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 make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- 0 Views
“
The afternoon breeze messed up my hair.
Submitted on August 30, 2012
More phrases:
- play up
- puff out
- run back
- run down
- run over
- spell out
- squirrel away
- stand back
- take apart
- take to
- walk into
- zero in on
- above the law
- as well
- at a loss for words
- be my guest
- beat around the bush
- brass ring
- brown thumb
- common-or-garden
- day in, day out
- easy as pie
- eat one's words
- fat of the land
- full speed ahead
- get it
- give in
- give somebody what-for
- go red
- gold mine
- have a flat
- is the pope catholic
- keep one on one's toes
- kick the bucket
- king
- lie through one's teeth
- light a fire under
- no holds barred
- oh dark thirty
- on edge
- on top of the world
- out of house and home
- out of house and home
- out of line
- over and over
- pencil-neck
- penny pincher
- play one's cards right
- pound the pavement
- pretty pictures
- quarter past
- rainy day
- raise a stink
- rough trot
- rule with an iron fist
- run out of steam
- scare the pants off of
- see eye to eye
- shot in the arm
- stand one's ground
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 11 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