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- Get your goat
- The dictionary definition of goat is a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra. Whats that got to do ...
- Get your dander up
- t is often reported that it gets my dandruff up is one of Samuel Goldwyns celebrated Goldwynisms. When it comes to having aphorisms that ...
- A foot in the door
- An introduction or way in to something, made in order that progress may be ...
- Go haywire
- Hay-wire is the light wire that was used in baling machines to tie up bales of hay. At the turn of the 20th century the ...
- Gild the lily
- To apply unnecessary ornament - to over ...
- Go the whole hog
- To perform some act or adopt some opinion fully and ...
- Fly off the handle
- This is an American phrase and it alludes to the uncontrolled way a loose axe-head flies off from ...
- Flavor of the month
- Something that is prominent in the public eye for a short time then fades out of interest. Originally a term of approval for something that ...
- Fashion victim
- This term came into prominence in the 1970s and 80s. It is an older phrase than that though and was in ...
- Donkeys years
- A very long time. Sometimes referred to as Donkey Years or Donkeys Ears. It means a really ...
- As dead as a dodo
- If something is as dead as a dodo, it is not important or popular any more . The dodo was a large bird which could not fly and which does not exist any more. If ...
- Two Useful Phrases
- Cooked for exactly the right amount of time, done to perfection, Cooked just ...
- Down the tubes
- Which tubes are being alluded to in this expression isnt known for ...
- Come a cropper
- Fall over or fail at ...
- Colour up
- To blush or turn red in ...
- The Collywobbles
- A state of intestinal disorder, usually ...
- Cold turkey
- The sudden and complete withdrawal from ...
- Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Very cold weather conditions. Also ...
- Coin a phrase
- To create a ...
- Close quarters
- Close contact with, especially in a ...
- Close, but no cigar
- Fall just short of a successful outcome and ...
- Jump on the bandwagon
- oin a growing movement in support of someone or ...
- Catch 22
- A paradox in which the attempt to escape ...
- Bury the hatchet
- To settle your differences with ...
- Brownie points
- A notional mark of achievement, or ...
- Break a leg
- Said to actors for good luck before they go ...
- Blaze a trail
- When soldiers blaze away with their ...
- Blast from the past
- Something or someone that returns after a ...
- The birds and the bees
- A phrase that refers to coy explanations of basic ...
- Big fish in a small pond
- People who are important but only within their ...
- The bees knees
- Its difficult to know if we need an etymologist ...
- Between a rock and a hard place
- In difficulty, faced with a choice between two ...
- Be afraid, be very afraid
- Ostensibly, a warning that something dangerous is ...
- Bats in the belfry
- Bats are, of course, the erratically ...
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Making a mistake or a false assumption in ...
- Bad hair day
- A day on which ones hair seems ...
- Back-seat driver
- This comes from the annoying habit of ...
- Back to the drawing board
- Start again on a new design - after a failure of ...
- Baby boomer
- A person born during the temporary peak in ...
- As happy as a clam
- Why would clams be happy? It has ...
- As easy as pie
- There are many similes in English that have ...
- Acid test
- In the California Gold Rush in the second ...
- A sledgehammer to crack a nut
- To use a sledgehammer to crack a nut means to use ...
- A shot in the arm (Phrase Dictionary - Meanings and Origins)
- This expression derives from the invigorating effect of ...
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- Perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised by the ...
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