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Hi. I think the idiom means to work hard, right? Can someone tell me more about this idiom?

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bust one's butt, "to make an extreme, strenuous effort, to exert oneself"
butt from buttocks, "end, human posterior"
bust a variatuion of burst, "break"

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Thanks a lot!
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You're most welcome, dean1.
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Hi. I got another question: shoot yourself in the butt. What does it mean?
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It's a variation on shoot yourself in the foot: if you shoot yourself in the foot, you do something that damages you, i.e., your ambition, career, etc.

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Hi. Thanks again for your reply. Btw, can you pls give me some example of idioms with 'radar', say, under the radar?
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very very very usefull thank you
but I have question
(knowing yuor place )(head and shoulder above )
what do it means?
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on someone's radar (screen), among the things being considered by someone.

EX: The problem of trash disposal is on everyone's radar screen right now. EX: This status puts the city on the radar screens of big corporations.

Usage notes: often used with words like not, off, and under to mean that something is not considered.

EX: The disease is sometimes not even on a doctor's radar screen.
EX: Some of these companies operate under everyone's radar.

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Welcome, oos.

[1] knowing your place
Try here and here.

[2] head and shoulders above
Try here.

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