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

Letter
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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Part of speech
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586 words · showing 181–240

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  • get byphraseB2To manage to survive with just barely enough.
  • get carried awayphraseB2To become so excited you lose control of yourself.
  • get down/ɡɛt ˈdaʊn/phraseB2To make somebody feel low.
  • get offphraseA22 meaningsTo leave a vehicle.
  • get on like a house on firephraseB2To take to each other immediately and warmly.
  • get outphraseA22 meaningsTo leave or escape from a place.
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  • get the upper handphraseB2To gain the advantage over somebody.
  • get the wrong end of the stickphraseB2To misunderstand what somebody meant.
  • get through/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/phraseB22 meaningsTo survive or endure a difficult period.
  • get through tophraseB2To reach somebody, or to make them finally understand.
  • get your act togetherphraseB2To organise yourself and start doing things properly.
  • get your head aroundphraseB2To manage to understand something difficult.
  • get your own wayphraseB2To make things go exactly as you wanted.
  • give and takephraseB2The mutual yielding that keeps a relationship working.
  • give awayphraseB2To give something for free; also, to accidentally reveal a secret.
  • give inphraseB2To finally stop resisting and agree.
  • give it your allphraseB2To hold nothing back in your effort.
  • give or takephraseB2Approximately, allowing a little either way.
  • give outphraseB2To hand copies to everyone; also, to finally stop working.
  • give priorityphraseB2To deal with one thing before all the others.
  • give somebody your wordphraseB2To promise faithfully.
  • give something a missphraseB2To decide not to go or not to take part.
  • give the benefit of the doubtphraseB2To believe somebody when you cannot be sure.
  • glance awayphraseB2To look aside quickly.
  • global warmingphraseB2The heating of the planet by trapped gases.
  • go backphraseA22 meaningsTo return to a place you were before.
  • go halvesphraseB2To split the cost equally between two.
  • go offphraseB22 meaningsTo explode, or to sound suddenly.
  • go overphraseB22 meaningsTo examine or review something carefully.
  • go the extra mile/ˈɡəʊ ði ˈɛk.stɹə ˈmaɪl/phraseB2To do more than duty requires.
  • go throughphraseB22 meaningsTo experience something difficult.
  • go to your headphraseB2To make you conceited, or to make you tipsy.
  • go with the flowphraseB2To accept what happens rather than fight it.
  • grit your teethphraseB2To clench the jaw against pain or anger.
  • grow onphraseB2To become liked more the longer you know it.
  • grow out ofphraseB2To become too old or too big for something.
  • hand inphraseB12 meaningsTo submit completed work to somebody in authority.
  • hang in therephraseB2What you tell someone struggling: keep going, do not quit.
  • hard of hearingphraseB2Having difficulty in hearing sounds.
  • have a change of heartphraseB2To come round to feeling quite differently.
  • have a gophraseB22 meaningsTo make an attempt at something.
  • have a good onephraseB2A friendly farewell wishing somebody a good day.
  • have a lot on your platephraseB2To be dealing with more work and worry than fits.
  • have an effectphraseB2To produce a change in something.
  • have an impactphraseB2To make a strong difference to something.
  • have green fingersphraseB2To be very good at making plants grow.
  • have second thoughtsphraseB2To start doubting a decision you made.
  • have the upper handphraseB2To be in the stronger position.
  • have time on your handsphraseB2To have more free time than you know what to do with.
  • head offphraseB22 meaningsTo prevent something by acting in advance.
  • headline newsphraseB2The most important stories of the day, read first on every channel.
  • hear outphraseB2To listen to somebody until they have finished.
  • heart of goldphraseB2A deeply kind and generous nature.
  • hit backphraseB2To answer an attack with one of your own.
  • hit the booksphraseB2To start studying seriously.
  • hit the roadphraseB2To leave and start your journey.
  • hold an opinionphraseB2To believe a particular thing.
  • hold backphraseB22 meaningsTo restrain something or keep it in.
  • hold onphraseB13 meaningsTo wait a moment.
  • hold upphraseB22 meaningsTo delay somebody or something.