potter

Related to potter: Beatrix Potter, Potter syndrome

potter about

To move from place to place, doing trivial, random, or aimless tasks or activities. It makes me sad thinking of my granddad pottering about in that big old house all by himself. I didn't have a specific plan while I was in London, so I spent most of the time just pottering about.
See also: potter

potter along

1. To move forward at a slow or listless pace. You can still see my granddad pottering along into town each morning, the same way he's done every morning for the last 30 years. I hate it when people potter along in the bike lane when I'm trying to get to work each morning. Go to the countryside if you're looking for a leisurely cycle!
2. To continue or make progress at a steady, consistent pace, especially one that is neither particularly fast nor slow. The economy has been pottering along for a while now, and while it continues to make gains, it is not accelerating at the pace many economists say is needed to recover from the recession. Our business has been pottering along. We haven't exploded into success, but we're making good growth each month.
See also: potter

potter around

To move from place to place, doing trivial, random, or aimless tasks or activities. It makes me sad thinking of my granddad pottering around that big old house all by himself. I didn't have a specific plan while I was in London, so I spent most of the time just pottering around.
See also: around, potter

potter's clay

A special type of clay that does not contain iron and is often used for making pottery. OK, class, make sure to get some potter's clay before you sit down at your wheel today.
See also: clay

potter's field

A place where the indigent or the unknown are buried. A reference to the Bible, "So they conferred together and bought the potter's field with it as a burial place for foreigners" (Matthew 27:7). Primarily heard in US. The work was so grueling that a great number of immigrant laborers who built the railroads across this country ended up in some potter's field or another before the job was complete.
See also: field
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • defect to
  • defect to (something)
  • ditch (some place)
  • Mecca for
  • flock in
  • flock in(to) (some place or thing)
  • barrel in
  • barrel in(to)
  • come on into (some place)
  • come right in
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Potter about
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A concurrence of potters, landscape and passion: potters cottage a tribute exhibition by Grace Cochrane
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Kids go potty for Potter on return to school
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Credited as the series that got the children of the 21st century back into the habit of reading, Harry Potter can undoubtedly be called the most famous children's book of our times.
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