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Terms for subject Figurative (93 entries)

mow down	to kill or slaughter, or to injure by knocking down, especially in large numbers and in a ruthless manner
murder	skin alive	Andrey­ Truhac­hev
not within cooee	a long way away
obfuscate	to deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth
writ large	on a larger scale or in a more prominent manner
third base	oral sex	Andrey­ Truhac­hev
rusty	out of practice	Andrey­ Truhac­hev
parsley-bed	In English nursery tradition: a parsley-bed as the pretended place where (especially girl) babies come from. Hence in extended use: the uterus
parsley-bed	the female genitals
play second fiddle	to play a supporting or minor role in relation to someone else
play second fiddle	to be in a supporting or subservient role to someone else
play second fiddle	to have a subordinate, lesser, or smaller role, position, or part
play second fiddle	to be in a subordinate position to someone
play second fiddle	assume a subsidiary role to someone
play second fiddle	have a lower or less important position than another person
play second fiddle	if someone or something plays second fiddle to someone or something else, they are less important than them
play second fiddle	to have to accept that you are less important than someone else
play second fiddle to	assume a subsidiary role to someone
a stroke of policy	policy stroke	Andrey­ Truhac­hev
punch in	if you punch in a number on a machine or punch numbers into it, you push the machine's buttons or keys in order to give it a command to do something