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

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1,209 words · showing 181–240

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  • catch you laterphraseB1A very casual way of saying goodbye.
  • caught red-handedphraseC1Discovered in the very act of doing wrong.
  • centre aroundphraseB2To have as its main subject.
  • 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.
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  • change aroundphraseB1To move things into different places.
  • change intophraseB1To put on other clothes, or to become something else.
  • change out ofphraseB1To take off what you are wearing and dress differently.
  • change the sheetsphraseB1To take off the used bedding and put clean on.
  • change your tunephraseC1To suddenly say the opposite of what you said before.
  • check inphraseB1To report your arrival at a hotel desk or an airport counter.
  • check outphraseB12 meaningsTo leave a hotel after paying.
  • cheer upphraseB1To become — or make someone — happier.
  • chicken outphraseC1To lose your courage at the last moment and not do it.
  • child's play/ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/phraseB2So simple that anyone could manage it.
  • chime inphraseC1To add your voice to a conversation already going.
  • chip inphraseB2To contribute money or a remark.
  • clap your handsphraseA2To strike the palms together in praise.
  • clean as a whistlephraseC1Perfectly clean, or completely free of blame.
  • clean slatephraseC1A fresh start with all past mistakes wiped away.
  • clear the airphraseB2To talk openly and remove bad feeling.
  • clear up/klɪəˈɹʌp/phraseB12 meaningsTo tidy a place or put things away.
  • click and collect/klɪk ənd kəˈlɛkt/phraseB2Ordering online and picking the goods up in person.
  • click your fingersphraseB2To snap the fingers to make a sharp sound.
  • clock inphraseB2To register your arrival at work.
  • clock upphraseC1To reach a total of miles, hours or wins.
  • close up/kləʊzˈʌp/phraseB1To shut for the day, or to heal over.
  • club togetherphraseC1To share the cost of something between several people.
  • cold feetphraseB2Sudden fear just before a big step, like a wedding.
  • come aboutphraseB2To happen — used when asking how something started.
  • come acrossphraseB22 meaningsTo find something by chance.
  • come around tophraseC1To end up agreeing with a view you first rejected.
  • come backphraseA22 meaningsTo return to a place.
  • come betweenphraseB2To damage the bond between two people.
  • come byphraseB22 meaningsTo obtain or acquire something.
  • come cleanphraseB2To admit the truth at last.
  • come down withphraseB2To start suffering from an illness.
  • come off itphraseB2A blunt way of telling somebody not to be ridiculous.
  • come out/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/phraseB12 meaningsTo be published or released.
  • come out inphraseC1To develop a rash or spots on the skin.
  • come out withphraseB2To say something surprising without warning.
  • come overphraseB12 meaningsTo visit someone's home.
  • come rain or shinephraseB2Whatever happens, without fail.
  • come to an agreementphraseB2To settle on terms both sides accept.
  • come to think of itphraseB2Said when a new thought strikes you mid-sentence.
  • come up withphraseB2To produce an idea, plan or solution.
  • coming of agephraseC1Reaching the age at which you count as an adult.
  • common groundphraseB2The part of a disagreement both sides can accept.
  • 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.
  • concrete junglephraseB2A city of hard buildings with nothing green in it.
  • conduct a surveyphraseB2To carry out a study of what people think.
  • congratulations/kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/phraseA22 meaningsSaid to somebody who has succeeded or had good news.
  • conveyor beltphraseB2A moving loop that carries things along.
  • convince yourselfphraseB2To talk yourself into believing something.
  • cool down/kuːl ˈdaʊn/phraseB1To become less hot — or less angry.
  • cordon offphraseC1To close an area with a barrier so nobody may enter.
  • cost an arm and a legphraseB2To be terribly expensive.
  • cost the earthphraseB2To be outrageously expensive.