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Idioms and Phrases

According to weight rather than height, volume, or some other measure. For example, In Europe bread often is sold by weight rather than by the loaf . [c. a.d. 1000]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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