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 accumulate a large distance.
- 0 Views
“
My car has clocked up over 5,000 miles in the last month
Submitted on February 12, 2011
More phrases:
- jump up
- knock over
- mix up
- pipe down
- polish off
- put back
- ring back
- run by
- run down
- take after
- take to
- throw out
- tick over
- turn back
- zip up
- at heart
- bent on
- bite one's tongue
- blow off steam
- bring owls to athens
- by heart
- come hell or high water
- cooking with gas
- daily grind
- down to the wire
- fair game
- fall off a truck
- food chain
- fresh start
- get one's claws into
- give somebody pause
- go red
- green light
- hang a ralph
- hang out one's shingle
- honest-to-goodness
- in black and white
- keep an eye on
- kick ass
- kiss of death
- night owl
- not in kansas anymore
- nuts and bolts
- object lesson
- off and on
- one at a time
- one fell swoop
- one-off
- out of character
- pass on
- piss up a rope
- play it by ear
- pound the pavement
- pretty pictures
- ride shotgun
- see eye to eye
- see red
- shotgun approach
- sign in
- smack of
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 12 Jun 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