(British English) To take a long, indirect, and often unnecessary route or approach to something, either literally or figuratively. (Similar to 'beat around the bush').
📖 general
General idioms that span a wide range of everyday topics.
To become extremely angry, enraged, or lose one's temper suddenly.
To become wild, crazy, or extremely excited, often in a negative sense (lose control) or positive sense (very excited).
(Vulgar slang) To become extremely angry, irrational, or insane; to lose control.
To be available and unwanted; to remain unused or unclaimed due to a lack of interest.
To become uncontrollably wild, violent, or enraged.
To be lost, discarded, or abandoned; to fail.
To be known or referred to by a specific name.
To be abandoned, discarded, or fail to progress; to be neglected.
To be very well received or successful.
To fail spectacularly and disastrously.
To be poorly received or unsuccessful.