phrase thesaurus

A list of phrases containing the word "someone"...


  • Beat someone black and blue
  • Big fish in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
  • Bite someone's head off
  • Bleed someone dry
  • Bleed someone white
  • Blow someone away
  • Bonus genius ( a good spirit accompanying and supporting someone )
  • Bore the pants off someone
  • Bump into someone
  • Bust someone's ass
  • Buttonhole someone
  • Chew someone's ass
  • Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
  • Cut someone dead
  • Cut someone down in their prime
  • Cut someone down to size
  • Dance on someone's grave
  • Dance to someone's tune
  • Dead white European male ( derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation )
  • Draw someone's fire
  • Drive someone into a corner
  • Drop someone off
  • Dump on someone
  • Eat out of someone's hand
  • Eat someone alive
  • Eye someone up and down
  • Feel someone up
  • Feel someone's collar
  • Flip someone the bird
  • Freeze someone out
  • Get into someone's pants
  • Get no change out of someone
  • Give someone a bell
  • Give someone a bloody nose
  • Give someone a boost
  • Give someone a good talking to
  • Give someone a rocket
  • Give someone a thick ear
  • Give someone a wide berth
  • Give someone an earful
  • Give someone hell
  • Give someone skin
  • Give someone the boot
  • Give someone the brush-off
  • Give someone the mushroom treatment
  • Give someone the slip
  • Give someone the willys
  • Give someone what for
  • Grass someone up
  • Have someone on toast
  • Have someone's ear
  • Heap coals of fire on someone's head
  • Hear someone out
  • High roller ( someone who gambles for high stakes )
  • Hit the bricks ( a cursory slang term telling someone to leave )
  • If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list ( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
  • In someone's bad books ( the meaning and origin of this phrase... )
  • Invite someone over
  • Jog someone's elbow
  • Jump someone's bones
  • Keep someone sweet
  • Know someone in the biblical sense
  • Lay a trip on someone
  • Lead someone to the altar
  • Leave someone cold
  • Lick someone's boots
  • Look someone up and down
  • Make someone happy with a phone call ( British Telecom advertising slogan )
  • Make someone's toes curl
  • My one regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
  • Out for someone's blood
  • Pop someone's cherry
  • Pull someone up short
  • Pull the wool over someone's eyes
  • Push someone's buttons
  • Put someone down
  • Put the bite on someone
  • Put the fear of God into someone
  • Put the fear of death into someone
  • Put words into someone's mouth
  • Reach out and touch someone ( American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan )
  • Rob someone blind
  • Rub someone's nose in it
  • See the back of someone
  • Sell someone a dummy
  • Shoot someone a line
  • Sing someone's praises
  • Sit on someone's tail
  • Snap someone's head off
  • Someone Like You ( Adele song )
  • Someone ears are burning
  • Someone walked on my grave
  • Steal someone's heart
  • Steal someone's thunder
  • String someone along
  • Suck someone dry
  • Take cuts at someone ( A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation )
  • Take someone out
  • Take someone to law
  • Take someone to one side
  • Take someone to task
  • Take someone to the woodshed
  • Take the bread out of someone's mouth
  • Teach someone a lesson
  • Teach someone a thing or two
  • Tell someone where to get off
  • The empty chair ( the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased )
  • Throw the book at someone
  • Tip someone off
  • Tip someone the wink
  • Toy with someone's affections
  • Treat someone like dirt
  • Trifle with someone's affections
  • Walk all over someone
  • Walk someone off their feet
  • War baby ( someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier )
  • War criminal ( someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention )
  • War hero ( someone who acted heroically during a war )
  • Wind someone up ( deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation )

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