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 burn to nothing.
- 0 Views
“
The police are hoping to find the people who burned down the cottage.
Submitted on August 29, 2012
More phrases:
- button up
- do in
- knock together
- look into
- pick up
- round out
- round up
- rub out
- scrounge up
- sneak up on
- stick out
- team up
- think up
- throw up
- tie up
- a cut above
- arse about face
- been there, done that
- bite one's tongue
- brass ring
- come hell or high water
- dry run
- easy does it
- fair and square
- fear
- go bananas
- grain of salt
- hang a ralph
- hang out one's shingle
- haul his ashes
- have other fish to fry
- have truck with
- horse's ass
- hustle and bustle
- in layman's terms
- kindred spirit
- lucky break
- muckety muck
- no frills
- no joy
- nuts and bolts
- of late
- on a roll
- on steroids
- pardon my french
- piss up a rope
- red letter day
- run hot and cold
- salad years
- seat-of-the-pants
- see the light
- shotgun
- slip through the cracks
- stand a chance
- state of affairs
- streak of good luck
- suck it up
- sure of oneself
- take a gamble
- take one's time
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 3 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