petrol bombing
/ˈpɛtr(ə)lbɒmɪŋ/noun
The action of throwing a petrol bomb; an instance of this.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Times. From petrol + bombing, after petrol bomb.
- as long as
- as long as one's (or someone's) arm
- aslope
- a slow burn
- as luck would have it
- ASM
- a smack in the face (or eye)
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- (as) mad as a gum tree full of galahs
- (as) mad as a hatter
- (as) mad as a March hare
- (as) mad as a meat axe
- a small fortune
- as many
- Asmara
- Asmera
- (as) merry (or lively) as a grig
- as much
- (as) much as
- Asn
- as near as
- as near as dammit (or damn it)
- as near as damn it
- (as) nice (or sweet) as pie
- a snowball's chance (in hell)