off the boil

idiom

British, informal

: into a state that is less good than before

After two hit singles, the band went off the boil and eventually disbanded.

Examples of off the boil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sure, the tech giants have come well off the boil and the Nasdaq 100 held tough at the 20,000 level and there’s a scenario in which mega-cap tech starts to act as defensive leadership again at some point. —Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025

Add 6 ounces of hot water (just off the boil) to the mug and steep one teapigs green tea with peach for 5 minutes. —Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2025

While inflation is well off the boil from its 40-year high in mid-2022, recent months have shown prices drifting up. —Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024

Price pressures off 2022 peak Economic data of late has indicated that price pressures are well off the boil from their peak in mid-2022, when inflation hit its highest level since the early 1980s. —Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 July 2024

And there's no need to get a thermometer; just let your water kettle ($16, Amazon) rest off the boil for 30 to 45 seconds. —Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2024

Bitcoin, after storming through much of October, has somewhat come off the boil with the bitcoin price falling back from highs of around $67,000. —Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021

Taken together, the figures paint a picture of an economy that is, at long last, coming off the boil. —Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023

There was a Labor Department report that jobless claims rose a bit in the latest week, matching economists’ estimates and suggesting that a still-strong job market is coming off the boil. —Heard Editors, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022

Rhymes for off the boil

• aerofoil
• cinquefoil
• hydrofoil
• quatrefoil
• airfoil
• benzoyl
• despoil
• embroil
• etoile
• gargoyle
• recoil
• subsoil