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

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325 words · showing 181–240

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  • many hands make light workphraseC1A job is easy when everybody helps.
  • meet somebody's eyephraseC1To look directly at somebody who is looking at you.
  • mend fencesphraseC1To put a quarrel right and be friends again.
  • mess aboutphraseB22 meaningsTo waste time doing nothing useful.
  • mill aboutphraseC1To move around aimlessly in a crowd.
  • mind youphraseC1Used to add a qualifying thought.
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miss the boatphraseC1To lose an opportunity by acting too late.
  • move in/ˌmuːv ˈɪn/phraseB12 meaningsTo begin living in a new home.
  • mustn't grumblephraseC1A very British way of admitting things are all right.
  • need to knowphraseC1Restricted to those whose duties require the information.
  • neither here nor therephraseC1Not relevant to the point being discussed.
  • never you mindphraseC1A playful refusal to answer a nosy question.
  • next of kinphraseC1A person's closest living relative, recorded for official purposes.
  • no rhyme or reasonphraseC1No sense or pattern to it whatsoever.
  • nod offphraseC1To fall asleep without meaning to.
  • not have a leg to stand onphraseC1To have no evidence or argument at all.
  • not see the wood for the treesphraseC1To be so lost in detail that you miss the whole.
  • off the gridphraseC1Living where no record or signal can find you.
  • off the recordphraseC1Said privately, not to be quoted or published.
  • on a whimphraseC1Acting on a sudden fancy rather than a plan.
  • on balancephraseC1Taking everything into account.
  • on the ballphraseC1Alert, quick, and on top of everything.
  • on the fencephraseC1Undecided between two positions.
  • on the grapevinephraseC1By word of mouth passed informally from person to person.
  • on the recordphraseC1Said in a way that may be quoted with your name.
  • on the townphraseC1Out enjoying the bars and clubs of a city.
  • once bitten, twice shyphraseC1The saying: after being hurt, you are careful ever after.
  • open a can of wormsphraseC1To start something that creates many new problems.
  • paper overphraseC1To hide a problem instead of solving it.
  • par for the course/ˈpɑː fə ðə ˈkɔːs/phraseC1Exactly the sort of trouble you should have expected.
  • pass outphraseB22 meaningsTo lose consciousness suddenly.
  • pass the buckphraseC1To push responsibility onto somebody else.
  • peg outphraseC1To hang washing on a line with clips.
  • pin downphraseC1To get a clear answer out of somebody.
  • play devil's advocatephraseC1To argue the opposite side to test an idea.
  • play it by earphraseC1To decide as you go rather than plan ahead.
  • play upphraseC12 meaningsTo behave badly or be difficult.
  • please/pliːz/phraseA13 meaningsAdded to a request to make it polite.
  • poke aroundphraseC1To search casually through somebody's things.
  • pour cold water onphraseC1To dampen somebody's enthusiasm for an idea.
  • pride of placephraseC1The best and most prominent position of all.
  • puff upphraseC1To swell out, or to make somebody conceited.
  • pull offphraseC1To succeed in doing something difficult.
  • pull out all the stops/ˈpʊl‿aʊt‿ɔːl ðə ˈstɒps/phraseC1To make every possible effort.
  • pull stringsphraseC1To use private influence to get something arranged.
  • purse your lipsphraseC1To press the lips together in disapproval.
  • push the envelope/ˌpʊʃ ðiː ˈɛnvələʊp/phraseC1To go past the usual limits of what is done.
  • put awayphraseA22 meaningsTo return something to its proper place.
  • put two and two togetherphraseC1To work out the truth from the clues you have.
  • put your foot in itphraseC1To say something that causes embarrassment.
  • rack your brainsphraseC1To search your memory hard for something.
  • rail againstphraseC1To complain bitterly and at length about something.
  • rain on someone's paradephraseC1To spoil somebody's enjoyment of their moment.
  • rattle offphraseC1To say a long list quickly and without effort.
  • reckless abandonphraseC1Behaviour with no thought for the danger at all.
  • rein inphraseC1To pull a horse up, or to hold something back.
  • reinvent the wheel/ˌɹiːɪnˌvɛnt ðə ˈ(h)wiːl/phraseC1To waste effort making again what already exists.
  • roll upphraseB22 meaningsTo turn something over on itself into a roll.
  • round onphraseC1To turn suddenly and attack somebody with words.
  • round the bendphraseC1Driven mad or completely irrational.