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 use something after a long time without it.
- 0 Views
“
I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
Submitted on September 02, 2012
More phrases:
- eat out
- fall apart
- fall into
- gussie up
- hold back
- pick up
- pig out
- pile up
- polish off
- potter around
- sneak up
- sneak up on
- sort out
- stamp out
- stand by
- stand for
- step down
- swear off
- take back
- take over
- zero in
- all of a sudden
- back-to-back
- bad joke
- behind closed doors
- call it a day
- call it quits
- can of worms
- day in, day out
- easy as pie
- eye candy
- fish or cut bait
- flea in one's ear
- follow through
- go out on a limb
- good job
- grain of salt
- green light
- home stretch
- honest-to-goodness
- in the dark
- in the nick of time
- let her rip
- look like
- make out like a bandit
- mind one's own business
- muckety muck
- no joy
- not be caught dead
- number one
- off and on
- old school
- on hold
- on the horn
- on the pill
- on top of the world
- one thousand
- pardon my french
- quake in one's boots
- red letter day
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 27 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