all dressed up and nowhere to go
all dressed up and nowhere to go and all dressed up with nowhere to go
completely ready for something that has been postponed or has failed to materialize. (May be literal or figurative.)
Tom: I just heard that your company is closed today. Fred: Gee, I'm all dressed up and nowhere to go.
The space shot was cancelled, so all the astronauts are all dressed up with nowhere to go.
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- a busman's holiday
- adapt sth for sth
- advance
- a foregone conclusion
- after
- after the fashion of so or sth
- After while(, crocodile).
- after the fact
- a handful
- a hard time
- ain't fittin' to roll with a pig
- alive with people or things
- all in one piece
- (all) well and good
- a long shot
- alongside
- altar
- alternate with sth
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- And that's that.
- An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of theory.
