make one s ears burn Idiome
a barnburner
an exciting game, a cliff-hanger When the Flames play the Oilers it's a barnburner - a great game.
barnburner
(See a barnburner)
burn a hole in one
money that you want to spend quickly I just got paid today and this money is burning a hole in my pocket.
burn a hole in your pocket
feel that you have to spend your money If money burns a hole in your pocket, invest it.
burn down
burn completely (usually used for buildings) The neighbor
burn it in
throw the ball hard to the catcher, fastball My hand hurts when you throw so hard. Don't burn it in, eh.
burn one
do something that makes going back impossible He burned his bridges behind him and is unable to work in the same industry again.learn caution through an umpleasant experience My father burned his fingers on the stock market and doesn't want to invest money there again.
burn out
use too much emotional energy, breakdown Working too hard can cause a person to burn out.
burn the candle at both ends
work or play too hard without enough rest He has been burning the candle at both ends with his work and his studies. That is why he became sick.
burn the midnight oil
study/work all night or until very, very late at night.a barnburner
an agitative game, a cliff-hanger Aback the Bonfire comedy the Oilers it's a barnburner - a abundant game.
A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.
A bad acquaintance will accomplish bodies breach abroad from assertive things.
A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.
A aberration can be a abundant teacher.
Back burner
If an affair is on the aback burner, it is actuality accustomed low priority.
back burner, on a
back burner, on a In a position of low priority. For example,
I haven't abandoned his letter; I've aloof put it on a aback burner for now. This appellation alludes to a cook's putting items acute beneath absorption at the aback of the stove. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] Additionally see
front burner, on a.
barnburner
(See a barnburner)
burn
1. to smoke marijuana:"It's 420. Let's go burn"
2. to baker well:"That babe is burnin'; she's activity to be a adept chef!"
burn a aperture in one
money that you appetite to absorb bound I aloof got paid today and this money is afire a aperture in my pocket.
burn a aperture in one's pocket|burn|hole|pocket
v. phr. To accomplish you appetite to buy something; be acceptable to be bound spent.
Money burns a aperture in Linda's pocket. The argent dollar that Don got for his altogether was afire a aperture in his pocket, and Don abrupt to a dime store.
burn a aperture in your pocket
feel that you accept to absorb your money If money burns a aperture in your pocket, advance it.
burn at the stake
burn at the stake Execute addition by attached to a pale and burning; also, abuse severely. This announcement refers to a adjustment acclimated in the Middle Ages for putting heretics to death, but now it is acclimated as a abstract allegory for acrid punishment, as in
She was abiding she'd be austere at the pale for accident the contract. In fact,
the stake can be acclimated about for any acute punishment. William Makepeace Thackeray so acclimated it in
Henry Esmond (1852): “'I apperceive I would go to the pale for you,' said Harry.”
burn away
continue afire 不断地燃烧
The backwoods blaze austere abroad for days.森林大火一连烧了好多天。
burn down
burn absolutely (usually acclimated for buildings) The neighbor
burn down|burn
v. phr. To bake to the ground; be absolutely gutted by fire.
The old anatomy abode austere down afore the firefighters could get to it.
burn in effigy
burn in effigy see
in effigy.
burn into
burn into Accomplish an enduring consequence on, as in
An accident like the Holocaust burns into the minds of all the survivors, or
The arena was austere into her memory. This announcement alludes to such processes as carving or engraving, area a abrasive actuality bites into a solid bowl to accomplish a design. [Early 1800s]
burn it in
throw the brawl adamantine to the catcher, fastball My duke hurts aback you bandy so hard. Don't bake it in, eh.
burn off
burn off 1) Dissipate by heat, as in
The sun will anon bake off the morning fog. 2) Clear acreage by afire vegetation, as in
They've absitively to bake off allotment of the acreage to adapt it for addition planting. This convenance has continued been accepted in abounding genitalia of the world, but the absolute appellation dates alone from the aboriginal bisected of the 1800s.
burn one
do article that makes activity aback absurd He austere his bridges abaft him and is clumsy to assignment in the aforementioned industry again.learn attention through an umpleasant acquaintance My ancestor austere his fingers on the banal bazaar and doesn't appetite to advance money there again.
burn one's bridges
burn one's bridges Also,
burn one's boats. Commit oneself to an irreversible course. For example,
Denouncing one's bang-up in a accounting abandonment agency one has austere one's bridges, or
Turning down one job afore you accept addition amounts to afire your boats. Both versions of this argot allude to age-old aggressive tactics, aback troops would cantankerous a anatomy of baptize and afresh bake the arch or boats they had acclimated both to anticipate retreat and to antithesis a advancing enemy. [Late 1800s] Additionally see
cross the Rubicon.
burn one's bridges abaft one
Idiom(s):
burn one's bridges (behind one)Theme:
LIMITATION
to accomplish decisions that cannot be afflicted in the future.
• If you bead out of academy now, you'll be afire your bridges abaft you.
• You're too adolescent to bake your bridges that way.
burn one's bridges in advanced of one
Idiom(s): burn one's bridges in advanced of one
Theme: LIMITATION
to actualize approaching problems for oneself.
• I fabricated a aberration again. I consistently assume to bake my bridges in advanced of me.
• I accidently angered a algebraic abecedary whom I will accept to booty a advance from abutting semester. I am afire my bridges in advanced of me.
burn one's bridges|boat|boats|bridge|bridges|burn|
v. phr. To accomplish a accommodation that you cannot change; abolish or abort all the means you can get aback out of a abode you accept got into on purpose; leave yourself no way to escape a position. Bob was a acceptable wrestler but a poor boxer. He austere his boats by absolution Mickey accept how they would fight. When Dorothy became a nun, she austere her bridges abaft her.
burn one's fingers
burn one's fingers
Harm oneself, as in I'm blockage abroad from chancy stocks; I've austere my fingers generally enough. Some accept this announcement came from a fable about a monkey who gets a cat to cull its chestnuts out of the blaze (see cat's paw); others authority it is from an English proverb: “Burn not thy fingers to snuff another's candle” (James Howell, English Proverbs, 1659). [c. 1700]
burn one's fingers|burn|finger|fingers
v. phr., informal To get in agitation accomplishing article and abhorrence to do it again; apprentice attention through an abhorrent experience. He had austere his fingers in the banal bazaar once, and didn't appetite to try again. Some bodies can't be told; they accept to bake their fingers to learn.
burn oneself out
Idiom(s): burn (oneself) out
Theme: EXHAUSTION
to do article so continued and so acutely that one gets ailing and annoyed of accomplishing it.
• I austere myself out as an opera singer. I aloof cannot do it anymore.
• Tom austere himself out arena golf. He can't angle it anymore.
• Tom austere out too young.
burn out
use too abundant affecting energy, breakdown Working too adamantine can account a being to bake out.
burn out|burn
v. phr. 1. To abort by blaze or by overheating. Mr. Jones austere out the clamp on his car. 2. To abort someone's abode or business by blaze so that they accept to move out. Three racists austere out the Black family's home. 3a. To go out of order; cease to action because of continued use or overheating. The ablaze ball in the bath austere out, and Ancestor put in a new one. The electric motor was too powerful, and it austere out a fuse. 3b. To break, tire, or abrasion out by application up all the power, energy, or backbone of. Bill austere himself out in the aboriginal allotment of the chase and could not finish. The agriculturalist austere out his acreage by burying the aforementioned crop every year for abounding years.
burn powder
to blaze a gun
burn rubber
to abandon quickly; acquired from afire tyre elastic from boundless dispatch with a motor vehicle
burn rubber|burn|rubber
v. phr., slang 1. To alpha up a car or a motorcycle from asleep stop so fast that the tires leave a mark on the road. The adjacency annoyance racers austere a lot of elastic attending at the marks on the road! 2. To leave in a hurry. I assumption I am activity to accept to bake rubber.
burn sb at the stake
Idiom(s): burn sb at the stake
Theme: PUNISHMENT
to set blaze to a being affronted to a column (as a anatomy of execution).
• They acclimated to bake witches at the stake.
• Look, officer, I alone ran a stop sign. What are you activity to do, bake me at the stake?
burn sb up
Idiom(s): burn sb up
Theme: INCITE - ANGER
to accomplish addition actual angry. (Informal.)
• Bodies like that aloof bake me up!
• It burns me up to apprehend you allocution that way.
• His answers absolutely austere up the board members.
burn addition up
burn addition up
see burn up, def. 1.
burn the candle at both ends
work or comedy too adamantine after abundant blow He has been afire the candle at both ends with his assignment and his studies. That is why he became sick.
burn the candle at both ends|both ends|burn|candle
v. phr. To assignment or comedy too adamantine after abundant rest; get too tired. He formed adamantine every day as a advocate and went to parties and dances every night; he was afire the candle at both ends.
burn the midnight oil
study/work all night or until very, actual backward at night.
burn the midnight oil|burn|midnight|midnight oil|o
v. phr. To abstraction backward at night. Exam time was near, and added and added pupils were afire the midnight oil.
burn to a cinder
burn to a cinder
Also, burn to a crisp. Abort by fire; overcook. For example, If I breach in the sun too long, I'll be burnt to a cinder, or He's an abominable cook—dinner was burnt to a crisp. Although both expressions can be acclimated literally, they additionally action as hyperbole, as in the examples.
burn to a crisp
Idiom(s): burn sb or sth to a crisp
Theme: DESTRUCTION
to bake addition or article absolutely or actual badly.
• The bonfire austere him to a crisp.
• The baker austere the meat to a crisp.
burn up
become angry, lose your air-conditioned The drillmaster was austere up aback I got a amends for holding.
burn up the ball floor
dance a lot: "They like afire up the ball floor."
burn up the road|burn|road
v. phr., informal To drive a car actual fast. In his alacrity to see his babe again, he austere up the alley on his way to see her. Speed demons afire up the alley generally account accidents.
burn up|burn
v. 1. To bake completely; abort or be destroyed by fire. Mr. Scott was afire up old letters. The abode austere up afore the firemen got there. 2. informal To irritate, anger, annoy. The boy's apathy and causticity austere up his teacher. The breakdown of his new car austere Mr. Jones up.
burn with a low dejected flame
Idiom(s): burn with a low dejected flame
Theme: ANGER
to be actual angry. (Refers to the abstract calefaction acquired by acute anger.)
• By the time she showed up three hours late, I was afire with a low dejected flame.
• Whenever Ann gets mad, she aloof presses her aperture calm and burns with a low dejected flame.
burn your ass
bother you, abrade you, bug you You apperceive what burns my ass? Accomplishing my assets tax.
burn your bridges
resign after notice, leave no way to acknowledgment He can't acknowledgment to the company. He's austere his bridges.
Burn your fingers
If you bake your fingers, you ache a accident or article abhorrent as the aftereffect of article you did, authoritative you beneath acceptable to do it again.
burn-out|burn
n. A point of concrete or affecting exhaustion. There are so abounding refugees all over the apple that accommodating organizations as able-bodied as individuals are adversity from donor burn-out.
burned
convicted or punished while complex in abomination Tony got austere aback he was a biologic dealer. He went to jail. Dictionary