Phrases beginning with C phrases

Calm Before The Storm

Meaning: A peaceful period of time that comes before a more difficult and/or more busy period.

Check, Please!

Meaning: Being in an uncomfortable situation that one wants to leave.

Clickbait

Meaning: A title or thumbnail that is clickbait is one that is sensational, exaggerated, or misleading for the purpose of attracting clicks.

Close But No Cigar

Meaning: Coming close to a successful outcome only to fall short at the end.

Cold Turkey

Meaning: Quitting a bad habit suddenly.

Crocodile Tears

Meaning: To express sorrow in an insincere way.

Cry Over Spilled Milk

Meaning: It’s useless to worry about things that have already happened and cannot be changed.

Cry Wolf

Meaning: Someone who is lying.

Cup Of Joe

Meaning: A ‘cup of joe’ is an American nickname for a cup of coffee.

Curiosity Killed The Cat

Meaning: Typically said to indicate that any further investigation into a situation may lead to harm.

Cut The Mustard

Meaning: To cut the mustard is to meet a required standard; to meet expectations.

Cut To The Chase

Meaning: Getting directly to the point, leaving out all of the unnecessary details.

Cat Got Your Tongue

Meaning: Having nothing to say; speechless.

Caught Red Handed

Meaning: Caught in the act of doing something that you weren’t supposed to be doing.

Change of Heart

Meaning: If you’ve had a “change of heart” about something, your thoughts on it have become different.

Chip Off The Old Block

Meaning: A person who resembles their parents.

Clean Slate

Meaning: Getting a fresh start, without the problems that came before.

Clean Sweep

Meaning: If one team “clean sweeps” another team, it means they won soundly against them.

Cold Feet

Meaning: Nervous or hesitant about doing something.

Cold Shoulder

Meaning: If someone gives you the “cold shoulder,” they are intentionally ignoring you.

Come Clean

Meaning: To tell the truth, admitting something.

Cool As a Cucumber

Meaning: Not agitated; calm.

Couch Potato

Meaning: Someone who is lazy.

Cross That Bridge When We Get There

Meaning: Dealing with a problem once it arises.

Curve Ball

Meaning: When something unexpected happens.