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born with a silver spoon in one's mouthNote. The original nautical expression is just born with a silver spoon and describes those young gentlemen who were able to enter the Royal Navy without examination and whose promotion was assured. the converse was born with a wooden ladle.Rate it:
Born With a Silver Spoon in Your MouthBorn in a family or environment that is rich, comfortable and luxuriantRate it:
born yesterdayNew, naive, innocent, inexperienced or easily deceived.Rate it:
Born YesterdayOne who is immature and not experienced, one who does not know a lot of tricks or statements that people use to fool othersRate it:
borne outPast participle of bear out.Rate it:
borne outSubstantiated.Rate it:
borrowed timeA period of time whose precise duration is not known but which can be expected to be quite limited, and at the end of which one's situation, benefits, or opportunities will be entirely terminated.Rate it:
boss aboutTo act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior.Rate it:
boss aroundTo act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior.Rate it:
bossy boots or bossybootsSomeone that bosses others. Someone that is very bossy. A person who often tells other people what to doRate it:
botch upTo ruin, mess up.Rate it:
bottle awayto store up or stock up.Rate it:
Bottle of DogNewcastle Brown AleRate it:
bottle outTo fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage.Rate it:
bottle upPut into bottles.Rate it:
bottle upKeep suppressed and hidden.Rate it:
bottom bitchA particularly submissive sex partner, especially a gay maleRate it:
bottom bitchThe most successful and alpha female (or beta male) in a prostitution ringRate it:
bottom edgeUsed other than as an idiom: see bottom, edge.Rate it:
bottom edgeThe edge of a bat closest to the ground.Rate it:
bottom edgeA deflection of a ball off of the bottom edge of a bat, onto the ground and potentially into the wicket.Rate it:
bottom edgeTo hit the ball with the bottom edge of the bat.Rate it:
bottom falls outSaid about a collapseRate it:
bottom feederA fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish.Rate it:
bottom feederA person who operates amidst or thrives on the unwholesome things in a society; one who takes advantage of the misfortune of others.Rate it:
bottom fishingFishing with bait, lines, and other gear used to catch aquatic creatures which inhabit the lowest regions of a body of water, including a seabed or riverbed.Rate it:
bottom fishingBuying, or seeking opportunities to buy, investment securities or other valuable properties at a time when markets are depressed and prices are low.Rate it:
bottom handUsed other than as an idiom: see bottom, hand.Rate it:
bottom handWith a standard batting grip, the hand placed further down the handle of the bat; the batsman's dominant hand, providing most power to a shot.Rate it:
bottom lineThe final balance; the amount of money or profit left after everything has been tallied.Rate it:
bottom lineThe summary or result; the most important information; the upshot; the net-net.Rate it:
Bottom LineThe end results, hard fact or the ultimate deduction of any event, cause, argument or situationRate it:
bottom of the lineThe worst, the most lackluster, or lowest quality currently on the market, especially among selections in a product line.Rate it:
bottom of the ninthBy extension, any last chance or final opportunity.Rate it:
bottom of the ninthIn baseball, the second part of the ninth and final inning. The end of the game.Rate it:
bottom outTo reach the bottom, to reach the nadir or low point.Rate it:
bottom outTo touch or drag along the ground.Rate it:
bottom the houseTo clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughlyRate it:
bottoming the houseThe process by where someone cleans their house 'from top to bottom'. It is a very thorough clean indeed, even more so than 'spring cleaning'.Rate it:
bottomless pitA person who can keep eating without ever seeming to fill up, or a vessel which never fills however much is added.Rate it:
bottoms updrinking toastRate it:
bought the farmSimple past tense and past participle of buy the farm: died; often refers to death in battle.Rate it:
bought the farmA fatality in private aviation for any number of Airframe and Engine {A&E} failures, pilot error or weather related problems.Rate it:
bounce backTo recover from a negative without seemingly any damage.Rate it:
bounce offto test (ideas) on someoneRate it:
bounce off the wallsTo be overly active relative to the enclosed space in which one is.Rate it:
bouncing off the wallsMoving hyperactively.Rate it:
bound toIndicates something which cannot be avoided.Rate it:
bow and scrapeTo make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside.Rate it:
bow and scrapeTo behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner.Rate it:

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