B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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Contents of B:
[believe one's ears] {v. phr.}
1. To believe what one hears; trust one's hearing. — Used with a negative or limiter, or in an interrogative or conditional sentence.
* /He thought he heard a horn blowing in the distance, but he could not believe his […]
[believe one's eyes] {v. phr.}
1. To believe what one sees; trust one's eyesight. — Used with a negative or limiter or in an interrogative or conditional sentence.
Is that a plane? Can I believe my eyes?
2. To be made sure of seeing something.
* […]
[belly up] {adj.}, {informal}
Dead, bankrupt, or financially ruined.
Tom and Dick struggled on for months with their tiny computer shop, but last year they went belly up.
[belly up] {v.}, {informal}
To go bankrupt, become afunctional; to die.
Uncompetitive small businesses must eventually all belly up.
[bellyache] {v.}
To constantly complain.
Jim is always bellyaching about the amount of work he is required to do.
[below par] {adj.} or {adv.}
Below standard.
Bob was fired because his work has been below par for several months now.
Contrast: [UP TO PAR] or [UP TO SNUFF].
[below the belt] {adv. phr.}
1. In the stomach; lower than is legal in boxing.
He struck the other boy below the belt.
2. {informal}
In an unfair or cowardly way; against the rules of sportsmanship or justice; unsportingly; wrongly.
* /It was […]
[belt out] {v.}, {slang}
To sing with rough rhythm and strength; shout out.
She belted out ballads and hillbilly songs one after another all evening.
Young people enjoy belting out songs.