21-letter words containing d, i, b, e
- take sb at their word — If you take someone at their word, you believe what they say, when they did not really mean it or when they meant something slightly different.
- territoire de belfort — a department of E France, now in Franche-Comté region: the only part of Alsace remaining to France after 1871. Capital: Belfort. Pop: 139 383 (2003 est). Area: 608 sq km (237 sq miles)
- the yellow brick road — the road to success or happiness (in the film the Wizard of Oz the yellow brick road leads to Oz)
- think outside the box — to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc
- three-quarter binding — a binding in which the material used for the back extends further over the covers than in half binding.
- to be arrayed against — to be opposed to
- to be in dire straits — to be in a position of acute difficulty
- to be killed outright — If someone is killed outright, they die immediately, for example in an accident.
- to be mixed up in sth — if you are mixed up in something, usually something bad, you are involved in it
- to blow sth wide open — to expose something
- to feel obliged to do — to feel obligated to do
- to hit the bookstands — (of a book) to be published
- to put the wind up sb — If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
- to risk life and limb — If someone risks life and limb, they do something very dangerous that may cause them to die or be seriously injured.
- to rub shoulders with — If you rub shoulders with famous people, you meet them and talk to them. You can also say that you rub elbows with someone, especially in American English.
- undesirable discharge — a discharge under other than honorable conditions of a person from military service by administrative action.
- with one's bare hands — If someone does something with their bare hands, they do it without using any weapons or tools.