B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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Contents of B:
[box]
See:
[IN A BIND] or [IN A BOX],
[PENALTY BOX],
[PRESS BOX],
[STUFF THE BALLOT BOX],
[VOICE BOX].
[box office] {n.}, {informal}
1. The place at movies and theaters where tickets may be purchased just before the performance instead of having ordered them through the telephone or having bought them at a ticket agency.
* /No need to reserve the seats; […]
[boy]
See:
[ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY],
[FAIR-HAIRED BOY],
[MAMA'S BOY],
[OLD BOY],
[SEPARATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS].
[boyfriend] {n.}, {informal}
1. A male friend or companion.
"John and his boyfriends have gone to the ball game," said his mother.
2. A girl's steady date, a woman's favorite man friend; a male lover or sweetheart.
* /Jane's new boyfriend is a […]
[boys will be boys]
Boys are only children and must sometimes get into mischief or trouble or behave too roughly.
Boys will be boys and make a lot of noise, so John's mother told him and his friends to play in the park instead of the back yard.
[brain]
See:
[BEAT ONE'S BRAINS OUT],
[BLOW ONE'S BRAINS OUT],
[ON THE BRAIN],
[RACK ONE'S BRAIN],
[GET ONE'S BRAINS FRIED].
[brain bucket] {n.}, {slang}
A motorcycle helmet.
If you want to share a ride with me, you've got to wear a brain bucket.
[brain drain] {n.}, {informal}
1. The loss of the leading intellectuals and researchers of a country due to excessive emigration to other countries where conditions are better.
* /Britain suffered a considerable brain drain to the United States after […]
[brain trust] {n.}
A group of specially trained, highly intelligent experts in a given field.
Albert Einstein gathered a brain trust around himself at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies.
[brain-storm] {v.}
To have a discussion among fellow researchers or co-workers on a project in order to find the best solution to a given problem.
Dr. Watson and his research assistants are brain-storming in the conference room.