be bursting with something

to have a lot of something or be filled with something:

John was bursting with ideas and good humour.

The shops are bursting with food.

be bursting with pride/energy/excitement etc

Your mum's bursting with pride for you.

Move suddenly

[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move somewhere suddenly or quickly, especially into or out of a place

burst into/through/in etc

Jo burst into the room.

Burst open

to open suddenly:

The door burst open and Tom ran into the room.

Be bursting to do something

informal to want to do something very much:

Zach was bursting to tell them something.

Be bursting

a) British English informal to need to go to the toilet very soon

b) also be bursting at the seams to be so full that nothing else can fit inside

burst somebody's bubble

informal to destroy someone's beliefs or hopes about something:

Steve was so happy I couldn't bear to burst his bubble.

Burst its banks

if a river bursts its banks, water from it goes on to the land

➔ full (up) to bursting

at full¹ (1)

; ➔ burst the bubble

at bubble¹ (6)

; ➔ the bubble bursts

at bubble¹ (5)

burst in on/upon somebody/something

phrasal verb

to interrupt something by entering a room, in a way that embarrasses you or other people:

I'm sorry to burst in on you like this.

Burst into something

phrasal verb

1 to suddenly begin to make a sound, especially to start singing, crying, or laughing:

Claire looked as if she were about to burst into tears.

Suddenly, the group burst into laughter.

Lydia burst into song.

burst into flames/flame

to suddenly start to burn very strongly:

Their car crashed and burst into flames.

burst onto/upon/on something

phrasal verb

to suddenly appear and become very successful:

The band burst onto the music scene in 1997.

Burst out

phrasal verb

burst out laughing/crying/singing etc

to suddenly start to laugh, cry etc:

Everyone burst out laughing.

2 to suddenly say something in a forceful way:

'I don't believe it!' she burst out angrily.

trench [countable]

1 a long narrow hole dug into the surface of the ground:

Workers dug a trench for gas lines.

2 technical a long narrow valley in the ground beneath the sea

3 [usually plural] a deep trench dug in the ground as a protection for soldiers:

the trenches of World War I

The trenches

the place or situation where most of the work or action in an activity takes place:

Lane left teaching after 30 years in the trenches.

school‧mas‧ter [countable] British English

a male teacher, especially in a private school (=one that parents pay to send their children to)

Brief

1 continuing for a short time:

We stopped by Alice's house for a brief visit.

Let's keep this conversation brief; I have a plane to catch.

a brief period/moment/spell etc

Greene spent a brief time at Cambridge.

2 using very few words or including few details:

The President read a brief statement to reporters before boarding his plane.

a brief description of the film

Be brief

to say or write something using only a few words, especially because there is little time:

I'll be brief; a lot of changes are going to happen.

4 clothes which are brief are short and cover only a small area of your body:

a very brief bikini

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