Idioms for tank
- failing, doing poorly, or declining: His grades were in the tank last quarter.
- favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for): The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.
go in/into the tank, Boxing Slang.
to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
in the tank, Slang.
Origin of tank
1610–20; perhaps jointly < Gujarati
tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese
tanque, contraction of
estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of
estancar (< Vulgar Latin
*stanticāre) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)
OTHER WORDS FROM tank
tank·less, adjective tank·like, adjectiveWords nearby tank
Example sentences from the Web for tank
British Dictionary definitions for tank
tank
/ (tæŋk) /
noun
verb
See also
tank up
Derived forms of tank
tankless, adjective tanklike, adjectiveWord Origin for tank
C17: from Gujarati
tānkh artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese
tanque, from
estanque pond, from
estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin
stanticāre (unattested) to block,
stanch
Idioms and Phrases with tank
tank