Come-to-a-screeching-halt
come to a screeching halt
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- Bring--to--bear
to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof. to hold or remain firm under (a load): The roof will not bear the strain of his weight. to bring forth (young); give birth to: to bear a child. to produce by natural growth: a tree that bears fruit. to hold up under; be […]
- Bring-to-life
Enliven or energize a person or thing. For example, The promise of a big part in the play brought Jane to life, or The author’s changes really brought this screenplay to life. [ c. 1300 ] Also see: come to life
- Bring--to--light
something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light. Physics. Also called luminous energy, radiant energy. electromagnetic radiation to which the organs of sight react, ranging in wavelength from about 400 to 700 nm and propagated at a speed of 186,282 mi./sec (299,972 km/sec), considered variously as a wave, corpuscular, or […]
- Bring-to-mind
Cause to be remembered, as in The film brought to mind the first time I ever climbed a mountain . This idiom, first recorded in 1433, appears in Robert Burns’s familiar “Auld Lang Syne” (1788), in which the poet asks if old times should never be brought to mind . Also see come to mind
- Bring-to-one-s-knees
Make one submit; reduce to a position of subservience. For example, Solitary confinement usually brings prisoners to their knees. This particular phrase dates only from the late 1800s, although there were earlier versions alluding to being on one’s knees as a gesture of submission.