Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Feb 13, 2021 · Slow burn is an idiom that, according to the American English Dictionary, means a gradual buildup or increasing feeling of a show of anger toward a boiling point, in opposition to an immediate outburst. This idiom relates to boiling water, in that it will slowly burn up until it bubbles over.

  2. a slow, controlled show of anger: When angered, Ellen was given to spontaneous outbursts, while her partner Terry would do a slow burn. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Anger and displeasure. acrimony. anger. animus. annoyance. bad feelings idiom.

  3. Apr 13, 2007 · Slow Burn: Directed by Wayne Beach. With Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Jolene Blalock. A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.

  4. Slow burn definition: a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst. See examples of SLOW BURN used in a sentence.

  5. May 22, 2024 · In the ninth season of Slate’s Slow Burn, host Christina Cauterucci explores one of the most consequential civil rights battles in American history: the first-ever statewide vote on gay rights.

  6. slow burn noun [C usually singular] (ANGER) US. a slow, controlled show of anger: When angered, Ellen was given to spontaneous outbursts, while her partner Terry would do a slow burn. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of slow burn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

  7. About the Show. You think you know the story, or maybe you don’t. But Watergate was stranger, wilder, and more exciting than you can imagine. What did it feel like to live through the scandal that...

  1. People also search for