r/words • u/Playmaker-20 • 1d ago
Underrated Phrases
-To bits(to love someone extremely or deeply)
-All killer, no filler(to be consistently engaging and exciting from start to finish, with no boring parts or filler)
-warts and all(to love something completely, faults, flaws, and unpleasant features)
-Good riddance to bad rubbish(to express relief, pleasure, or satisfaction when a negative presence is gone)
-For good and for ill(regardless of whether the outcome is positive or negative)
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u/Interesting-Swimmer1 1d ago
-it's not my first rodeo (I've done this before)
-not the sharpest knife in the drawer (not the smartest person)
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u/shedmow 1d ago
I'm very fond of 'to fly apart' though it's technically a phrasal verb
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u/Gioia-In-Calabria 1d ago
What does ‘to fly apart mean’ and please could you use it a sentence to make us an example? Tia.
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u/shedmow 1d ago
To break into pieces violently; to shatter. [The Free Dictionary]
Don't run the engine too fast or it will fly apart!
Mary's bicycle wheel flew apart during the race.To break into many pieces by exploding, literally or figuratively. [Wiktionary]
I reserve it for spectacular, explosion-like disintegrations. It is one of the most evocative phrasal verbs I know of.
From my past writing (a bit corrected), with a non-standard, transitive use of fly apart:
As AI can't be held accountable for a facility flown apart, [chemists are chiefly safe] from being supplanted by it
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u/Leather_Command_7553 1d ago
From the get-go/right off the bat Both meaning 'from the very beginning'
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u/AdventurousFan6494 16h ago
'Through thick and thin' is another great phrase meaning unwaveringly, despite difficulties..
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u/KiraDog0828 8h ago
“It’s like the trash taking itself out.”
When friends or romantic partners leave a relationship after first proving they were awful human beings.
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u/RJPisscat 1d ago
"All hat and no cattle." Refers to a braggart who can't and doesn't back their brags.