pick

rake-off

See: KICKBACK.

No categories:

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

'rake-off' on video

Subscribe to: American Idioms

English Slang

✉

Get site updates @:

See as well

rake up

[rake up] {v. phr.} To expose; gather; bring to light. * /Let's forget about the past; there's no need to rake up all those old memories./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

rake off

[rake off] {v. phr.} To illegally expropriate part of a sum paid. * /The secretary-treasurer of the association has been caught raking off some of the membership dues./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

rake in

[rake in] {v. phr.} To realize great profits; take in money. * /Because of the heavy snowfall, ski lodge operators in the Rocky Mountains have been raking in the dough […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

kickback

[kickback] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} Money paid illegally for favorable treatment. * /He was arrested for making kickback payments./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Slang is

"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

An idiom is

an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

Recent updates:

let sleeping dogs lie

[let sleeping dogs lie] Do not make (someone) angry and cause trouble or danger; do not make trouble if you do not have to. - […]

Mark Twain

(1835-1910) What a man misses most in heaven is company.

Idioms to Learn Today

Learn/refresh your knowledge against this set!Then check yourself by running flashcard test by definitions or by descriptions.

make or break

[make or break] {v. phr.} To bring complete success or failure, victory or defeat. * /Playing the role of Hamlet will make […]

point up

[point up] {v.} To show clearly; emphasize. * /The increase in crime points up the need for greater police protection./ * […]

Chinese proverb

Of ten bald men, nine are deceitful and the tenth is stupid.

24 English Accents

Listen how it sounds in: British - Southern English - East - London - Cockney. British (Jamaican influenced) - Southern […]

pig's ear

[pig's ear] {n.} 1. Beer (Cockney rhyming slang). 2. Something that has been badly done or has been made a mess of.