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 teem with; abound with; to exhibit an energetic and active abundance of a thing; to be full of a certain activity or active beings.
- 0 Views
“
The whole campus was bustling with anticipation.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
More phrases:
- check out
- hang around
- hold up
- knock down
- orange up
- pack away
- put away
- put down
- run for
- speak up
- tick over
- tuck in
- turn out
- vote in
- zip up
- above the law
- as well
- back-to-back
- beat around the bush
- by hand
- call it a day
- catch a tan
- catch flies
- cooking with gas
- crown jewels
- cut and dried
- cut it out
- from time to time
- full speed ahead
- gloss over
- go bananas
- go blue
- green light
- ham it up
- hand in hand
- hem and haw
- in black and white
- in the hot seat
- make an honest woman
- middle of nowhere
- mind one's own business
- nervous as a cat
- nine lives
- no biggie
- no frills
- no slouch
- old stick
- on a roll
- on the pill
- on the right track
- pachyderm
- pardon my french
- play it by ear
- play the race card
- pound sand
- pretty pictures
- price on one's head
- pull one's head in
- quarter past
- right on
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 26 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