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 automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
- 0 Views
“
If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.
Submitted on February 07, 2011
More phrases:
- go down
- live up
- look forward
- put away
- put down
- put on
- put up
- run after
- run by
- run to
- straighten out
- take away
- tee off
- think over
- walk into
- zero in on
- add fuel to the fire
- bolt bucket
- burn the midnight oil
- burst someone's bubble
- by hand
- call it a day
- catch flies
- cloud nine
- deliver the goods
- elbow room
- even money
- fat chance
- fight tooth and nail
- follow through
- food chain
- give it one's best shot
- give somebody pause
- hang out one's shingle
- have truck with
- head-in-the-sand
- in black and white
- jump the gun
- lemon law
- make a decision
- make out like a bandit
- much of a muchness
- night owl
- no biggie
- of late
- out of house and home
- own up
- pay for it
- piece of cake
- play one's cards right
- point the finger at
- price is right
- put down roots
- raise a stink
- rock bottom
- rule of thumb
- run out of steam
- sack out
- smart off
- so much as
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 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