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

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  • heart of goldphraseB2A deeply kind and generous nature.
  • heat upphraseB1To become warmer, or to become more intense.
  • hello/hɛˈloʊ/phraseA14 meaningsA greeting used when you meet somebody.
  • help yourselfphraseB1Take as much as you want without asking.
  • here goes nothingphraseC1Said just before trying something that may well fail.
  • high heels/haɪ hiːlz/phraseB1Elegant shoes that lift the back of the foot far off the ground.
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  • hit backphraseB2To answer an attack with one of your own.
  • hit the booksphraseB2To start studying seriously.
  • hit the hayphraseC1To go to bed.
  • hit the nail on the headphraseC1To describe a situation exactly right.
  • hit the roadphraseB2To leave and start your journey.
  • hit the sackphraseC1To go to bed.
  • hit uponphraseC1To think of an idea suddenly.
  • hold a meetingphraseB1To gather people together to discuss matters.
  • hold an opinionphraseB2To believe a particular thing.
  • hold backphraseB22 meaningsTo restrain something or keep it in.
  • hold onphraseB13 meaningsTo wait a moment.
  • hold swayphraseC1To have controlling influence over something.
  • hold upphraseB22 meaningsTo delay somebody or something.
  • hold your breathphraseB1To stop breathing for a moment — on purpose, or because the tension has done it for you.
  • hold your horsesphraseB2What you say to make someone slow down and wait.
  • hold your nosephraseB1To pinch the nostrils shut against a smell.
  • hold your tonguephraseB2To stop yourself from saying what you are thinking.
  • home sweet home/həʊm swiːt həʊm/phraseB1The comfort of being back in your own house.
  • hot dog/ˈhɒt.dɒɡ/phraseA2A long sausage in a long soft bun, sold at street stands.
  • hot-air balloonphraseB1The giant colorful bag of heated air that carries a basket into the sky.
  • how do you dophraseA2A very formal greeting used on first meeting somebody.
  • how's it goingphraseA2A relaxed way of asking whether somebody is well.
  • hurtle downphraseC1To rush downward with great and uncontrolled speed.
  • i know the feelingphraseB2A sympathetic way of saying you have been there.
  • i see what you meanphraseB1Showing that you now follow the argument.
  • i should get goingphraseB1A soft announcement that you are leaving.
  • i take your pointphraseC1Accepting an argument even while disagreeing.
  • i'd better be offphraseB2A gentle way of saying you must leave.
  • ice coldphraseA2Chilled almost to freezing.
  • ice cream/ˌaɪsˈkɹiːm/phraseA1A sweet frozen food made from cream or milk.
  • if i mayphraseC1A courteous way of asking permission to speak.
  • if you ask mephraseB2Introducing an opinion nobody actually asked for.
  • if you insistphraseB2A soft agreement given after being pressed.
  • in a circlephraseA2Arranged around in a ring.
  • in a minutephraseA2Very soon, but not right now.
  • in a nutshellphraseB2Summed up in the fewest possible words.
  • in a rowphraseA2Arranged in one straight line.
  • in advancephraseB1Before the event or time concerned.
  • in donkey's yearsphraseC1In a very long time indeed.
  • in front ofphraseA12 meaningsPositioned ahead of or facing something.
  • in hindsightphraseC1Looking back with the knowledge you have now.
  • 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 blackphraseC1Having money left over rather than owing.
  • in the dark/ɪn ðə dɑːk/phraseB2Kept without the information you need.
  • in the endphraseB1Finally, after everything that has happened.
  • in the meantimephraseB2During the period until something else happens.
  • in the middle of nowherephraseB1Far from any town or anything at all.
  • in the nick of timephraseB2At the very last possible moment.
  • in the redphraseC1Owing money; overdrawn.
  • in the same boatphraseB2Facing the very same difficult situation as the others.
  • in the sticksphraseC1Out in the remote countryside, far from the city.
  • in transitphraseB2On the way, and not yet delivered.