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 increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
- 0 Views
“
He cranked up the volume to 11.
Submitted on May 16, 2010
More phrases:
- cross off
- kid around
- mess up
- puff out
- swear off
- tumble to
- after the fact
- as far as one knows
- ass over teakettle
- be-all and end-all
- blessing in disguise
- brush up
- cheek by jowl
- come to terms
- common-or-garden
- cooking with gas
- drop a dime
- easy does it
- elbow room
- even money
- feather in one's cap
- forty winks
- give birth
- go blue
- hammer home
- hard of hearing
- haul his ashes
- have a heart
- hit someone for six
- in evidence
- in its infancy
- in light of
- keep somebody posted
- kindred soul
- kiss of death
- light a fire under
- middle of nowhere
- not in kansas anymore
- nuts and bolts
- of late
- off the bat
- on steroids
- on the spot
- on thin ice
- one fell swoop
- one thousand
- out of order
- play it by ear
- price on one's head
- push the envelope
- rush hour
- sack out
- see yellow
- shore up
- small fry
- smash hit
- suck it up
- sure of oneself
- take one's time
- talk a blue streak
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 15 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