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 sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
- 0 Views
“
After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
- keep away from
- kick off
- mike up
- pipe down
- pour out
- put down
- put forth
- put off
- ring in
- round down
- take back
- take over
- vote out
- wail on
- a different ballpark
- after the fact
- brush up
- can of worms
- check is in the mail
- curveball
- cut it out
- cutting edge
- dead duck
- ears are burning
- every man jack
- flutter in the dovecote
- food chain
- from the word go
- get into trouble
- give birth
- good luck with that
- green light
- head-in-the-sand
- heart to heart
- hem and haw
- in a nutshell
- in the hot seat
- keep a lid on
- keep quiet
- lie through one's teeth
- lower the boom
- nine lives
- no slouch
- off the bat
- old stick
- on board
- on hold
- on steroids
- on the horn
- on the pill
- one at a time
- one-off
- over and over
- over one's head
- party pooper
- play one's cards right
- play the race card
- pound sand
- pound the pavement
- put down roots
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 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