crash Idioma

a crash course

a short course that has the main facts and skills He took a crash course in cooking and bought a cafe.

crash

go to bed, go to sleep Sometimes Don crashes on our sofa and sleeps for hours.

crash a party

go to a party uninvited, horn in Bo and his friends crashed our party. They came uninvited.

crash course

(See a crash course)

crash out

to pass out due to intoxication or tiredness

crash and burn

Idiom(s): crash and burn

Theme: EXTRAVAGANCE

to fail spectacularly. (Also literal, as with a car or a plane. Fixed order.)
• Poor Chuck really crashed and burned when he made his presentation at the sales meeting.
• Mary just knew that the whole project would crash and burn if she didn't keep a close watch on it.

bring sth crashing down around one

Idiom(s): bring sth crashing down (around one)

Theme: RUIN

to destroy something that one has built; to destroy something that one has a special interest in.
• She brought her whole life crashing down around her.
• Bob's low grade in English brought everything crashing down.

crash dive(1)|crash|crash dive|dive

n. A sudden dive made by a submarine to escape an enemy; a dive made to get deep under water as quickly as possible. The captain of the submarine told his crew to prepare for a crash dive when he saw the enemy battleship approaching.

crash the gate|crash|crasher|gate|gate crasher

v. phr., slang To enter without a ticket or without paying; attend without an invitation or permission. Bob got into the circus without paying. He crashed the gate. Three boys tried to crash the gate at our party but we didn't let them in.

crash-dive(2)|crash|crash dive|dive

v. 1. To dive deep underwater in a submarine as quickly as possible. We shall crash-dive if we see enemy planes coming. 2. To dive into (something) in an airplane. When the plane's motor was hit by the guns of the enemy battleship, the pilot aimed the plane at the ship and crash-dived into it.

crash pad

crash pad
A free, temporary lodging place, as in The company maintains several crash pads for employees from out-of-town divisions. This expression originally referred to a place affording runaways, drug addicts, and the like somewhere to crash in the sense of “sleep.” In time it also was used more broadly, as in the example. [Slang; 1960s]

crash the gate

crash the gate
Gain admittance, as to a party or concert, without being invited or without paying. For example, The concert was outdoors, but heavy security prevented anyone from crashing the gate. This term originally applied to persons getting through the gate at sports events without buying tickets. By the 1920s it was extended to being an uninvited guest at other gatherings and had given rise to the noun gatecrasher for one who did so. [Early 1900s]