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 succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
- 0 Views
“
I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
More phrases:
- cash in
- crack up
- hang on
- hold back
- hold down
- parcel out
- pick up
- pile up
- round up
- scarf down
- sniff out
- straighten out
- take upon
- a notch above
- all hell breaks loose
- as if
- at a loss
- breathe easy
- dead as a doorknob
- easy does it
- family jewels
- fit as a fiddle
- fly off the handle
- get one's claws into
- go on the rampage
- gold mine
- grace period
- heebie-jeebies
- hem and haw
- hit someone for six
- hit the spot
- horse's ass
- in light of
- in one hell of a hurry
- in touch
- keep an eye out
- kick ass
- lemon law
- let her rip
- lip service
- make believe
- make headway
- no biggie
- off and on
- old stick
- on a roll
- on steroids
- over one's head
- piss up a rope
- play it by ear
- play old harry
- price on one's head
- pull one's head in
- rock bottom
- rough around the edges
- run into the ground
- salad years
- save face
- see the light
- shotgun
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 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