carry
carry (one) (somewhere)
To accompany or escort someone to a certain location or event. It's already dark out, so be a gentleman and carry that gal home.
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carry (oneself)
1. To walk or move in a certain physical manner. If you carried yourself with better posture, you might not have such back pain. Self-conscious of her height, she always carries herself erect to seem taller to others.
2. To act, behave, or conduct oneself socially or in public (i.e., as pertains to grace, etiquette, speech, grooming, body language, etc.). Always be aware of how you carry yourself when in polite company. The way he carries himself in public belies his strict upbringing.
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carry (someone) (somewhere)
To escort or accompany someone to a particular place or location. Might I carry you to the dance, Miss?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
carry
1. in. to carry drugs on one’s person. (Drugs.) If you get busted while you’re carrying, you are in big trouble with the man.
2. n. drugs carried on the person as an emergency supply in case of arrest. (Underworld.) The cops found my carry, and I spent three days in the clink climbing the walls.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- a card-carrying member (of something)
- a dog that'll bring a bone will carry a bone
- as fast as (one's) legs can carry (one)
- as fast as your legs can carry you
- be a card-carrying member (of something)
- be carried away
- be carried out feet first
- be/get carried away
- bear cross
- can carry a tune
- can't carry a tune
- can't carry a tune in a bushel basket
- can't carry a tune in a paper sack
- card-carrying
- card-carrying member
- carried away
- carry
- carry (an amount of) weight
- carry (one) (somewhere)
- carry (one) back
- carry (one's) bat
- carry (one's) cross
- carry (one's) own weight
- carry (one's) weight
- carry (oneself)
- carry (someone or something) about
- carry (someone or something) along with (someone or something)
- carry (someone or something) over from (somewhere)
- carry (someone or something) over to (some place)
- carry (someone) (somewhere)
- carry (someone) off their feet
- carry (someone's) water
- carry (something) into effect
- carry (something) onto (something)
- carry (something) to extremes
- carry (something) too far
- carry (something) with (one)
- carry a big stick
- carry a rope in (one's) pocket
- carry a secret to (one's)/the grave
- carry a secret to the grave
- carry a torch
- carry a torch for
- carry a torch for (one)
- carry a torch for somebody
- carry a torch for someone
- carry a tune
- carry about
- carry all before (one)
- carry all before you
- carry along
- carry an amount of weight
- carry around
- carry away
- carry back
- carry coals
- carry coals to Newcastle
- carry down
- carry fire in one hand and water in the other
- carry forward
- carry in(to) (some place)
- carry into some place
- carry nothing about (someone or something)
- carry off
- carry on
- carry on somehow
- carry on with (someone)
- carry on with (something)
- carry on without
- carry on without (someone or something)
- carry onto
- carry out
- carry over
- carry over from
- carry over to
- carry over to/until (some day or time)
- carry somewhere
- carry the ball
- carry the can
- carry the day
- carry the mail (for someone)
- carry the message to Garcia
- carry the stick
- carry the torch
- carry the torch for (someone)
- carry the weight of the world on (one's) shoulders
- carry the weight of the world on shoulders
- carry the weight of the world on your shoulders
- carry the world before (one)
- carry the world before you
- carry through
- carry through on (something)
- carry too far
- carry up
- carry water
- carry water for (someone)
- carry weight
- carry weight with (someone or something)
- carry with one
- carry your bat
- carry/take something too, etc. far
- carry/win the day
- carrying a (heavy) load
- carrying a heavy load
- carrying a load
- carrying charge
- cash-and-carry
- coals to Newcastle, to carry/bring
- couldn't carry a note in a bucket
- couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
- cross (somebody has) to carry
- don't make a threat you cannot carry out
- don't make threats you cannot carry out
- fetch and carry
- fetch and carry (for someone)
- follow through
- get carried away
- get carried away with (someone or something)
- like taking coals to Newcastle
- millstone (around one's neck), to bear/carry a
- never make a threat you cannot carry out
- never make threats you cannot carry out
- off someone's feet
- on shoulders
- run as fast as (one's) legs can carry (one)
- speak softly and carry a big stick
- take (something) too far
- walk softly and carry a big stick