Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 134 compound words that contain bury. The most common are listed below. Open bury in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- bury the hatchetTo cease fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.
- bury the leadAlternative spelling of bury the lede: To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.
- bury the ledeTo begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.
- Bury St EdmundsA cathedral and market town and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8564).
- bury one's head in the sandTo deliberately ignore the reality of a situation; to pretend a problem does not exist.
- bury your gaysA fiction trope where gay characters tend to die or generally meet an untimely demise.
- re-buryAlternative form of rebury: To bury again.
- the box they're going to bury it inA person or product that hastens the obsolescence of another person or product.
- the boxes they're going to bury them inplural of the box they're going to bury it in: A person or product that hastens the obsolescence of another person or product.
- carry me out and bury me decentlyAlternative form of carry me out (“exclamation of pretended astonishment”).
Compound words 134
- WestburyA village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).
- MiddleburyA town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
- KingsburyA habitational surname from locations.
- OldburyA place in England:
- SouthburyA town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
- CanonburyA suburb of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3284).
- HaileyburySynonym of Hailey; a village in Hertfordshire, England.
- ShutesburyA town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
- EastburyA village in Lambourn parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3477).
- buriableAble to be, or designed to be buried.