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 close an opening with a cork, cork like object or other improvised obstruction.
- 0 Views
“
He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.
Submitted on August 28, 2012
More phrases:
- knock up
- pop off
- puff out
- put down
- put down to
- quieten down
- run across
- run on
- run through
- run through
- run up against
- speak out
- square away
- start over
- swear off
- take after
- take off
- think over
- touch down
- wolf down
- at heart
- by hook or by crook
- catch-as-catch-can
- chip off the old block
- cloud nine
- cutting edge
- fat of the land
- fight tooth and nail
- flower
- for the hell of it
- full speed ahead
- go out of one's way
- go up in smoke
- gray area
- ground rules
- half a mind
- half-baked
- haul his ashes
- have a blast
- hem and haw
- if needs be
- if only
- in black and white
- in the hot seat
- lemon law
- lie through one's teeth
- lion
- make fun of
- make headway
- make out like a bandit
- morning, noon and night
- nervous as a cat
- no joy
- odds and ends
- off the bat
- on the horn
- one another
- own up
- point the finger at
- put the clock back
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 14 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