boil
101boil something down — you have to boil down a lot of tomatoes to make just a few tablespoons of tomato paste Syn: condense, reduce, concentrate, distill, thicken, compress Ant: dilute …
102boil the ocean — v. phrase Clearly the least efficient way to produce a pile of salt. If a member of the corporate pantheon suggests you are trying to boil the ocean, he or she thinks you are doing something incredibly inefficiently. It s time to prepare your… …
103boil over — verb overflow or cause to overflow while boiling The milk is boiling over • Syn: ↑overboil • Hypernyms: ↑boil • Verb Frames: Something s …
104boil smut — noun a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass • Syn: ↑Ustilago maydis • Hypernyms: ↑cornsmut, ↑corn smut • Member Holonyms: ↑Ustilago, ↑genus Ustilago * …
105boil something down — CONDENSE, reduce, concentrate, thicken. → boil …
106boil the pot — phrasal 1. : to provide the means of living he works 10 hours a day to boil the pot for his family 2. : to turn out hackwork : produce potboilers a once gifted writer who now simply boils the pot …
107boil disease — noun Etymology: boil (I) : a disease of freshwater fish caused by a myxosporidian protozoan (Myxobolus pfeifferi) that invades connective tissue and muscles forming large tumorous masses and commonly causing the death of the host …
108boil out — transitive verb : to boil off …
109boil-over — /boyl oh veuhr/, n. Australian and New Zealand Slang. an unexpected result. [n. use of v. phrase boil over] …
110boil — 1) a mass of fish attacking food or bait just below the surface. Also called boiling school 2) fish, potatoes and onions boiled in salted water, usually at a picnic 3) an upward flow of water in a sandy formation resulting from a rise in a nearby …
