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 double the quantity, amount or duration of something.
- 0 Views
“
I'm going to double up my enlistment.
Submitted on August 30, 2012
More phrases:
- knock out
- make up
- mess up
- pick up
- pull away
- round down
- sneak up on
- split up
- strike up
- tag along
- a little bird told me
- bad egg
- bad joke
- call a spade a spade
- cut of one's jib
- do-or-die
- ears are burning
- fair and square
- get the ball rolling
- give a ring
- give birth
- go up in smoke
- half a mind
- hang a ralph
- have a look-see
- hem and haw
- in black and white
- in one hell of a hurry
- in the dark
- it takes two to tango
- kiss of death
- labor of love
- lemon law
- look like
- middle ground
- middle of the road
- nail biter
- nervous as a cat
- not in kansas anymore
- off the mark
- on a full stomach
- on hold
- on the nose
- one of those days
- one thousand
- out of order
- pencil-neck
- quake in one's boots
- ride shotgun
- sack out
- see the light
- sell ice to eskimos
- smack of
- soft sawder
- swing the lead
- take a gamble
- the whole nine yards
- time after time
- tried and true
- under one's wing
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 20 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