Wits
81pit (your) wits against — (someone/something) to compete against someone or something using your intelligence. That s the pleasure of fishing pitting your wits against these clever little fish that are trying desperately not to get caught …
82at your wits' end — If you are at your wits end, you have no idea what to do next and are very frustrated …
83bavin wits — plural noun (Shakespeare) Wits that blaze and die like bavins • • • Main Entry: ↑bavin …
84at your wits' end — at your wits’ end phrase so worried and tired because of your problems that you cannot think of any more ways of solving them I’m at my wits’ end trying to think of ways to amuse these children. Thesaurus: not able to think clearlysynonym feeling …
85live by your wits — live by/on/your wits phrase to have no real job but make the money that you need by being clever or dishonest Thesaurus: to live in a particular wayhyponym Main entry: live * * * live by your ˈwits …
86pit your wits against — phrase to use all of your intelligence to try to defeat someone or to solve a problem Two teams of experts will pit their wits against one another in the final round of the quiz. Thesaurus: to try to deal with a problem or difficultysynonym… …
87out of your wits — informal used for emphasis with verbs like scare and frighten I was scared out of my wits! [=I was very scared; I was so scared that I couldn t think clearly] • • • Main Entry: ↑wit …
88(be) at your wits' end — be at your wits ˈend idiom to be so worried by a problem that you do not know what to do next • She was at her wits end wondering how she d manage it all in the time. Main entry: ↑witidiom …
89frightened out of one's wits — See: OUT OF ONE S WITS …
90out of one's wits — See: SCARE OUT OF ONE S WITS …