Phrase thesaurus
Grind Phrases
72 phrases and expressions related to "grind".
Phrases
- As solid as the ground we walk on
- Axe to grind
- Beast of burden
- Bow and scrape
- Break new ground
- Built from the ground up
- Bump and grind
- Burden of proof
- Common ground
- Cut the ground from under your feet
- Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
- Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
- Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
- Don't let the bastards grind you down
- Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
- Down to the ground
- Fall on stony ground
- Gain ground
- Get in on the ground floor
- Get into a scrape
- Get off the ground
- Go to ground
- Grate on the ear
- Grind to a halt
- Ground Hog Day (Nickname of basketball player Tim Duncan)
- Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
- Ground zero
- Happy hunting ground
- Hasn't got two cents to rub together
- Hit the ground running
- I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
- I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
- In on the ground floor
- Indian file
- Keep your ear to the ground
- Keep your feet on the ground
- Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
- Keep your nose to the grindstone
- Lose ground on
- Neutral ground
- Not two pennies to rub together
- On dangerous ground
- Political high ground
- Prepare the ground
- Rank and file
- Raze to the ground
- Rub a dub (Cockney rhyming slang for pub)
- Rub a dub dub men in a tub
- Rub along with
- Rub it in
- Rub of the green
- Rub out
- Rub salt in the wound
- Rub shoulders with
- Rub someone's nose in it
- Rub up the wrong way
- Rub your nose in it
- Run to ground
- Scrape a living
- Shoulder to the grindstone
- Single file
- Slog away
- So fast your feet won't touch the ground
- Stamping ground
- Suits you down to the ground
- Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
- The moral high ground
- Thin on the ground
- To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
- White man's burden
- Work yourself into the ground
- You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground