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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

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  • break the newsphraseB2To be the one who tells somebody something important, and usually bad.
  • bring aboutphraseB2To make something happen.
  • bring outphraseB2To release something to the public, or to make a quality show.
  • bring togetherphraseB2To make people meet or work as one.
  • bring upphraseB22 meaningsTo care for and educate a child until adulthood.
  • brush up onphraseB2To refresh a skill you have not used for a while.
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build bridges/bɪld ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪz/phraseB2To repair a relationship between people.
  • build upphraseB22 meaningsTo increase or accumulate gradually.
  • burst inphraseB2To enter suddenly and without warning.
  • bury your head in the sandphraseB2To refuse to face a problem you know is there.
  • buy timephraseB2To delay in order to gain more time.
  • by all meansphraseB2A generous way of saying yes, certainly.
  • by definitionphraseB2Necessarily true because of the meaning of the words involved.
  • call it a dayphraseB2To stop working for the day, or to end something for good.
  • call offphraseB2To decide a planned event will not happen.
  • call outphraseB12 meaningsTo shout in order to be heard.
  • can't complainphraseB2A cheerful way of saying life is going well enough.
  • cancel outphraseB2To have an opposite effect that leaves nothing gained.
  • carry out/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/phraseB2To actually do a plan, order, or experiment.
  • carry out researchphraseB2To do systematic study of a subject.
  • catch a glimpsephraseB2To see something for only a moment.
  • catch on/kæt͡ʃ ˈɒn/phraseB22 meaningsTo come to understand something.
  • catch sight ofphraseB2To see something briefly and unexpectedly.
  • catch somebody's eyephraseB2To attract somebody's notice.
  • centre aroundphraseB2To have as its main subject.
  • child's play/ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/phraseB2So simple that anyone could manage it.
  • chip inphraseB2To contribute money or a remark.
  • clear the airphraseB2To talk openly and remove bad feeling.
  • click and collect/klɪk ənd kəˈlɛkt/phraseB2Ordering online and picking the goods up in person.
  • click your fingersphraseB2To snap the fingers to make a sharp sound.
  • clock inphraseB2To register your arrival at work.
  • cold feetphraseB2Sudden fear just before a big step, like a wedding.
  • come aboutphraseB2To happen — used when asking how something started.
  • come acrossphraseB22 meaningsTo find something by chance.
  • come backphraseA22 meaningsTo return to a place.
  • come betweenphraseB2To damage the bond between two people.
  • come byphraseB22 meaningsTo obtain or acquire something.
  • come cleanphraseB2To admit the truth at last.
  • come down withphraseB2To start suffering from an illness.
  • come off itphraseB2A blunt way of telling somebody not to be ridiculous.
  • come out withphraseB2To say something surprising without warning.
  • come overphraseB12 meaningsTo visit someone's home.
  • come rain or shinephraseB2Whatever happens, without fail.
  • come to an agreementphraseB2To settle on terms both sides accept.
  • come to think of itphraseB2Said when a new thought strikes you mid-sentence.
  • come up withphraseB2To produce an idea, plan or solution.
  • common groundphraseB2The part of a disagreement both sides can accept.
  • concrete junglephraseB2A city of hard buildings with nothing green in it.
  • conduct a surveyphraseB2To carry out a study of what people think.
  • conveyor beltphraseB2A moving loop that carries things along.
  • convince yourselfphraseB2To talk yourself into believing something.
  • cost an arm and a legphraseB2To be terribly expensive.
  • cost the earthphraseB2To be outrageously expensive.
  • couch potato/ˈkaʊtʃ pəˌteɪtəʊ/phraseB2A person who lies on the sofa watching TV all day.
  • count on/kaʊntʌn/phraseB2To rely on someone or something with confidence.
  • crack down onphraseB2To start dealing with something far more strictly.
  • creep up onphraseB2To approach unnoticed, as age or a deadline does.
  • crop upphraseB2To appear unexpectedly.
  • cross your mindphraseB2For a thought to pass through briefly.
  • cry over spilled milkphraseB2To waste sadness on a small mistake already made.