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 turn something away; to ward off.
- 0 Views
“
She fended away his eager hands.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
More phrases:
- kick in
- look back
- lump together
- play down
- plump up
- put forward
- put up with
- run across
- stick out
- tie up
- at the ready
- been to the rodeo
- bolt bucket
- breathe easy
- carry on
- check is in the mail
- chew the fat
- cut of one's jib
- dead
- easy as pie
- eat one's hat
- elbow room
- fit as a fiddle
- flea in one's ear
- fresh legs
- give birth
- go red
- hand in hand
- in black and white
- in black and white
- in the nick of time
- light a fire under
- long row to hoe
- lump in one's throat
- make headway
- off and on
- off the mark
- oh dark thirty
- on a roll
- on hold
- on the right track
- one thousand
- out of line
- pencil-neck
- penny pincher
- rock the boat
- rule with an iron fist
- seat-of-the-pants
- see eye to eye
- sign in
- silver spoon
- sit tight
- smart off
- sob story
- spill one's guts
- spin one's wheels
- state of affairs
- take a gamble
- take one's time
- test the waters
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 7 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