D
Idioms beginning with "D"
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[double nickel] {adv.}, {slang}, {citizen's band radio jargon}
The nationally enforced speed limit on some highways — 55 MPH.
We'd better go double nickel on this stretch, partner; there's a bear in the air.
[double up] {v.}
1. To bend far over forward.
Jim was hit by the baseball and doubled up with pain.
2. To share a room, bed, or home with another.
When relatives came for a visit, Ann had to double up with her sister.
[double-check] {v.}
1. To do a double check on; look at again very carefully.
When the last typing of his book was finished, the author double-checked it.
2. To make a double check; look carefully at something.
* /The proofreader double-checks […]
[double-cross] {v.}
To promise one thing and deliver another; to deceive.
The lawyer double-crossed the inventor by manufacturing the gadget instead of fulfilling his promise to arrange a patent for his client.
Compare: [SELL DOWN THE RIVER], […]
[double-date] {v.}, {informal}
To go on a double date; date with another couple.
John and Nancy and Mary and Bill double-date.
[double-header] {n.}
Two games or contests played one right after the other, between the same two teams or two different pairs of teams.
The Yankees and the Dodgers played a double-header Sunday afternoon.
* /We went to a basketball double-header […]
[double-park] {v.}
To park a car beside another car which is at the curb.
Jimmy's father double-parked his car and the police gave him a ticket.
If you double-park, you block other cars from passing.
[double-talk] {n.}
1. Something said that is worded, either on purpose or by accident, so that it may be understood in two or more different ways.
The politician avoided the question with double-talk.
2. Something said that does not make sense; […]
[down and out] {adj. phr.}
Without money; without a job or home; broke.
Poor Sam lost his job after his wife had left him; he is really down and out.