23-letter words containing ome
- snap someone's head off — to cut, wound, or tear with the teeth: She bit the apple greedily. The lion bit his trainer.
- someone's night to howl — someone's time for unrestrained pleasure
- steal someone's thunder — to strike, drive, inflict, give forth, etc., with loud noise or violent action.
- stick to someone's ribs — to be nourishing and satisfying
- talk someone's head off — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- till the cows come home — the mature female of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos.
- to blow someone's cover — To blow someone's cover means to cause their true identity or the true nature of their work to be revealed.
- to call someone's bluff — If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
- to clap eyes on someone — To clap eyes on someone or something, or set or lay eyes on them, means to see them.
- to clip someone's wings — If you say that something or someone clips your wings, you mean that they restrict your freedom to do what you want.
- to come off second best — to be defeated
- to come to a sticky end — If someone comes to a sticky end or meets a sticky end, they suffer very badly or die in an unpleasant way.
- to force someone's hand — If you force someone's hand, you force them to act sooner than they want to, or to act in public when they would prefer to keep their actions secret.
- to keep someone company — If you keep someone company, you spend time with them and stop them feeling lonely or bored.
- to meet someone halfway — If you meet someone halfway, you accept some of the points they are making so that you can come to an agreement with them.
- to outstay your welcome — If you say that someone outstays their welcome or overstays their welcome, you mean that they stay somewhere longer than they are wanted or expected to.
- to run someone to earth — If you run someone or something to earth, you find them after searching for them for a long time.
- to save someone's bacon — If someone or something saves your bacon, they get you out of a dangerous or difficult situation.
- to send someone packing — If you send someone packing, you make them go away.
- to shake someone's hand — If you shake someone's hand or shake someone by the hand, you shake hands with them.
- tread on someone's toes — the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
- treat someone like dirt — If you say that someone treats you like dirt, you are angry with them because you think that they treat you unfairly and with no respect.
- what makes someone tick — the basic drive or motivation of a person
- when it comes (down) to — You can use the expression when it comes to or when it comes down to in order to introduce a new topic or a new aspect of a topic that you are talking about.
- whet someone's appetite — If someone or something whets your appetite for a particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.
- you can't go home again — a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.