Definition
To lose interest; to pall.
To diminish in intensity or urgency.
To become less successful.
In Context
- "As one of the rearguard put it, "We laid up until the Hun had gone off the boil a bit and slipped out the following night.""
- "But John, not surprisingly, has gone off the boil, and feels nothing for Annette so strongly as an intense weariness and desire to be rid of her."
- "Wednesday to Shadow, "I don't sleep. It's overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid - in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don't get back to her.""
- "By then we'd gone off the boil sexually and he was even less keen than I was about 'marriedness', so it was more like friends deciding to share a flat than the setting-up of a ménage."
See Also
- be off the boil
- be on the boil
- bring to the boil
- come off the boil
- come on the boil
- come to the boil
- go on the boil
- return to the boil