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A bunch of fives
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
A Daniel come to judgement
A diamond in the rough
A diamond is forever
A dish fit for the gods
A drop in the bucket
A fate worse than death
A feather in one's cap
A fish out of water
A fly in the ointment
A fool and his money are soon parted
A fool's paradise
A foot in the door
A foregone conclusion
A friend in need is a friend indeed
A golden key can open any door
A good man is hard to find
A hard man is good to find
A hiding to nothing - On
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A knight in shining armour
À la carte
À la mode
À legend in one's own lifetime
A leopard cannot change its spots
A little bird told me
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
A little of what you fancy does you good
A load of cobblers
A load of codswallop
A man after my own heart
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
A ministering angel shall my sister be
A miss is as good as a mile new item
A nation of shopkeepers
A no-brainer
A picture is worth a thousand words
A piece of the action
A pig in a poke
A place for everything and everything in its place
A plague on both your houses
A priori
A red rag to a bull new item
A riddle wrapped up in an enigma
A rolling stone gathers no moss new item
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
A rose is a rose is a rose
A safe pair of hands
A sea change
A skeleton in the closet
A sledgehammer to crack a nut
A shot in the arm
A sight for sore eyes
A sorry sight
A stitch in time saves nine
A stone's throw
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
A tinker's damn
A wolf in sheep's clothing
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
A woman's place is in the home new item
A word in edgeways new item
A word in your shell-like
A1 at Lloyds
Abandon all hope ye who enter here new item
Abide with me
About face
About turn
Above board
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absent without leave
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Accidentally on purpose
Accidents will happen
According to Hoyle
Ace in the hole
Achilles' heel
Acid test
Acronyms
Across the board
Act of God
Act the giddy goat
Action man
Adam's ale
Aga saga
Against the grain
Age before beauty new item
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
Agree to disagree
Aid and abet
Aide-mémoire
Air kiss
Air quotes
Al fresco
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
Alike as two peas in a pod
Alive and kicking
All agog
All at sea
All fingers and thumbs
All good things come to he who waits
All present and correct
All publicity is good publicity
All singing, all dancing
All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold
All the tea in China - Not for new item
All things must pass
All you can eat
Alter ego new item
Amber nectar
An albatross round his neck
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
An arm and a leg
An Englishman's home is his castle
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
An ill wind
An offer he can't refuse
An Oxford scholar
Anchors aweigh new item
Angry young man
Ankle biter
Annus horribilis
Another think coming
Apple of my eye - The
Apple pie order
April fool
Arm candy - see ear candy
Arms akimbo
Ars longa, vita brevis
Arty-farty
As XXX as YYY
As alike as two peas in a pod
As bald as a coot
As black as Newgate's knocker
As brown as a berry
As busy as a bee
As cold as any stone
As cool as a cucumber
As dead as a dodo
As dead as a doornail
As easy as pie
As fast as greased lightning new item
As fine as frog's hair
As fit as a butcher's dog
As fit as a fiddle
As good as gold
As good luck would have it
...As happy as
As happy as a clam
As happy as a sandboy
As happy as Larry
As keen as mustard
As mad as a hatter
As mad as a march hare
As nice as ninepence
As old as Methuselah
As old as the hills
As pleased as Punch
As pure as the driven snow new item
As queer as a nine bob note
As snug as a bug in a rug
As straight as a die
As the crow flies
As white as snow
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
Ask not) for whom the bell tolls)
H)asta la vista, baby)
At loggerheads
At one fell swoop
At one's beck and call
At sixes and sevens
Àugur well new item
Auld lang syne
Away with the fairies new item
Baby blues
Baby boomer
Baby father
Back of beyond - The
Back-seat driver
Back the field
Back to basics
Back to square one
Back to the drawing board
Backroom boy
Bacon - Bring home the
Bad books
Bad egg
Bad hair day
Badgered to death
Bag and baggage
Baker's dozen
Balance of power - The
Balance of trade - The
Bald as a coot
Bale out/bail out
Ball and chain
Bandy words with
Bane of your life new item
Bang on about
Baptism of fire
Barge-pole - Wouldn't touch with a
Barking mad
Barking up the wrong tree
Basket case
Bated breath
Bats in the belfry
Batten down the hatches
Battle royal
Be afraid, be very afraid
Be still, my beating heart
Beam ends - On your
Beast with two backs
Beat about the bush
Beat swords into ploughshares
Beat a hasty retreat
Beat the living daylights out of someone
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Beauty is only skin deep
Beck and call
Bed of roses
Bee in your bonnet new item
Beef and reef
Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard
Been there, done that
Beer and skittles
Bee-line - make a bee-line for
Bee's knees - The
Beetle-browed
Before you can say Jack Robinson
Beg the question
Beggars can't be choosers new item
Behind every great man there's a great woman
Behind the eight ball
Bell, book and candle
Belle of the ball
Below the belt
Below the salt
Belt and braces
Belt up
Best bib and tucker
Best laid schemes of mice and men - The
Bet your bottom dollar
Better half
Better late than never
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Between a rock and a hard place
Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
Between two stools
Between you, me and the bed-post
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Beyond our ken
Beyond the pale
Biblical phrases
Big Apple - The
Big cheese - The
Big Easy - The
Big fish in a small pond
Big wig
Bill Stickers is innocent
Billy-o - Like
Billy no mates
Binge drinking
Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - A
Birds and the bees - The
Birds of a feather flock together
Bite the bullet new item
Bite the dust
Bitter end - The
Black as Newgate's knocker
Black-on-black
Black sheep of the family
Blast from the past
Blaze a trail
Blind leading the blind - The
Bling-bling
Blonde bombshell
Blood and thunder
Blood is thicker than water
Bloody-minded
Blot on the landscape
Blow a raspberry - see raspberry tart
Blow your mind
Blow your own trumpet
Blown to smithereens
Blue blood
Blue-plate special
Bob's your uncle new item
Bode well new item
Bodice ripper
Body - phrases related to the human body
Body surfing
Bog standard
Bolt from the blue
Bone dry
Bone idle
Bone up on
Booby prize
Booby trap
Boogie-woogie
Booze cruise
Born again
Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
Born within the sound of Bow Bells
Boss eyed
Bottle out
Bottom drawer
Bottom-up
Bought the farm
Bowled a maiden over
Box and Cox
Box-seat - in the
Boxing Day
Brand spanking new
Brass monkey weather
Brass tacks - get down to
Bread always falls buttered side down new item
Bread of life - The
Break a leg
Break the ice
Bricks and clicks
Bring home the bacon
Broad in the beam
Broke - if it ain't, don't fix it new item
Brown as a berry
Brownie points
Brummagem screwdriver
Bubble and squeak
Buck stops here - The
Buckle down
Bugger Bognor! new item
Bullet - Bit the, Bite the
Bums on seats
Bun in the oven
Bunch of fives - A
Bunny boiler
Burn the candle at both ends
Burning the midnight oil
Bury the hatchet
Bury your head in the sand
Busy as a bee
Butt end of the stick - The
Butter side down
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
By and large
By dint of
By gum
By hook or by crook
By the board
By the book
By the short hairs
By the skin of your teeth
By your leave new item
Dance attendance on
Daniel come to judgement
Darby and Joan
Dark horse
Darkest hour is just before the dawn - The
Dark side - The new item
Darling buds of May
Date rape
Davy Jones' locker
Daylight robbery
Dead as a dodo
Dead as a doornail
Dead cat bounce
Dead ringer
Delusions of grandeur
Derring-do new item
Designer stubble
Deus ex machina
Devil and the deep blue sea
Devil Incarnate - The
Devil take the hindmost - The
Devil to pay - The
Diamond in the rough
Diamond is forever - A
Die-hard
Die has been cast - The
Different kettle of fish
Differently abled
Dirt bag
Dish fit for the gods - A
Do unto others as you would have them do to you
Doesn't know shit from Shinola
Dog days
Dog in the manger new item
Dog's bollocks
Dog's breakfast
Dog's dinner
Doldrums - in the
Dollars to donuts
Done a runner
Done to a turn
Donkey's years
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't change horses in midstream
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
Don't die like I did new item
Don't go there
Don't have a clue
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
Don't let the bastards grind you down
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
Doom and gloom
Double cross
Double Dutch
Double whammy
Down at heel
Down in the dumps
Down the pan
Down the tubes
Drag race new item
Draw a blank
Dressed to the nines
Drink like a fish
Driving while black
Drop-dead gorgeous
Drop in the bucket - A
Dropping like flies
Drummed out of the army
Ducks and drakes
Dust up
Dutch - My old
Duvet day
Ear candy
Early bird catches the worm - The
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Ear-mark
Easy as pie
Eat drink and be merry
Eat humble pie
Eat my hat
Eaten out of house and home
Economical with the truth
Egg on
Eighty six
Elementary my dear Watson
Elephant in the room
Elvis has left the building
End of story
Englishman's home is his castle new item
Et tu, Brute
Ethnic cleansing
Even at the turning of the tide
Every cloud has a silver lining new item
Everybody out
Exceedingly well read
Exception that proves the rule - The
Ex)cuse me while I kiss this guy)
Excuse my French
Extraordinary rendition
Eye candy - see ear candy
An) eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth)
Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
Kangaroo court
Katy bar the door
Keep a wide berth
Keen as mustard
Keep body and soul together
Keep schtum
Keep a stiff upper lip
Keep it under your hat
Keep the ball rolling new item
Keep up with the Joneses
Keep your chin up
Keep your hands clean new item
Keep your nose clean new item
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Keep your pecker up
Keep your powder dry
Keepy-uppy
Kettle of fish
Khyber pass
Kick the bucket
Kick your heels
Kickin' - Alive and
Kilroy was here
King James' Version of the Bible
Kiss and tell
Kiss me Hardy
The whole) kit and caboodle)
Knee-jerk reaction
Knick-knack
Knight in shining armour new item
Knock back
Knock off
Knock on wood
Know the ropes
Know your onions
Know which way the wind blows
Knuckle down
Knuckle under
La-di-da
La dolce vita
Labour of love
Lackadaisical
Lager frenzy
Laid out in lavender
Lamb to the slaughter
Lame duck
Lardy-dardy
Lark about
Last but not least
Last straw - The
Latin Phrases
Laugh like a drain
Laughing-stock
Lay it on with a trowel
Lead balloon - Go over like a
Lead-pipe cinch
Learn the ropes
Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
Left in the lurch
Legend in one's own lifetime
Leopard cannot change its spots - A
Less is more
Let not poor Nelly starve new item
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Let or hindrance
Let a thousand flowers bloom
Let the cat out of the bag
Let them eat cake
Let there be light
Let your hair down
Let's roll new item
Level playing field
Lick and a promise
Lick into shape
Lickety-split
Lie low
Life begins at forty new item
Life in the 1500s - folk etymologies
Life of Riley
Life's not all beer and skittles
Life's too short
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Like a moth to a flame
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Like billy-o
Like the clappers
Like the Dickens
Like two peas in a pod new item
Little bird told me - A
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing - A
Little of what you fancy does you good - A
Lions led by donkeys
Live long and prosper
Living daylights
Living off the fat of the land
Living on borrowed time
Lo and behold new item
Load of cobblers
Load of codswallop
Loaf of bread
Local derby
Lock stock and barrel
Long in the tooth
Look before you leap new item
Loose cannon
Loose lips sink ships
Lose face
Lose your marbles
Love is blind
Love that dare not speak its name - The
Loved-up
Mad as a hatter
Mad as a march hare
Magical realism
Main chance
Make a bee-line for
Make a clean breast of it new item
Make a virtue of necessity
Make haste
Make hay while the sun shines new item
Make him an offer he can't refuse
Make my day
Make no bones about
Make your hair stand on end
Mal de mer
Man after my own heart - A
Man does not live by bread alone
Man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client - A
Man's inhumanity to man
Many a little makes a mickle new item
Many are called but few are chosen
Many happy returns
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Mare's nest
Marital aid
Market forces
Marry in haste, repent at leisure
May you live in interesting times
McCoy - The real
Mea culpa
Meat and drink
.Meat and two veg
Meet your Waterloo
Men in suits
Mend fences
Ménage à trois
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Merry Christmas
Mexican wave
Mickey Finn new item
Middle of the road
Might and main
The pen is) mightier than the sword)
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Milk of human kindness
Minced oaths
Mind your Ps and Qs
Ministering angel shall my sister be - A
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
Misquotations
Miss is as good as a mile
Moaning Minnie
Mondegreens
Montezuma's Revenge
Monty - The full
Moot point
Morbid obesity
More fool you
More honoured in the breach than in the observance
More light! new item
Morning person
Mother country
Motley crew
Mouth-watering
Moveable feast
Movers and shakers new item
Moving finger writes - The
Moving the goalposts
Much Ado about Nothing
Much of a muchness
Mud - your name is
Multitude of sins
Mumbo jumbo
Mum's the word
Murphy's Law
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
Mutt's nuts - The
Mutt and Jeff
My bad
My better half
My cup runneth over
My giddy aunt
My husband and I
My mind's eye
My old china
My old Dutch new item
My salad days
Nail your colours to the mast
Namby-pamby new item
Name and shame
Name is mud
Nasty, brutish and short
Nation of shopkeepers - A
Nautical phrases
Necessity is the mother of invention new item
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out
Ne'er do well
Needs must
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
Neither here nor there
Nest-egg
Never give a sucker an even break
Never knowingly undersold
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
Never-never land
Never the twain shall meet
New kid on the block
Nice as ninepence
Nice kettle of fish
In the) nick of time new item)
Night owl
Nine days' wonder
Nip and tuck
Nip in the bud
Nitty-gritty
No-brainer
No dice
No holds barred
No man is an island
?No more cakes and ale
No names: no pack-drill
No quarter given
No rest for the wicked
No room to swing a cat
No way, Jose
Nod is as good as a wink - A
Nosy parker new item
Not for all the tea in China new item
Not playing with a full deck
Not tonight Josephine
Not worth a plugged nickel
Not worth the candle
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Nothing succeeds like success
Now is the winter of our discontent
Nth degree
Nul points
Quality time
Quarter - Give no new item
Queer as a nine bob note
Queer Street
Queer the pitch
Quick and the dead - The
Quicker than lager turns to piss
Quid pro quo
Quotations
Sacred cow
Safe pair of hands - A
Safe sex
Salad days
Salt of the earth - The
San fairy Ann
Sandwich short of a picnic
Save face
Save one's bacon new item
Saved by the bell
Savoir faire
Say goodnight Gracie
Scarper
Scot free
(Scott (Sir Walter - phrases coined by
Screw your courage to the sticking place
Scuse me while I kiss this guy'
Sea change
Sealed with a loving kiss
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
See red
Seen better days
Send packing
Senior citizen
Sent to Coventry
Separate the sheep from the goats
Set one's cap at new item
Set your teeth on edge
Sex and shopping
Seven-year itch
Sexton Blake
Shebang - The whole
Shaggy dog story
Shake a leg
Shakers and movers new item
(Shakespeare (phrases and sayings of
?Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Shambles new item
Shanks' mare/shanks' pony
Share and share alike
Shilly-shally
Ship shape and Bristol fashion
Shit end of the stick - The
Shit for brains
Shiver my timbers
Short end of the stick - The
Shot across the bows
Shot heard 'round the world - The
Shot in the arm
Shot in the dark
Shoot through
Short shrift
Show a leg - see shake a leg
Show your mettle
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Shut your cake-hole
(Sick puppy (A
(Sight for sore eyes (A
Silver lining - every cloud has a new item
(Sir Walter Scott (phrases coined by
Silence is golden
Silver bullet
Sixes and sevens - At new item
Skeleton in the closet
Skid row
Skin and blister
By the) skin of your teeth)
The) sky's the limit)
Sledgehammer to crack a nut - A
Sleep like a top
Sleep on a clothesline new item
Sleep tight new item
Sloane Ranger
Slush fund
Smart casual
Smoke and mirrors
Snug as a bug in a rug
So sue me
Soap-dodger
Sod's Law
Sold down the river
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men, have mediocrity
thrust upon them
Someone is walking over my grave new item
?Something for the weekend sir
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
Son of a gun
Sorry sight
Sound bite
Sound out
Sour grapes
Space, the final frontier
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Speak of the Devil
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Special relationship
Spelling-bee
Spend a penny
Spick and span
Spill the beans
Spin doctor
Spitting feathers new item
Spitting image
Spruce-up
Square meal
Squeaky bum time
Stand and deliver
Stand up guy
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Star-crossed lovers
Start from scratch
Stark, raving mad
Steal a march
Steal my thunder
Stick in the mud new item
Sticky wicket
Stiff upper lip
Stiffen the sinews
Stinking rich
Stitch in time saves nine - A
Stone the crows
Stone's throw
Stony-hearted
Stool pigeon
Storm in a teacup
Straight as a die
Straight from the horse's mouth
Strain at the leash
Strait and narrow new item
Stranger danger
Stranger than fiction - Truth is
Strike while the iron is hot
Stuff and nonsense
Stump up
Such is life
Surf and turf
Surfing the Net/surfing the Internet/surfing the Web
Survival of the fittest
Suspension of disbelief
Swan song
Sweet Fanny Adams
Swing for you new item
Swing the lead
Walk free
Walk the walk
Walk the plank
(Walter Scott (phrases coined by
Warts and all
Wave a red rag to a bull new item
Wax poetic
We are a grandmother
We are not amused
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
We have seen better days
We know where you live
Weakest link - A chain is only as strong as its
Wear the trousers
Wear your heart on your sleeve
Weasel words
Wee-wee
Well heeled
Well read
Wet behind the ears
What a piece of work is man
?What are you like
What God has joined together let no man put asunder
?What part of no don't you understand
What you see is what you get - wysiwyg
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
?What's not to like
?What's up Doc
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
When it comes to the crunch
When pigs fly new item
When the shit hits the fan
Where there's muck there's brass
Whet your appetite
!While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil
Whistle and flute
Whistle down the wind
White as snow
White bread
Whipping boy
White elephant
Whole kit and caboodle - The
Whole nine yards - The
Whole shebang - The
Whoops-a-daisy
?Why does bread always fall butter side down
Wick - you get on my
Wide berth - Keep a
Wild and woolly
Wild goose chase
Willy nilly
Win hands down
Win one for the Gipper
On a) wing and a prayer)
Wing it
Winter drawers on
Wish you were here
With bells on
Without let or hindrance
Without so much as a by your leave new item
Woe betide you
Woe is me
Wolf in sheep's clothing
Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - A
Woman's place is in the home - A
Women and children first
Word association football
Word for word
A word in edgeways - A
Word in your shell-like - A
Words ending in gry
Worth one's salt
Wotcher new item
Wouldn't touch with a barge-pole
Writing is on the wall - The
Wrong end of the stick - The
Yada yada
Year dot - The
Yellow-belly new item
Yellow Peril
You are what you eat
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think
You can't get blood out of a stone
You can't teach an old dog new tricks new item
You get on my wick
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
Your money or your life
Your name is mud
You've never had it so good
Zero tolerance
Zig-zag