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 reenact an old rule or law.
- 0 Views
“
In the UK it is customary to hold a vote every few years on whether to bring back the death penalty.
Submitted on August 09, 2009
More phrases:
- bring down
- cast away
- clutter up
- kick out
- knock up
- look back
- pile up
- point out
- round up
- run over
- sneak up on
- sober up
- squirrel away
- stand by
- take off
- as if
- at all hours
- by leaps and bounds
- carry one's weight
- cut of one's jib
- down-to-earth
- elbow room
- first port of call
- fish or cut bait
- flesh out
- for goodness' sake
- from a to z
- get it on
- get one's act together
- get somebody's goat
- give birth
- give birth
- gold mine
- hammer home
- have a look-see
- have second thoughts
- horse's ass
- hustle and bustle
- in heaven's name
- it takes two to tango
- king
- look like
- lucky break
- no biggie
- nugget of truth
- odds and ends
- oh dark thirty
- on the pill
- one another
- one of those days
- out of one's depth
- out of order
- out of the blue
- out of this world
- pardon my french
- pretty pictures
- price is right
- put one over
- quarter past
- rainy day
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 10 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