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.
As an allusion to the cooking technique of reducing liquids by heat, one boils down a problem, argument, etc. to its most central elements.
- 0 Views
“
So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
Submitted on September 26, 2012
More phrases:
- cave in
- crank up
- hold on
- mess around
- pick up
- polish off
- pull up
- pull up
- put forward
- read out
- read out
- rip off
- run away with
- split up
- team up
- tumble to
- ward off
- a cold day in hell
- a little bird told me
- all hell broke loose
- at home
- catch flies
- diamond in the rough
- dyed-in-the-wool
- easy does it
- elbow room
- fair and square
- family jewels
- feather in one's cap
- follow through
- fresh legs
- full speed ahead
- gear up
- get the ball rolling
- have a cow
- have truck with
- hit someone for six
- hit the spot
- home stretch
- in one hell of a hurry
- in the works
- keep somebody posted
- keep your hair on
- kick ass
- lion's share
- muckety muck
- on a full stomach
- on thin ice
- out of house and home
- out of order
- out of order
- out of this world
- pass on
- piece of cake
- pull one's weight
- pump iron
- push the envelope
- put one over
- quick-and-dirty
- red face test
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 24 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