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- shsaeed - 11-16-2007
Cloud (1)
Cloud over
- Get very cloudy
Clown (2)
Clown about
- Behave stupidly or waste time
Clown around
- Behave stupidly or waste time
**** (1)
**** up
- Ruin or spoil something
Colour (1)
Colour (Color) up
- Blush
Come (29)
Come about
- Happen, occur
Come across
- Find by accident
- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you
Come apart
- Break into pieces
Come before
- Appear in court charged with a crime or offence
Come by
- Visit
- Acquire
Come down
- Rain
- Travel
Come down on
- Criticise heavily
Come down with
- Fall ill
Come forth
- Appear
Come forth with
- Provide information
Come from
- Country or town where you were born
Come in
- Arrive for flights
- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.
- Receive news
Come into
- Be important or relevant
- Inherit
Come into use
- Start being used
Come off
- When something breaks off
- Be successful
Come off it
- I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative
Come on
- Encouragement
- Start an illness
- Start functioning (machines, etc)
Come out
- A secret is revealed
- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears
Come out in
- Have a rash or similar skin problem
Come out with
- Make something available
- Say something publicly and unexpectedly
Come over
- Feel strange
Come round
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Change your opinion
Come through
- Arrive (messages and information)
- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result
Come through with
- Provide something needed
Come to
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Result in
Come up
- Appear
- Rise (the sun)
Come up against
- Encounter problems or difficulties
Come up with
- Think of a solution, excuse, etc.
Come upon
- Find by chance
- shsaeed - 11-17-2007
Conjure (1)
Conjure up
- Create a picture or memory in someone's mind
- Create something without many resources
Conk (1)
Conk out
- Fall fast asleep
- Suddenly breakdown or stop working
Contract (3)
Contract in
- Become involved or committed to something
Contract out
- Give a contract for a service outside the company you work for
Contract out of
- Formally leave and agreement
Cool (1)
Cool down
- Get cooler
- Become calm
Coop (1)
Coop up
- Confine in a small area
Cop (3)
Cop it
- Get into trouble
Cop off
- Leave work or school early
- Kiss, pet or have sex with someone
Cop out
- Choose an easy alternative
Cotton (1)
Cotton on
- To work out the truth
Could (1)
Could do with
- Need or want something
- shsaeed - 11-19-2007
Count (4)
Count in
- Include or involve
Count on
- Depend, rely
Count out
- Exclude
Count up
- Add
Cozy (2)
Cozy up
- Make yourself comfortable
Cozy up to
- Make yourself popular with someone
Crack (3)
Crack down on
- Use more authority than usual
Crack on
- Continue doing something with energy
Crack up
- Have a nervous breakdown
- Have bad reception on a mobile phone
- Burst out laughing
- Damage a car badly
Crank (2)
Crank out
- Produce a lot of something fast
Crank up
- Inject non-medical drugs
- Start a machine, originally with a handle
- Increase, make something bigger
Crash (1)
Crash out
- Sleep at someone's house because you are too tired, drunk, etc. to leave
- Fall asleep
- shsaeed - 11-20-2007
Creep (6)
Creep in
- Start to be noticeable
- Get included despite attempts to keep it or them out
Creep into
- Become noticeable in something
Creep out
- make someone feel worried or uneasy
Creep out on
- To do the same activity for a very long time
Creep over
- Start to have a negative feeling
Creep up on
- Approach without someone realising
Crop (1)
Crop up
- Appear unexpectedly
Cross (2)
Cross off
- Delete, remove from a list
Cross out
- Put as line through some writing to show it is wrong
Crumb (1)
Crumb down
- Clear a table in a restaurant
Cry (2)
Cry off
- To cancel an arrangement
Cry out
- Shout because you are in pain
- shsaeed - 11-25-2007
Cut (11)
Cut across
- Go across a place rather than around it to make the journey quicker
- Affect people of different groups, classes, etc
Cut back
- Reduce
Cut back on
- Reduce expenditure
Cut down
- Consume less
- Shoot
- Reduce a vertical thing to ground level by cutting
- Cut something from a high position
Cut down on
- Reduce
Cut in
- Start functioning
- Drive in front of another vehicle without warning
- Interrupt
- Include someone in a deal that makes money
- Mix fat and flour until the combine
Cut it out
- Stop your unfair or unreasonable behaviour
Cut off
- Disconnect
- Isolate or make inaccessible
Cut out
- Exclude
- When an engine or motor stops
- Cut a picture or similar from a magazine, etc
Cut out on
- Let down, snub
Cut up
- Cut into smaller pieces
- Drive into a neighbouring lane, directly in front of another vehicle
- Upset
- Have a lot of small injuries
- shsaeed - 11-27-2007
Dash (1)
Dash off
- Leave somewhere quickly
- Do something quickly, especially writing
Dawn (1)
Dawn on
- Finally realise or understand something
Die (5)
Die away
- Become quieter or inaudible (of a sound)
Die down
- Decrease or become quieter
Die for
- Want something a lot
Die off
- Become extinct
Die out
- Become extinct or disappear
Dig (3)
Dig in
- Start eating greedily
Dig into
- Reach inside to get something
Dig up
- Find something that is supposed to be secret
- shsaeed - 11-28-2007
Dine (2)
Dine out
- Have dinner outside your home
Dine out on
- Tell a story repeatedly that is well received
Dip (3)
Dip in
- Put something in a liquid for a short time
Dip into
- Read parts of a book, but not all
- Take money out of your savings
Dip out
- Leave a place without telling anyone
Disagree (1)
Disagree with
- Make someone feel sick or ill
Dish (2)
Dish out
- Serve food
- Give something, usually when you shouldn't
- Criticise, when you can't take criticism in return
Dish up
- Serve food
- shsaeed - 12-01-2007
Dive (2)
Dive in
- Start doing something, usually without planning
- Start eating
Dive into
- Reach inside something quickly
Divvy (2)
Divvy out
- Divide, share
Divvy up
- Divide, share
Do (4)
Do away with
- Abolish, get rid of
Do out of
- Cheat somebody out of something that is rightfully theirs
Do up
- Close or fasten clothes, etc.
- Repair and renovate
Do without
- Manage without something
Doss (3)
Doss about
- Spend time doing very little or being unproductive
Doss around
- Spend time doing very little or being unproductive
Doss down
- Sleep somewhere temporarily because you don't go home
- shsaeed - 12-04-2007
Doze (1)
Doze off
- Fall asleep
Drag (1)
Drag on
- Be unnecessarily long
Draw (7)
Draw back
- Retreat, move backwards
Draw down
- Reduce levels
- Get funding
- To deplete by consumption or heavy spending
Draw in
- Get dark earlier
- Arrive at a station (for trains)
Draw into
- Get involved in something unpleasant
Draw on
- Pass slowly (time)
- Inhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, etc
Draw out
- Make something continue longer than needed
- Make a shy person more outgoing
Draw up
- Prepare a contract
- When a vehicle stops