Best idiomatic dictionary for free, A to z

Drag your heels: To delay doing something or do it very slowly, indicating your displeasure and disinterest.

Draw a line in the sand: To establish a limit beyond which things are be unacceptable.

Draw a long bow: To lie or exaggerate.

Dress someone down: To scold someone.

Dress to kill: To be dressed very smartly.

Dressed to the nines: To be dressed in you best clothes.

Drive a wedge: To create misunderstanding between people.

Drive home: To reinforce.

Drive someone up the wall: To irritate someone a lot.

Drive you spare: To make you very annoyed.

Drop a bombshell: To announce something suddenly that shocks and stuns people.

Drop in the ocean: Something is very insignificant, like a drop in the ocean.

Drop into your lap: To receive something suddenly.

Drop someone a line: To send someone a letter.

Drop the ball: Something is not done right by someone and they let things go wrong.

Dropped like a hot cake: To reject or do away with something very quickly.

Dry as a bone: Very dry.

Dry run: A trial of something to see how it will work before it is launched.

Dry spell: An unsuccessful phase.

Duck to water: To take to something like a duck to water is to be naturally inclined towards it.

Ducks in a row: Very organised.

Dull as ditchwater: Very boring.

Dumb as a rock: To be very stupid.

Dutch auction: To reduce the price of something so much that someone finally buys it or to make changes in something until it is accepted by everyone.

Dutch treat: In a Dutch treat, everyone pays for their own share of the bill.

Dyed-in-the-wool: To be a stanch supporter of something or someone, without any questions.

Eager beaver: Someone who is very eager.

Eagle eyes: A very sharp person who sees and notices everything.

Easy as beans: Very easy.

Easy come, easy go: Things or money that come without much effort also tend to get used or consumed very easily too.

Eat crow: To have to admit that you were wrong about something.

Eat humble pie: To apologise and be regretful for doing something.

Eat like a bird: To eat very little.

Eat like a horse: To eat a lot.

Eat your words: To publicly accept that you were wrong about something you said.

Economical with the truth: To be economical with the truth is not to tell the whole truth about something by leaving out important details, but without actually lying.

Elbow room: To give elbow room is to give some space to someone.

End in smoke: When something ends in smoke, it means the outcome of something was fruitless.