Welcome to Phrases.com!
Phrases.com is a vast compilation of popular phrases, informal expressions, and idioms that have been collectively assembled by our community of contributing editors.
Enhance your English language and writing proficiency by browsing through our all-encompassing phrase dictionary in alphabetical order, or by effortlessly searching through keywords.
The act of relenting.
- 0 Views
“
It was a cave in, but I let my child have a candy to shut her up.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
More phrases:
- come through
- look back
- pin down
- punch in
- put across
- put down
- rip off
- round down
- sort out
- sort out
- speak for
- take back
- take to
- throw a fit
- turn into
- turn off
- after the fact
- at a loss
- at full tilt
- at heart
- at the ready
- be of two minds
- beat a dead horse
- catch-as-catch-can
- dark horse
- dead duck
- down to the wire
- elbow room
- even money
- for the time being
- get a jump on
- give in
- go bananas
- green light
- hand in hand
- hang out one's shingle
- heebie-jeebies
- in its infancy
- keep a close watch on
- keep an eye on
- keep an eye peeled
- lion's share
- long row to hoe
- lower the boom
- make an honest woman
- morning, noon and night
- much of a muchness
- muckety muck
- no biggie
- no holds barred
- no joy
- not be caught dead
- nugget of truth
- on a roll
- on hold
- on the nose
- out of line
- own up
- pencil-neck
- play the race card
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 24 Apr. 2024. <https://www.phrases.com/>.
Discuss everything about the Phrases.com website with our community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In