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

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586 words · showing 241–300

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  • hold your horsesphraseB2What you say to make someone slow down and wait.
  • hold your tonguephraseB2To stop yourself from saying what you are thinking.
  • i know the feelingphraseB2A sympathetic way of saying you have been there.
  • i'd better be offphraseB2A gentle way of saying you must leave.
  • if you ask mephraseB2Introducing an opinion nobody actually asked for.
  • if you insistphraseB2A soft agreement given after being pressed.
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  • in a nutshellphraseB2Summed up in the fewest possible words.
  • in hot waterphraseB2In serious trouble.
  • in principlephraseB2True in theory, whatever happens in practice.
  • in somebody's good booksphraseB2In favour with somebody at the moment.
  • in the dark/ɪn ðə dɑːk/phraseB2Kept without the information you need.
  • in the meantimephraseB2During the period until something else happens.
  • in the nick of timephraseB2At the very last possible moment.
  • in the same boatphraseB2Facing the very same difficult situation as the others.
  • in transitphraseB2On the way, and not yet delivered.
  • in your dreamsphraseB2A mocking way of dismissing somebody's hope.
  • it's not rocket sciencephraseB2Said of something that is really not hard to understand.
  • jack upphraseB2To lift a vehicle so a wheel can be changed.
  • jet lag/ˈd͡ʒɛt.læɡ/phraseB2The tiredness after flying across time zones.
  • jump the gunphraseB2To start before it is time.
  • junk foodphraseB2Tasty unhealthy food with lots of fat, sugar, and salt.
  • just my luckphraseB2Said bitterly when something goes wrong for you again.
  • keep a straight facephraseB2To avoid laughing or smiling when you want to.
  • keep an eye onphraseB2To watch something or someone carefully to prevent problems.
  • keep outphraseB12 meaningsTo prevent something or somebody from entering.
  • keep somebody postedphraseB2To keep telling somebody the latest news.
  • keep upphraseB2To move or progress at the same speed as the others.
  • keep your chin upphraseB2To stay cheerful when things are hard.
  • keep your headphraseB2To stay calm when everybody else is panicking.
  • kick offphraseB2To begin an event.
  • kick yourselfphraseB2To be annoyed at yourself for a missed chance.
  • kill off/kɪl ɒf/phraseB2To destroy something completely.
  • kill timephraseB2To do something unimportant while waiting.
  • kill two birds with one stonephraseB2To finish two tasks with a single action.
  • knock offphraseB22 meaningsTo reduce a price by an amount.
  • knock outphraseB22 meaningsTo render somebody unconscious with a blow.
  • know something inside outphraseB2To know a subject thoroughly in every detail.
  • know the drillphraseB2To be familiar with the usual routine.
  • launch an investigationphraseB2To start an official inquiry.
  • lay offphraseB2To dismiss workers because there is no work.
  • laze aroundphraseB2To pass time doing nothing much.
  • lean inphraseB22 meaningsTo move your upper body closer to somebody or something.
  • leave no tracephraseB2The rule that you take everything away with you.
  • let downphraseB22 meaningsTo fail somebody who was relying on you.
  • let gophraseB12 meaningsTo release your hold on something.
  • let nature take its coursephraseB2To let things happen without interfering.
  • let off steamphraseB2To release built-up energy or anger harmlessly.
  • let outphraseB22 meaningsTo make a garment wider or looser.
  • let your hair downphraseB2To relax completely and stop behaving formally.
  • let's catch upphraseB2A suggestion to meet and swap news.
  • lie aheadphraseB2To be waiting in the future.
  • life and soul of the partyphraseB2The person who makes a gathering go with a swing.
  • life of the partyphraseB2The person who makes an occasion lively.
  • like two peas in a podphraseB2So alike that you can hardly tell them apart.
  • live and let livephraseB2To accept others' ways and expect the same in return.
  • live up tophraseB2To be as good as what was promised or expected.
  • liven upphraseB2To make something more interesting or cheerful.
  • lock up/ˌlɒk ˈʌp/phraseB12 meaningsTo secure a building by locking its doors.
  • long story shortphraseB2Skipping the details and giving the outcome.
  • look aroundphraseB12 meaningsTo walk through a place to see what is there.