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Answer:
1.Hold your horses
2. Couch potato
3. By the skin of your teeth
Explanation:
1. When someone bellows at you to hold your horses, don’t go around, panic-stricken, looking for a horse to hold. It simply means you need to stay put or slow down. This phrase has been used as early as Homer’s Iliad. There have been many usage since then, literal at first but which later on evolved into a figurative usage.
Meaning: It’s a way of telling someone to stop or slow down.
Example: Whoa, hold your horses! I’m not paying up, the game’s far from over!
2. Another potato idiom, but this time one that’s in front of a TV with a bowl of chips in hand. It’s a couch potato!
Meaning: A person who does not lead an active life and would rather stay on the couch, watching TV.
Example: Couch potatoes, unite! In our own couches. At home. Separately. While watching TV.
3. Does your skin even have teeth? Kinda weird, I know. But this phrase actually originated from the Bible, in the Book of Job:
‘My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth’ (19:20).
Meaning: narrowly, barely, or by a very small margin
Example: Good thing he realized the trouble he’s in before he could propose. He escaped that wicked woman’s grasp by the skin of his teeth!