All related terms of 'things'

an object, fact, affair , circumstance , or concept considered as being a separate entity

You can use thing to refer to any object, feature , or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely.

You can use thing to refer to any object, feature , or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely .

to have hallucinations

informal → another name for tea service

You can use thing to refer to any object, feature , or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely .

You can use thing to refer to any object, feature, or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely .

In all things means in every situation and at all times.

to believe one is seeing or hearing something that is not really there

You say ' first things first ' when you are talking about something that should be done or dealt with before anything else because it is the most important .

Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized .

You say all things considered to indicate that you are making a judgment after taking all the facts into account .

young, fun-loving , fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s

If you say that someone is seeing or hearing things , you mean that they believe they are seeing or hearing something that is not really there.

an event or action whose outcome is nearly a failure , success , disaster , etc

If you say that something is a sure thing , you mean that you are certain that it will happen or be successful.

You use expressions like as things go or as children go when you are describing one person or thing and comparing them with others of the same kind .

something that cannot be avoided , helped , changed, etc.

to overtax one's strength , capacity , etc

a young person

If you say that something is in the nature of things , you mean that you would expect it to happen in the circumstances mentioned .

to always do everything very well and very thoroughly

If you say ' other things being equal ' or ' all things being equal ' when talking about a possible situation , you mean if nothing unexpected happens or if there are no other factors which affect the situation.

a network of objects that are fitted with microchips and connected to the internet , enabling them to interact with each other and to be controlled remotely

in comparison with how other people (or things) are

If you say that someone never does things by halves , you mean that they always do things very thoroughly.

You can use the way things are going to indicate that you expect something to happen because of the way the present situation is developing .

If someone tells you to take it easy or take things easy , they mean that you should relax and not do very much at all.

to indulge in a noisy celebration

If you say that something is the shape of things to come , you mean that it is the start of a new trend or development , and in future things will be like this.

a style of jazz in which improvization is dominant

If you say that someone or something is trying to be all things to all men or to all people , you are criticizing them because they are trying to behave in a way that will please everyone, and this is impossible .

(in the philosophy of Kant ) an element of the noumenal rather than the phenomenal world, of which the senses give no knowledge but whose bare existence can be inferred from the nature of experience

When people talk about the scheme of things or the grand scheme of things , they are referring to the way that everything in the world seems to be organized .

You use expressions such as as it is , as it turns out , and as things stand when you are making a contrast between a possible situation and what actually happened or is the case .

If you say it is just one of those things you mean that you cannot explain something because it seems to happen by chance .

to have a very large number of a particular thing

If you say that the odds are stacked against someone, or that particular factors are stacked against them, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed in what they want to do because the conditions are not favourable .

If you say that there are more things than you could or can shake a stick at , you are emphasizing in a humorous way that there are a lot of them.