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

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325 words · showing 61–120

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  • carry on/ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/phraseB12 meaningsTo continue doing something.
  • carry overphraseC1To keep something for a later period instead of losing it.
  • cast off/kæst ɒf/phraseC1To finish knitting by securing the last row.
  • cast onphraseC1To make the first row of loops on a knitting needle.
  • catch firephraseB12 meaningsTo start burning.
  • catch on/kæt͡ʃ ˈɒn/phraseB2
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To come to understand something.
  • catch somebody's driftphraseC1To grasp the general point somebody is making.
  • caught red-handedphraseC1Discovered in the very act of doing wrong.
  • chalk and cheesephraseC1Two things that could not be more unalike.
  • chalk upphraseC1To record a win or a total to somebody's credit.
  • chance upon/ˈt͡ʃɑːns əˌpɒn/phraseC1To meet or find by pure accident.
  • change your tunephraseC1To suddenly say the opposite of what you said before.
  • chicken outphraseC1To lose your courage at the last moment and not do it.
  • chime inphraseC1To add your voice to a conversation already going.
  • clean as a whistlephraseC1Perfectly clean, or completely free of blame.
  • clean slatephraseC1A fresh start with all past mistakes wiped away.
  • clock upphraseC1To reach a total of miles, hours or wins.
  • club togetherphraseC1To share the cost of something between several people.
  • come around tophraseC1To end up agreeing with a view you first rejected.
  • come byphraseB22 meaningsTo obtain or acquire something.
  • come out inphraseC1To develop a rash or spots on the skin.
  • coming of agephraseC1Reaching the age at which you count as an adult.
  • commuter beltphraseC1The ring of towns people travel from into a city for work.
  • compliments to the chefphraseC1A message of praise sent back to the kitchen.
  • cordon offphraseC1To close an area with a barrier so nobody may enter.
  • cotton onphraseC1To finally understand what is going on.
  • cover all the basesphraseC1To prepare for every possibility.
  • cover your tracksphraseC1To remove the signs that you were there.
  • crease upphraseC1To laugh helplessly, or to make somebody do so.
  • cross that bridge when you come to itphraseC1To deal with a problem only when it actually arrives.
  • cup your earphraseC1To hold a hand behind the ear to hear better.
  • curiosity killed the cat/kjʊə.ɹiˈɒs.ɪ.ti kɪld ðə ˈkæt/phraseC1The warning that asking too much can get you in trouble.
  • curtain upphraseC1The moment a performance begins.
  • cut cornersphraseC1To do a job cheaply and carelessly to save time or money.
  • dawn onphraseC1To become gradually clear to somebody.
  • descend onphraseC1To arrive somewhere suddenly and in numbers.
  • devil's advocatephraseC1Someone who argues the opposite side just to test the idea.
  • do away withphraseC1To abolish or get rid of something entirely.
  • do inphraseC12 meaningsTo exhaust somebody completely.
  • draw a comparisonphraseC1To point out how two things are alike.
  • draw the short strawphraseC1To be the one landed with the worst job.
  • draw upphraseC12 meaningsTo prepare a document or plan carefully.
  • dress upphraseB13 meaningsTo put on smart or formal clothes.
  • drop in the oceanphraseC1An amount far too small to matter against the need.
  • drum upphraseC1To gather support or custom through effort.
  • drum your fingersphraseC1To tap the fingers in sequence, impatiently.
  • ease offphraseC1To become less strong or less intense.
  • eat your wordsphraseC1To have to admit that what you said was wrong.
  • elephant in the roomphraseC1The huge obvious problem everyone politely ignores.
  • eye upphraseC1To look at something with interest or desire.
  • face the music/ˌfeɪs ðə ˈmjuːzɪk/phraseC1To accept the punishment for what you did.
  • fall throughphraseC1To fail to happen after being planned.
  • fat chancephraseC1Sarcastically, there is no chance whatever.
  • fathom outphraseC1To finally understand something deep or puzzling.
  • fawn overphraseC1To flatter somebody shamelessly to win their favour.
  • ferret outphraseC1To search persistently until you find something hidden.
  • fit as a fiddle/ˈfɪt æz ə ˈfɪdl̩/phraseC1In excellent health.
  • follow suitphraseC1To do the same as somebody else has just done.
  • food for thoughtphraseC1An idea worth thinking over.
  • for what it's worthphraseC1Offering an opinion while admitting it may not help.