Use milk in place of [=instead of] water for creamier hot chocolate.
In place of butter, olive oil was served with the bread.
The prince ruled the kingdom in place of his father. = The prince ruled the kingdom in his father's place.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
in someone's/something's stead — formal : in the place of someone or something She conducted the meeting in his stead. One empire died, and another arose in its stead. • • • Main Entry: ↑stead … Useful english dictionary
scrounge around for someone or something — [skraund3...] in. to look around for someone or something; to seek someone or something in every likely place. □ Try to scrounge around for somebody to go to the party with, why don’t you? □ I don’t think there is anybody who will go with me, but … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
send someone or something packing — send (someone or something) packing see ↑send • • • Main Entry: ↑pack send (someone or something) packing informal : to force (someone or something) to leave a place or situation We were sent packing after the first day of tryouts. A loss in… … Useful english dictionary
take the place of someone — take someone s place or take the place of someone to do something instead of someone else No one could ever take the place of her father. Joe resigned as chairperson in 1999 and I took his place … English dictionary
bombard someone with something — bombard (someone) with (something) to continually send someone something, esp. to inform or influence them. Every day it seems as if we are bombarded with e mail messages warning of computer viruses. Stuart bombarded her with flowers, phone calls … New idioms dictionary
ball someone or something up — tv. to ess someone or something up; to put someone or something into a state of confusion. □ When you interrupted, you balled me up and I lost my place … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
crawling with someone or something — od. covered with someone or something; alive with someone or something. □ The place was crawling with police and FBI agents. □ The room was just crawling with ants … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
turn someone or something upside down — tv. to upset someone or something; to confuse someone or something. □ We turned his place upside down, but never found the gun. □ The whole business turned me upside down. It’ll take days to recover … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
put some distance between someone and someone or something — tv. to engthen the distance or time between oneself and someone or something (including a place). □ I gotta put some distance between me and that cop, fast. □ You need to put some distance between you and your brother’s death. □ She needed enough … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
mess someone or something up — tv. to ut someone or something into disorder. (See also messed up.) □ You messed me up a little bit, but I know you didn’t mean to bump into me. CD Who messed up this place? … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
