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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rod in Pickle (A). A scolding in store. The rod is laid in pickle to keep it ready for use. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with. |
Preparation | Guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions; make investments; keep on foot. |
Punishment | Visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one. |
Revenge | Have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. |
Scourge | Blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "ROD IN PICKLE": have a rod in pickle ♦ have a rod in pickle for ♦ have a rod in pickle for smb. ♦ keep a rod in pickle for ♦ To put a rod in pickle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ROD IN PICKLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | держать розгу наготове (have a rod in pickle). (various references) | |
Turkish | paylaşacak kozu olmak (have a bone to pick with smb., have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle for smb.), kızılcık sopasını hazır etmek (have a rod in pickle for smb.). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-k-l-n-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: cordlike, crinkled, indocile, ironlike, kindlier, pecorini, periodic, picoline, prickled, replicon. | |
-4 letters: cipolin, clinked, clinker, clonked, crinkle, crinoid, dickier, dineric, dinkier, diploic, dorneck, dornick, eidolic, ericoid, kindler, leporid, nickled, oneiric, peloric, penicil, percoid, pickier, pickled, picolin, pinocle, plinked, plinker, plonked, pockier, podlike, policed, porcine, porcini, pricked, prickle, prinked, proline, ripieno, rodlike. | |
-5 letters: cinder, cineol. | |
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