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

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586 words · showing 121–180

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  • cut backphraseB2To reduce the amount of something.
  • cut it outphraseB2What you snap at someone to make them stop annoying you.
  • cut off/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]phraseB2To separate or disconnect — a phone line, power, or a village by snow.
  • cut your lossesphraseB2To stop before a bad situation gets worse.
  • day in day outphraseB2Every single day, without change.
  • deal withphraseB12 meaningsTo take action about a problem or situation.
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  • dig upphraseB12 meaningsTo remove something from the ground by digging.
  • dive inphraseB2To start doing something eagerly and without delay.
  • do harmphraseB2To cause damage or injury.
  • do upphraseB12 meaningsTo fasten a garment or its buttons.
  • do withoutphraseB2To manage even though you lack something.
  • don't judge a book by its coverphraseB2The saying: appearances tell you little about what is inside.
  • double backphraseB2To turn round and go the way you came.
  • down on your luckphraseB2Going through a bad patch with no money.
  • down to earthphraseB2Practical, modest, and easy to talk to.
  • draw a blankphraseB2To search your memory and find nothing there.
  • draw a conclusionphraseB2To work out what the evidence shows.
  • draw attentionphraseB2To make people notice something.
  • draw the linephraseB2To decide how far is far enough, and refuse to go past it.
  • drop byphraseB2To make a short, casual visit without arranging it.
  • drop outphraseB2To leave a course, race or activity before completing it.
  • dry upphraseB2To lose all moisture, or to run out of things to say.
  • dwell onphraseB2To think or talk about something for too long.
  • early birdphraseB2A person who happily wakes at dawn.
  • easier said than donephraseB2The plan sounds simple but will be hard in practice.
  • edit downphraseB2To shorten a piece by cutting the weaker parts.
  • end to endphraseB2Joined so that the ends meet.
  • even sophraseB2Despite that, this is still true.
  • evenly spacedphraseB2With the same gap between each one.
  • every cloud has a silver lining[eːvɹi kʰlɑʊd hæz ə sɪlvɚ laiːnɪŋ]phraseB2The saying: something good hides in every bad situation.
  • face a challengephraseB2To have to deal with something difficult.
  • face the factsphraseB2To accept the truth of a situation.
  • face up tophraseB2To accept a difficult truth and deal with it.
  • fade awayphraseB2To grow gradually weaker until gone.
  • fair enough/fɛəɹ‿ɪˈnʌf/phraseB2Used to acknowledge that something is reasonable.
  • fair pointphraseB2An admission that your opponent is right.
  • fall apartphraseB2To break into pieces — objects, plans, or people under stress.
  • fall behindphraseB2To fail to keep up with the pace of others or payments.
  • fall forphraseB2To be tricked by a lie; also, to fall in love with someone.
  • fall short/fɔl ʃoɹt/phraseB2To fail to reach the standard needed.
  • fill a gapphraseB2To supply what was missing.
  • fill inphraseB12 meaningsTo write information into the spaces on a form.
  • fingers crossed[fɪŋɡɚz kʰɹɔst]phraseB2Said when you are hoping hard for a good outcome.
  • fix upphraseB2To arrange something, or to put it back in order.
  • flea marketnounB2An open market selling second-hand goods cheaply.
  • fly off the handlephraseB2To lose your temper very suddenly.
  • follow upphraseB2To take a further step after a first one.
  • follow your nosephraseB2To go straight on, or to trust your instinct.
  • for the time beingphraseB2For now, until something changes.
  • fossil fuelphraseB2Coal, oil, and gas — energy dug up from ancient buried life.
  • freshen upphraseB2To wash quickly and tidy yourself.
  • gain accessphraseB2To get the right or the means to enter.
  • gain experiencephraseB2To learn by doing something over time.
  • gap yearphraseB2The year off between school and university, often spent traveling.
  • get acrossphraseB2To make an idea understood by others.
  • get aheadphraseB2To become more successful than the people around you.
  • get alongphraseB12 meaningsTo have a friendly relationship with someone.
  • get aroundphraseB2To travel from place to place; also, to dodge a rule cleverly.
  • get around tophraseB2To finally do something you kept putting off.
  • get away withphraseB2To escape blame or punishment for something.