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.
To elicit, evoke, or emphasize a particular quality.
- 0 Views
“
She brings out the best in him.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
- call on
- cool down
- drop off
- fall into
- fire off
- hack into
- keep down
- round up
- run into
- step up
- tag along
- take on
- throw down
- tie up
- top up
- vote out
- wear down
- and then some
- apple of somebody's eye
- at a stand
- bad for you
- bad joke
- beside oneself
- by heart
- class clown
- daily grind
- flesh out
- from the word go
- get it on
- go for it
- good job
- hand in hand
- have a cow
- in line
- kick ass
- light up
- lion
- make believe
- nail biter
- not be caught dead
- not half bad
- not in kansas anymore
- off-color
- oh dark thirty
- pound sand
- rain cheque
- right on
- rough around the edges
- sack out
- salad years
- save face
- see the light
- so much as
- spill one's guts
- spin one's wheels
- stand one's ground
- stars in one's eyes
- take a gander
- take a spin
- the whole nine yards
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 9 May 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