| 单词 | boil down |
| 释义 | boil downSEE SYNONYMS FOR boil down ON THESAURUS.COM verb (adverb)to reduce or be reduced in quantity and usually altered in consistency by boilingto boil a liquid down to a thick glue boil down to
Words nearby boil downBoiardo, Boieldieu, boil, boilable, boil away, boil down, Boileau, Boileau-Despréaux, boiled, boiled dinner, boiled dressing Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with boil downboil down Simplify, summarize, or shorten, as in John finally managed to boil his thesis down to 200 pages. boil down to. Be reducible to basic elements, be equivalent to. For example, What this issue boils down to is that the council doesn't want to spend more money. These metaphoric usages allude to reducing and concentrating a substance by boiling off liquid. [Late 1800s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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