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 write something very quickly, without much thought.
- 0 Views
“
I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.
Submitted on April 11, 2012
More phrases:
- go off
- hold out
- pass out
- plump up
- put up
- rip off
- run across
- start over
- suck into
- take back
- ward off
- above the law
- back-to-back
- beat a dead horse
- beauty sleep
- chip off the old block
- class clown
- day in, day out
- dead on
- face to face
- fat of the land
- fine line
- flower
- go up in smoke
- go without saying
- golden opportunity
- hammer home
- have a cow
- have a flat
- have other fish to fry
- heart of gold
- hit a snag
- hit the spot
- horse's ass
- in light of
- in line
- in one hell of a hurry
- in the works
- it takes two to tango
- make an honest woman
- middle of the road
- move heaven and earth
- nervous as a cat
- night owl
- no biggie
- not half bad
- number one
- off and on
- old school
- on a roll
- pencil-neck
- play the race card
- price is right
- put one over
- ride roughshod over
- rock bottom
- rough around the edges
- rough trot
- rule of thumb
- rule with an iron fist
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