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 explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
- 0 Views
“
When the boss came to know about the scheme, he went off, shouting and throwing everything away.
Submitted on August 09, 2009
More phrases:
- lay down
- pack away
- put on
- put up
- ring out
- run across
- run back
- run into
- sneak up on
- touch off
- wear down
- zero in on
- add fuel to the fire
- at the wheel
- baggage
- beat a dead horse
- child's play
- chow down
- cross someone's path
- curveball
- fall off a truck
- field day
- flower
- follow through
- from cover to cover
- get off
- go out on a limb
- good job
- hard of hearing
- have other fish to fry
- in evidence
- in touch
- keep an eye on
- labor of love
- light a fire under
- lion's share
- lower the boom
- on the right track
- over and over
- play it by ear
- raise a stink
- raise the bar
- red letter day
- ride shotgun
- rock the boat
- seize the day
- shut down
- so much as
- spic and span
- spin one's wheels
- stand one's ground
- thanks a bunch
- that does it
- thin-skinned
- time after time
- to the tune of
- today we are all
- under one's thumb
- under pressure
- under the gun
Citation
Use the citation below to add Phrases.com to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Phrases.com." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 3 Jun 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