Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 1 compound words that contain graveyard. The most common are listed below. Open graveyard in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 25
- whistle past the graveyardTo attempt to stay cheerful in a dire situation; to proceed with a task, ignoring an upcoming hazard, hoping for a good outcome.
- graveyard shiftA work shift late at night, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.
- elephants' graveyardA place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age, in order to die alone.
- Graveyard of EmpiresAfghanistan.
- Graveyard of the AtlanticA nickname for the treacherous waters and area of numerous shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States.
- ghost in the graveyardA children's game, a form of tag in which the player designated as the ghost attempts to catch the others before they can reach base.
- aircraft graveyardSynonym of boneyard (“dumpsite for aircraft”).
- automobile graveyardAn establishment which is maintained or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
- flies' graveyardA sweet pastry filled with currants or raisins.
- graveyard orbitAn orbit where spacecraft which have reached their end of life can be safely positioned to avoid colliding with other spacecraft or the Earth.
- graveyard poetryA type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.
- graveyard slotA time period, especially very late at night, during which the audience is very small compared to other times of the day.
- graveyard slotsplural of graveyard slot: A time period, especially very late at night, during which the audience is very small compared to other times of the day.
- graveyard spiralThe downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.
- graveyard shifterOne who works a graveyard shift or is employed in one.
- graveyard shiftsplural of graveyard shift: A work shift late at night, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.
- graveyard stewSynonym of milk toast: A food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter, but which also may contain other ingredients.
- graveyard watchThe middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am.
- graveyard watchesplural of graveyard watch: The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am.
- graveyard orbitsplural of graveyard orbit: An orbit where spacecraft which have reached their end of life can be safely positioned to avoid colliding with other spacecraft or the Earth.
- graveyard shiftersplural of graveyard shifter: One who works a graveyard shift or is employed in one.
- graveyard spiralsplural of graveyard spiral: The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.
- whistles past the graveyardthird-person singular simple present indicative of whistle past the graveyard: To attempt to stay cheerful in a dire situation; to proceed with a task, ignoring an upcoming hazard, hoping for a good outcome.
- whistling past the graveyardpresent participle and gerund of whistle past the graveyard
- whistled past the graveyardsimple past and past participle of whistle past the graveyard
Compound words 1
- graveyardyResembling or characteristic of a graveyard.