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 extinguish due to lack of fuel.
- 0 Views
“
The candle finally burned out.
Submitted on August 09, 2009
More phrases:
- key off
- kid around
- knock up
- look on
- put down
- put up
- sneak up on
- sort out
- stand down
- stand for
- take aback
- take back
- all hell broke loose
- all of a sudden
- back to square one
- burst someone's bubble
- call a spade a spade
- chew the fat
- chow down
- cut and dried
- dark horse
- dead on
- deafening silence
- face to face
- fish or cut bait
- forty winks
- fresh legs
- gear up
- go without saying
- gold mine
- haul his ashes
- have a flat
- hold somebody's hand
- in its infancy
- keep quiet
- kiss of death
- lemon law
- lower the boom
- make headway
- mind one's own business
- nervous as a cat
- no biggie
- no frills
- object lesson
- on a roll
- out of proportion
- outside the box
- piece of cake
- pretty pictures
- pull one's weight
- ride roughshod over
- rule with an iron fist
- run hot and cold
- run into the ground
- sell ice to eskimos
- send up
- shotgun
- slip through the cracks
- so there
- stars in one's eyes
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Apr. 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