmatch">incher</span> inchful inchlong inchmeal <span class="searchmatch">inch</span>-perfect <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> stuff <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> tracker inchwide <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span>, <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> Little Big <span class="searchmatch">Inch</span> metric <span class="searchmatch">inch</span>...
take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> go the extra <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> half-<span class="searchmatch">mile</span> Imperial <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span>, <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> international <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> Irish <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> Italian <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> land <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> last <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> last...
<span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> wide and <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> deep (not comparable) Covering <span class="searchmatch">a</span> large set of topics but on <span class="searchmatch">a</span> very shallow level....
Premier League title race threatening to go to the very last day as Arsenal and Liverpool refuse to give <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span>. give them <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and they'll take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span>...
metric <span class="searchmatch">mile</span> metric yard American <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> British <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> decimal <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> English <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> fractional <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> French <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> Imperial <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> international <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> Paris <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> standard...
give them <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and they'll take <span class="searchmatch">an</span> ell Archaic form of give them <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">inch</span> and they'll take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">mile</span>. 1546, John Heywood, chapter IX, <span class="searchmatch">in</span> Julian Sharman...