there

there idiom
In addition to the idioms beginning with there, also see all there; get there; hang in (there); here and there; here, there, and everywhere; in there pitching; neither here nor there; no smoke without (where there's smoke there's) fire; nothing to it (there's); somebody up there loves me; take it from here (there); then and there; where there's a will; while there's life there's hope.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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