27-letter words containing c, o, u, h, e
- the buck stops here/with me — If you say 'The buck stops here' or 'The buck stops with me', you mean that you have to take responsibility for something and will not try to pass the responsibility on to someone else.
- the hunchback of notre dame — French Notre Dame de Paris. a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo.
- to cut someone to the quick — If something cuts you to the quick, it makes you feel very upset.
- to fight a rearguard action — if someone is fighting a rearguard action or mounting a rearguard action, they are trying very hard to prevent something from happening, even though it is probably too late for them to succeed
- to practise what you preach — If you say that someone practises what they preach, you mean that they behave in the way that they encourage other people to behave in.
- to run counter to something — If one thing runs counter to another, or if one thing is counter to another, the first thing is the opposite of the second thing or conflicts with it.
- virtual machine environment — (operating system) (VME) ICL's mainframe operating system.
- you can't have it both ways — If someone says that you can't have it both ways, they are telling you that you have to choose between two things and cannot do or have them both.
- you wouldn't/won't catch me — You can say things such as 'You wouldn't catch me doing that' to emphasize that you would never do a particular thing.