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 intensify one's efforts.
- 0 Views
“
It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
- cool down
- hold up
- play around
- puff up
- put forward
- run into
- run on
- split up
- stand in for
- sum up
- take a crack at
- take a stand
- take aback
- take back
- think over
- think up
- tone down
- wear down
- all that jazz
- at the wheel
- born yesterday
- curveball
- cut of one's jib
- day in, day out
- don't get me started
- flower
- forty winks
- front runner
- get off
- get somebody's goat
- go bananas
- go on the rampage
- grunt work
- hit the spot
- hold your fire
- horse's ass
- in light of
- in one hell of a hurry
- it takes two to tango
- jolly someone along
- keep a lid on
- keep one on one's toes
- king
- lion
- lion's share
- lucky break
- make fun of
- nail biter
- odds and ends
- on board
- on steroids
- one thousand
- out of character
- out of gas
- out of this world
- outside the box
- own up
- piss up a rope
- pound the pavement
- pull one's weight
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 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