B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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Contents of B:
[boot]
See:
[DIE IN ONE'S BOOTS],
[IN ONE'S SHOES] also [IN ONE'S BOOTS],
[LICK ONE'S BOOTS],
[SHAKE IN ONE'S SHOES] or [SHAKE IN ONE'S BOOTS],
[TO BOOT],
[TOO BIG FOR ONE'S BREECHES] or [TOO BIG FOR ONE'S BOOTS],
[YOU BET] or [YOU BET YOUR BOOTS].
[boot hill] {n.}
A cemetery in the old Wild West where cowboys and cops and robbers used to be buried with their boots on. Hence, jokingly, any cemetery.
Good old Joe, the cowboy, is resting comfortably in the nearby boot hill.
[border on] {v. phr.}
To be adjacent to; come close to; adjoin.
Our village borders on the Mississippi River.
John's actions border on irresponsibility.
[bore to tears] {v. phr.}
To fill with tired dislike; tire by dullness or the same old thing bore.
The party was dull and Roger showed plainly that he was bored to tears.
Mary loved cooking, but sewing bores her to tears.
[born out of wedlock] {adj. phr.}
Born to parents who are not married to each other; without legal parents.
Sometimes when a married couple can't have children, they adopt a child who was born out of wedlock.
* /Today we no longer make fun of […]
[born with a silver spoon in one's mouth] {adj. phr.}
Born to wealth and comfort; provided from birth with everything wanted; born rich.
The stranger's conduct was that of a man who had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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