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 complain strongly, usually as a group.
- 0 Views
“
Action groups are crying out against plans to build on the woodland area.
Submitted on August 29, 2012
More phrases:
- fall through
- lay down
- look into
- run for
- stretch out
- vote out
- walk into
- as all get-out
- at one's beck and call
- blessing in disguise
- come to terms
- dead
- deafening silence
- early bath
- even money
- every which way
- fair and square
- fine line
- fit as a fiddle
- follow through
- for the hell of it
- fresh start
- from cover to cover
- get one's act together
- get somebody's goat
- hack it
- hammer home
- haul ass
- have a flat
- head-in-the-sand
- heart of gold
- heart to heart
- hot potato
- in line
- in order
- in the hot seat
- kick the bucket
- lip service
- look like
- make headway
- nail biter
- no holds barred
- nuts and bolts
- out of house and home
- over one's head
- pretty pictures
- price is right
- pull one's weight
- put one over
- rain cheque
- rule with an iron fist
- run into the ground
- salad years
- second banana
- second banana
- shot in the arm
- smash hit
- so much as
- square meal
- stand a chance
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 5 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