If you're talking over a cup of coffee, you have a cup of coffee on the table in front of you -- you're talking while drinking coffee. Lots of people have informal chats in coffee houses, or while having a meal or snack.
It means to pass away, as in a storm that blows over and is gone.
To finally encourage another to see things your way. Example: "First I was skeptical about her political ideas, but then she began to win me over to her way of thinking."
She was full of an emotion.
It is a fanciful way of saying that an ancestor would greatly disapprove of an action or situation. For example, "Grandma would turn over if her grave if she saw the way you acted at that party!"
n axe to grind means a complaint, something that you need to talk over with someone.
I assume you mean the idiomatic phrase 'over a cup of coffee', which generally means to be so casual about a topic that one might choose to discuss it while in a cafe or restaurant. In a simple sentence it would be used like this: 'They sat and talked about the weather over a cup of coffee'. Or 'After the scandal, both parties had calmed enough to discuss it over a cup of coffee'. This idiom can also be shortened to 'over coffee'. E.g. 'Although at first there was an issue, they talked over coffee and it was soon sorted out'.
The literal meaning is to be in water that is deeper than one is tall. The idiomatic meaning is to be too deeply involved with someone or something, beyond what one can deal with.
The literal meaning is to be in water that is deeper than one is tall. The idiomatic meaning is to be too deeply involved with someone or something, beyond what one can deal with.
In business, making a profit; not losing money.that there is profit or cash on hand. having enough to pay what one owes, with extra left over. "in the red" means in debt.have money in the bank. As opposed to being in the red, is to be in debt
Yes, it is an idiomatic expression meaning that someone is looking after, or watching over, someone else. This is drawn from a situation (e.g. a fight or battle) when someone is engaged in an activity where an inherent danger may be "behind" them and hence unseen.
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The ideal coffee-to-water ratio for making pour over coffee is typically 1:15, meaning 1 part coffee to 15 parts water.