Phrases beginning with D phrases
Phrases beginning with D phrases
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Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch
Meaning: An old saying that means a person should not make plans based on assumptions because things may not turn out how they expect.
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Don’t Look a Gift Horse In The Mouth
Meaning: When you receive a gift from someone, do not be ungrateful.
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Down And Out
Meaning: A boxer who has been knocked out.
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Down For The Count
Meaning: Someone or something that looks to be defeated, or nearly so.
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Down To Earth
Meaning: Practical or humble; unpretentious.
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Down To The Wire
Meaning: A tense situation in a competition where things are evenly matched and the outcome is going to be decided only in the last few seconds.
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Drawing a Blank
Meaning: Failing to recall a memory; unable to remember something.
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Drive Me Nuts
Meaning: Someone who is greatly annoyed or frustrated. The word “nuts” is sometimes substituted with crazy, insane, bonkers, or bananas.
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Dropping Like Flies
Meaning: People who have fallen down ill or who have died in large numbers.
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Dark Horse
Meaning: Someone in a competition, either a team or an individual, that has the potential to win it all.
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Dead Air
Meaning: A time where nothing is going on and there is silence.
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Deer In Headlights
Meaning: If a person is described as being a “deer in headlights,” it means they saw something caused freeze up in fear or surprise.
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Dodge a Bullet
Meaning: To avoid a situation that would have been very troublesome to deal with.
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Doggy Bag
Meaning: After eating at a restaurant, if you have spare food that you want to take home with you, they give you what is called a “doggy bag” to put it in. Basically, it’s a small container.
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Done To Death
Meaning: If something, like a story, has been “done to death,” it’s been repeated so many times that it has become bland and boring.
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Don’t Hold Your Breath
Meaning: If someone uses the phrase “don’t hold your breath,” they mean the thing you’re hoping or expecting to happen probably won’t.
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Don’t Sweat It
Meaning: Another way of saying: “Don’t worry about it.”
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Double Take
Meaning: Noticing something so peculiar that you have to check it twice to make sure what you saw was real.
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Down In The Dumps
Meaning: Feeling sad or depressed; under the weather.
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Down The Drain
Meaning: Resources, such as money or time, that have gone to waste.
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Drop The Ball
Meaning: The phrase “drop the ball” means to make a mistake.