colloq.
41pull in one's horns — (Colloq.) Repress one s ardor, restrain one s pride, cease boasting …
42put in one's oar — (Colloq.) Interfere, meddle, intermeddle …
43smell a rat — (Colloq.) Get an inkling, have a strong suspicion …
44stand it — (Colloq.) Endure it, bear it, put up with it …
45tag after — (Colloq.) Follow closely, keep at one s heels …
46take a horn — (Colloq.) Take a drink (of spirituous liquor) …
47take to do — (Colloq.) Reprove, take to task …
48talk big — (Colloq.) Boast, brag, vaunt, gasconade, bluster, vapor, exalt one s self, magnify one s self, se faire valoir …
49thrust one's nose in — (Colloq.) Interfere, meddle, intermeddle, put in one s oar …
50turn tail — (Colloq.) Flee, run away, make off, cut and run, retreat ignominiously …