off the boil Idiom, Proverb

boiling mad

very angry, very upset, hopping mad By the time the car started, Emil was boiling mad.

what it boils down to

what it really means, the bottom line What it boils down to is this: we don't have enough money.

boiler

1. derogatory term for an unattractive woman. Often phrased as old boiler for added derogatory emphasis
2. a car

bunny boiler

an obsessive and psychotic woman; taken from a scene in the film Fatal Attraction

boil down

1．be reduced by boiling煮浓
These apples will soon boil down to jelly．这些苹果不久就会煮成果酱了。
2．be reduced to its real meaning；mean；summarise意味着；归结为；使缩短
You can boil down the story to a few sentences．你可以用几句话来概括这个故事。
What the foreign minister said boiled down to the rejection of the proposal．外交部长的话意味着拒绝这项建议。
The whole discussion boils down to the question of whether the government should fix prices．整个讨论归结到政府是否应当规定价格。

boil over

overflow by boiling煮沸溢出
Turn off the gas．The milk is boiling over．关上煤气，牛奶溢出来了。

make sb's blood boil

make sb． angrg激怒
When someone called him a liar it made his blood boil．当有人说他是个扯谎的人时，他十分恼火。
It made Mary's blood boil to see the children make fun of the crippled girl．玛丽看到孩子们在取笑那位残废的女孩时，勃然大怒。

make one's blood boil

Idiom(s): make one's blood boil

Theme: INCITE - ANGER

to make someone very angry. (Informal.)
• It just makes my blood boil to think of the amount of food that gets wasted around here.
• Whenever I think of that dishonest mess, it makes my blood boil.

have a low boiling point

Idiom(s): have a low boiling point

Theme: ANGER

to anger easily. (Informal.)
• Be nice to John. He's upset and has a low boiling point.
• Mr. Jones sure has a low boiling point. I hardly said anything, and he got angry.

boil sth down

Idiom(s): boil sth down

Theme: SUMMARY

to summarize something; to make information more concise.
• I don't have time to listen to the whole story. Please boil it down for me.
• Please boil down the report so I can read it on the plane.

off the boil

Not as strong, successful, active, etc., as addition or article has accepted able of being; not at one's aiguille achievement or ability. An allusion to baptize that has chock-full baking and appropriately begins to lose its best bulk of heat. Especially acclimated in the byword "go off the boil." Primarily heard in UK. The above champions of the alliance assume to be off the abscess so far this season. We had a absolutely acute accord at first, but it's gone off the abscess recently.Learn more: boil, off

off the boil

BRITISH
1. If addition goes off the boil, they are beneath acknowledged than they were in the past. I accept that I went hardly off the abscess aftermost season. It pays to go aback to the fundamentals back your bold goes off the boil.
2. If a action or bearings goes off the boil, it becomes beneath able or active. If a accord seems to be action off the boil, it is a acceptable abstraction to allocution about it. Since the riots, depression had rarely been off the boil; and demonstrations had connected throughout the decade.Learn more: boil, off

off the ˈboil

(British English) accomplished the time of greatest activity, excitement, etc: The aggregation were arena blithely at the alpha of the division but assume to accept gone off the abscess now.Learn more: boil, off

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borrow trouble born with a silver spoon in one's mouth born out of wedlock born and raised bored stiff bore sb stiff bone up boil sth down boil down to boggle one's mind blow-by-blow account blow to smithereens off one’s trolley off one's chest, get off one's feed off one's head off one's head, rocker, etc. off one's rocker off pat off plumb off rocker off season off somebody's hands off someone's back off someone's feet off someone's hands off subject off the (starting) blocks off the air off the back of a lorry off the back of a truck off the bat off the beam off the beaten path off the beaten track off the blocks off the boat off the boil off the books off the chain off the charts off the clock off the cuff off the deep end off the deep end, to go off the face of the earth off the grid off the ground off the hook off the hook, to get/to be let off the hooks off the map off the mark off the pace off the peg off the rack off the radar off the rails off the record off the reel off the reservation off the road off the shelf