H
Idioms beginning with "H"
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Contents of H:
[hunt down] {v.}
1. To pursue and capture; look hard for an animal or person until found and caught.
The police hunted down the escaped prisoner.
Compare: [TRACK DOWN].
2. To search for (something) until one finds it.
* /Professor Jones hunted […]
[hunt up] {v.}
To find or locate by search.
When John was in Chicago, he hunted up some old friends.
The first thing Fred had to do was to hunt up a hotel room.
[hurry on with] or [make haste with] {v. phr.}
To make rapid progress in an undertaking.
Sue promised to hurry on with the report and send it out today.
[hurry up] {v. phr.}
To rush (an emphatic form of hurry).
Hurry up or we'll miss our plane.
[hush-hush] {adj.}, {informal}
Kept secret or hidden; kept from public knowledge; hushed up; concealed.
The company had a new automobile engine that it was developing, but kept it a hush-hush project until they knew it was successful.
[hush up] {v.}
1. To keep news of (something) from getting out; prevent people from knowing about.
It isn't always easy to hush up a scandal.
2. {informal}
To be or make quiet; stop talking, crying, or making some other noise. — Often used as a […]