B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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[bump off] {v.}, {slang}
To kill in a violent way; murder in gangster fashion.
Hoodlums in a speeding car bumped him off with Tommy guns.
[bum's rush] {n. phr.}, {slang}
Throwing or pushing someone out from where he is not wanted.
When John tried to go to the party where he was not invited, Bill and Fred gave him the bum's rush.
Tom became too noisy, and he got the bum's rush.
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[bum steer] {n.}
Wrong or misleading directions given naively or on purpose.
Man, you sure gave me a bum steer when you told me to go north on the highway; you should have sent me south!
[bundle of laughs] {n. phr.}
A very amusing person, thing, or event.
Uncle Lester tells so many jokes that he is a bundle of laughs.
[burn a hole in one's pocket] {v. phr.}
To make you want to buy something; be likely to be quickly spent.
Money burns a hole in Linda's pocket.
* /The silver dollar that Don got for his birthday was burning a hole in his pocket, and Don hurried to […]
[burn down] {v. phr.}
To burn to the ground; be totally gutted by fire.
The old frame house burned down before the firefighters could get to it.
[burn one's bridges] also [burn one's boats] {v. phr.}
To make a decision that you cannot change; remove or destroy all the ways you can get back out of a place you have got into on purpose; leave yourself no way to escape a position.
* /Bob was a good […]