Phrase: A small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.
Most rated phrases
- On the fiddle
To be given more than one deserves
- Cold enough to freeze the balls off a...
Exceedingly cold
- Sling one's hook
To be asked in a polite manner to go away or leave
- In the offing
Something likely to happen
- Don't pick (someone) up before (he, she etc)...
Applied when someone uses to a premature correctio...
- Shipshape and Bristol fashion
To have everything in order; tidy
- Whistle for it (or something)
Not to care as the result one hopes to achieve is...
- To be left high and dry
To be stuck in bad situation; stranded in one poin...
Latest additions
- To have more money than sense
Added 2 months ago
- Dead as a doornail
Added 2 months ago
- Dumb as a rock
Added 5 months ago
- Beat someone like a drum
Added 5 months ago
- Crooked as a snake
Added 5 months ago
- Don't come the acid with me
Added 5 months ago
- It'd blow a dog off a chain
Added 4 months ago
- To learn the ropes
Added 4 months ago

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