Drag your feet
If someone is dragging their feet, they are taking too long to do or finish something, usually because they don't want to do it.
Draw a blank
If you try to find something out and draw a blank, you don't get any useful information.
Draw the line
When you draw the line, you set out limits of what you find acceptable, beyond which you will not go.
Dressed to the nines
If you are in your very best clothes, you're dressed to the nines.
Drink like a fish
If someone drinks like a fish, they drink far too much alcohol.
Drive a wedge
If you drive a wedge between people, you exploit a small issue so that people start to disagree.
Drop in the Ocean
A drop in the ocean implies that something will have little effect because it is small and mostly insignificant.
Dry as a bone
If your lawn is as dry as a bone, the soil is completely dry.
Duck to water
If you take to something like a duck to water, you find when you start that you have a natural affinity for it.
Dwell on the past
If you thinking too much about the past, so that it becomes a problem, is to dwell on the past.
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