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Idioms beginning with "E"
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Contents of E:
[end run] {n.}
A football play in which a back tries to run around one end of the opponent's line.
Smith's end run scored the winning touchdown.
[end up] {v.}
1. To come to an end; be ended or finished; stop.
How does the story end up?
2. To finally reach or arrive; land.
I hope you don't end up in jail.
3. {informal}
To die, be killed.
* /The gangster ended up in the electric […]
[end zone] {n.}
Either of the marked areas behind the goal line.
He caught a pass in the end zone for a touchdown.
[engage in small talk] {v. phr.}
To converse with a stranger or casual acquaintance about matters of no great importance in order to make the time go faster.
* /The patients in the doctor's waiting room engaged in small talk complaining about the hot […]
[enjoy oneself] {v. phr.}
To have a good time; be happy; feel pleasure.
Mary enjoyed herself at the party.
"Enjoy yourselves, children," Mother urged the guests at our party.
[enlarge on] or [enlarge upon] or [expand on] or [expand upon] {v.}
To talk or write more about; say or explain more completely or at greater length.
The teacher enlarged on the uses of atomic power.
[en masse] {adv. phr.}
As a group; in one big mass or group. — Used after the word it modifies.
The school turned out en masse to cheer the returning astronaut.
[enough]
See:
[GIVE ONE ENOUGH ROPE, AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF],
[KNOW ENOUGH TO COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN],
[LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE],
[SURE ENOUGH].
[enough is enough]
That's enough, let's not have any more; that will do, let's cut it short; that's the limit, let's stop there.
"I don't mind good clean fun, but enough is enough," the principal said.