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

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586 words · showing 301–360

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  • look down onphraseB2To treat someone as beneath you.
  • look intophraseB2To investigate something in order to find out more.
  • look out forphraseB2To watch carefully in order to notice something.
  • look throughphraseB2To examine a collection of things one by one.
  • look up/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/phraseB13 meaningsTo search for information in a reference source.
  • look up tophraseB2To admire someone as your example.
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  • lose sight ofphraseB2To stop being able to see something.
  • lose touchphraseB22 meaningsTo stop being in contact with somebody.
  • lose track of timephraseB2To be so absorbed you forget how late it is.
  • lose your nervephraseB2To find your courage gone at the last moment.
  • lose your temperphraseB2To stop controlling your anger.
  • machine learningphraseB2Teaching computers by showing them examples instead of writing rules.
  • make dophraseB2To manage with what little you have.
  • make ends meetphraseB2To just manage to pay for life on the money you have.
  • make out/meɪk aʊt/phraseB22 meaningsTo manage to see or hear something indistinct.
  • make overphraseB2To give something a completely new look.
  • make up/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/phraseB22 meaningsTo invent something untrue.
  • make up forphraseB2To compensate for something bad you did.
  • maternity leavephraseB2A period of leave from work granted to a mother around childbirth.
  • meet a deadlinephraseB2To finish by the time set.
  • meet a requirementphraseB2To satisfy what is demanded.
  • meet expectationsphraseB2To be as good as people hoped.
  • meet halfwayphraseB2To settle by each side moving the same distance.
  • mess aboutphraseB22 meaningsTo waste time doing nothing useful.
  • mind your own businessphraseB2A sharp refusal to explain yourself.
  • more often than notphraseB2In the majority of cases.
  • mother-in-law/ˈmʌ.ðəɹ.ɪnˌlɔː/phraseB2The mother of your husband or wife.
  • motion sicknessphraseB2The dizzy sick feeling some people get in moving cars and boats.
  • mount upphraseB2To grow steadily larger, as costs do.
  • move onphraseB22 meaningsTo put a difficult experience behind you and continue.
  • night owl/ˈnaɪt aʊl/phraseB2A person who comes alive after midnight.
  • no kiddingphraseB2Said in surprise, or in flat disbelief.
  • no offencephraseB2Said before something that might sting.
  • no pain, no gainphraseB2The gym saying: results demand suffering.
  • no vacancyphraseB2The lit-up sign meaning the hotel is completely full.
  • none of your businessphraseB2Used to say that something does not concern the person asking.
  • none takenphraseB2A reply meaning you were not upset by the remark.
  • not a hopephraseB2There is no possibility at all.
  • nothing to declarephraseB2The channel for travellers carrying nothing taxable.
  • now that you mention itphraseB2Said when somebody's remark reminds you of something.
  • occur tophraseB2To come into somebody's mind as an idea.
  • off the beaten trackphraseB2Away from the places most people go.
  • off the top of my headphraseB2Answering from memory, without checking.
  • on callphraseB2Available to be called on for work at any time.
  • on cloud ninephraseB2Floating with pure happiness.
  • on good termsphraseB2In a friendly relationship with somebody.
  • on second thoughtphraseB2Having reconsidered.
  • on the mendphraseB2Getting better after being ill.
  • on the same pagephraseB2Agreeing and understanding things the same way.
  • on the same wavelengthphraseB2Understanding each other without having to explain.
  • on the spur of the momentphraseB2Decided suddenly, with no planning at all.
  • on the tip of my tonguephraseB2Almost remembered, and refusing to arrive.
  • on the wholephraseB2Generally speaking, ignoring the exceptions.
  • on thin icephraseB2In a risky position where one more mistake means trouble.
  • once in a blue moon/wʌns ɪn ə bluː muːn/phraseB2Happening extremely rarely.
  • one of these daysphraseB2At some unspecified future time.
  • open source/ˈoʊpən ˌsɔɹs/phraseB2Software whose code is public and may be changed.
  • opt outphraseB2To choose not to take part.
  • out of printphraseB2No longer being produced by the publisher.
  • out of the blue/aʊt əv ðə ˈbluː/phraseB2Completely unexpectedly.