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111tear a strip off someone — ► tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) Brit. informal rebuke someone angrily. Main Entry: ↑tear …
112tear someone off a strip — ► tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) Brit. informal rebuke someone angrily. Main Entry: ↑tear …
113tear smoke — noun A lachrymatory vapour that, as opposed to tear gas, is visible • • • Main Entry: ↑tear …
114tear webbing — noun Webbing in which two adhering layers form a fold that will tear apart so as to lessen the violence of a sudden strain • • • Main Entry: ↑tear …
115tear a strip off someone — tear someone off a strip/tear a strip off someone/british informal phrase to criticize someone angrily for doing something wrong Thesaurus: to criticize stronglysynonym to say something, or to speak to someone in an angry waysynonym Main entry …
116tear someone's heart out — tear someone’s heart out/tear at someone’s heart/literary phrase to make someone feel very sad or upset Thesaurus: to make someone feel sad or upsetsynonym Main entry: tear …
117tear at someone's heart — tear someone’s heart out/tear at someone’s heart/literary phrase to make someone feel very sad or upset Thesaurus: to make someone feel sad or upsetsynonym Main entry: tear …
118tear something open — phrase to open something such as an envelope or a parcel quickly by tearing the paper covering it Caroline tore the envelope open to see what was inside. Thesaurus: to tear something, or to be tornsynonym Main entry: tear …
119tear your hair out — tear/pull/your hair out informal phrase to feel very worried or very annoyed about something because you do not know what to do about it Thesaurus: to be, or to become angry or annoyedsynonym to worry or feel nervous about somethingsynonym …
120tear|down — tear down or tear|down «TAIR DOWN», noun. 1. the act or process of tearing down; destruction: »... a fast tear down of all trade boundaries (Maclean s). 2. U.S. a) the act or practice of demolishing a house in order to build a larger house in its …
