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Place the car upright. Merriam-Webster defines upright as "vertically upward". (Although it's not always easy to define directions in a dictionary.) You can see examples with pictures online on wikiho …

The verb to ventriloquize means literally to perform as a ventriloquist (see Merriam-Webster) but in metaphorical use it often means to speak for someone else or to articulate what someone would say i …

"X doesn't grow on trees" It's in the Free Dictionary: To not be abundant; to not be available freely, cheaply, or without effort. Most often used in the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees."

Engagé is used as an adjective in English. It was Merriam-Webster word of the day on Jan 24, 2013. They define it as "committed to or supportive of a cause". They explain "Engagé" is the past partici …

Like saying black is white This is in Cambridge dictionaries which says If someone says or believes black is white, they say or believe something that is completely untrue, especially because this is …

"logrolling" The term is better known in other fields such as politics and book reviewing/criticism (politicians mutually supporting each other's bills; authors mutually reviewing books such that A f …

A participant is someone who's involved in an event, who participates or takes part. (Merriam-Webster) Lexico has many examples, including people taking part in politics, active members of organisatio …

They don't want to get their hands dirty. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English gives one meaning of this as "to get involved in the difficult, dishonest, or unpleasant side of something" Example …

A walk in the park is "something that is very easy to do, and usually pleasant" according to Cambridge dictionaries. It's not always used of journeys - Cambridge gives the example sentence "He's used …

The term "poor-face" is sometimes used for pretending to be poor, making superficial attempts to understand what it's like to be poor, or claiming to know what it's like to be poor despite being well …

One psychological term is celebrity worship syndrome, according to Wikipedia "an obsessive addictive disorder in which a person becomes overly involved with the details of a celebrity's personal and p …

This is a common fictional trope, and TV Tropes calls it Dead All Along; it is found in many works of fiction, particularly horror films. The typical plot is that a character is unknowingly dead, wand …

The old fashioned saying 'twas ever thus (it was ever thus - Free Dictionary) and the originally French plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more it changes, the more it's the same thing - Wi …

To highball means to make a high estimate, generally of a price or cost. Wiktionary says: To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration. Its example: If we highball the price, it comes out to …

Wikipedia defines sadfishing as "a behavioural trend where people make exaggerated claims about their emotional problems to generate sympathy." It's a form of attention-seeking behaviour. The name is …