for someone
prepositional phrase2
Phrases with for someone
- good-for-nothingUseless; worthless.
- free-for-allChaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control.
- a Roland for an OliverSo as to respond to an action with an equivalent action; tit for tat.
- account forTo explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
- ache forTo desire or want something, or someone, very much.
- allow forTo take into account, consider.
- angle forTo try to obtain something by subtle indirect means: political manoeuvres, suggestion, etc.
- angle for farthingsTo beg out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
- answer forTo be held responsible for; to take the blame for something.
- any more for any moreDoes anybody have, or want, any more?
- ask forTo request; to order.
- ask for itTo provoke an unwanted action; to invite a problem or fail to prevent one.
- ask for the moonTo claim or desire something that one cannot have.
- asking for a friendIndicates that a question is embarrassing by pretending to be posing the question on behalf of another person.
- at a loss for wordsHaving nothing to say; not knowing what to say; stunned to the point of being speechless.
- bang for the buckEfficiency; cost-effectiveness; value.
- bargain forTo count on; to take into consideration.
- bat for the other teamTo be homosexual.
- be in forTo be able to expect or anticipate; to be about to suffer, generally said of something unpleasant.
- be no match forTo be outmatched by; to be much weaker, less capable, or less desirable than.