| Idiom
List (alphabetical order) |
Last Updated:
5/10/2006 |
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| Idiom |
Date |
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| all wet |
11/27/2005 |
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| apple doesn't
fall far from the tree, the |
12/15/2005 |
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| apple-pie
order |
3/10/2006 |
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| apples and oranges |
12/14/2005 |
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| as clean,
pure, etc. as the driven snow |
1/11/2006 |
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| at the
eleventh hour |
12/21/2005 |
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| babe in the
woods, a |
5/10/2006 |
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| bark up the wrong tree |
11/16/2005 |
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| beat around the bush |
11/20/2005 |
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| beauty sleep |
4/3/2006 |
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| black-and-blue |
2/21/2006 |
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| blow/knock
sbfs socks off |
12/24/2005 |
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| brain bucket |
2/2/2006 |
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| brain bucket |
2/2/2006 |
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| break a leg! |
12/22/2005 |
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| bring home
the bacon |
12/3/2005 |
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| build castles
in the air / in Spain |
1/17/2006 |
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| bull in a
china shop, a |
4/12/2006 |
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| burn the
candle at both ends |
12/26/2005 |
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| capitalize on
/ upon sth |
2/24/2006 |
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| carrot-and-stick |
3/19/2006 |
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| Catch-22 |
4/15/2006 |
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| coast is clear, the |
11/15/2005 |
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| crocodile
tears, (shed/cry) |
1/7/2006 |
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| cut to the
chase |
2/19/2006 |
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| dry run |
1/20/2006 |
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| dry up |
11/28/2005 |
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| duck soup |
1/31/2006 |
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| en route |
2/26/2006 |
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| feast your
eyes on somebody/something |
12/30/2005 |
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| feather in
one's cap, a |
1/6/2006 |
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| feed the kitty |
11/29/2005 |
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| floorwalker |
4/20/2006 |
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| fly in the
ointment, a/the |
12/19/2005 |
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| fly off the
handle |
12/1/2005 |
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| food for
thought |
3/3/2006 |
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| foot the bill |
11/30/2005 |
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| from the word
go, (right) |
1/13/2006 |
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| funny bone |
12/9/2005 |
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| get off to a
flying start |
4/29/2006 |
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| get one's
feet wet |
12/13/2005 |
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| get one's
teeth into sth |
12/16/2005 |
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| get/have
one's wires crossed |
12/10/2005 |
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| get-up-and-go |
11/11/2005 |
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| go for broke |
2/12/2006 |
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| go south |
5/7/2006 |
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| go to pot |
5/4/2006 |
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| go/be out
like a light |
12/18/2005 |
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| green with
envy |
3/17/2006 |
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| hale and hearty |
11/8/2005 |
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| ham actor |
3/6/2006 |
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| have a field
day |
4/13/2006 |
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| have a green thumb |
11/19/2005 |
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| have
bigger/other fish to fry |
12/27/2005 |
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| have legs |
1/3/2006 |
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| have one's
cake and eat it too |
12/29/2005 |
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| have
something on the brain |
4/25/2006 |
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| have too many
irons in the fire |
2/7/2006 |
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| heads or
tails? |
1/24/2006 |
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| hit the hay |
12/20/2005 |
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| hold / keep
sb/sth at bay |
2/14/2006 |
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| horse of a
different/another color, a |
1/28/2006 |
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| housebroken
(house-broken) |
3/26/2006 |
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| in / out of
the loop |
2/10/2006 |
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| in a pickle |
2/1/2006 |
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| in a pickle |
2/1/2006 |
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| in mint condition |
11/23/2005 |
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| in one's cups |
12/8/2005 |
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| ivory tower |
1/9/2006 |
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| kangaroo
court |
3/4/2006 |
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| keep one's
nose clean |
12/17/2005 |
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| kick up one's heels |
11/9/2005 |
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| lick
somebody's boots |
5/3/2006 |
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| little bird
told me, a |
4/7/2006 |
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| magnet school |
1/29/2006 |
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| make one's
pile |
2/18/2006 |
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| make waves |
3/2/2006 |
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| meat and
potatoes |
12/7/2005 |
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| no spring
chicken |
12/4/2005 |
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| no-brainer |
5/6/2006 |
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| not let the grass grow under
one's feet |
11/26/2005 |
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| off base |
5/1/2006 |
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| off the cuff |
3/16/2006 |
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| olive branch |
5/2/2006 |
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| on cloud nine |
11/24/2005 |
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| on easy
street |
2/9/2006 |
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| on the dot |
1/8/2006 |
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| on the house |
12/2/2005 |
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| on the line |
11/14/2005 |
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| on the nose |
11/17/2005 |
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| on the QT |
1/16/2006 |
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| one's eyes are bigger than one's
stomach |
11/13/2005 |
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| over my dead
body |
2/8/2006 |
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| over the hill |
3/30/2006 |
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| pay through
the nose (for sth) |
1/5/2006 |
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| pick-me-up |
2/23/2006 |
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| pie in the
sky |
4/9/2006 |
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| pig in a poke |
3/8/2006 |
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| powerhouse |
4/2/2006 |
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| pull the plug
(on sth) |
4/21/2006 |
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| push the
envelope |
1/2/2006 |
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| put one's
finger on sth |
4/18/2006 |
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| quick and
dirty |
2/11/2006 |
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| ring a bell |
12/23/2005 |
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| rub
shoulders/elbows with sb |
5/8/2006 |
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| sbfs apron
strings |
3/7/2006 |
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| see stars |
12/28/2005 |
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| sell sb down
the river |
3/5/2006 |
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| set the world
on fire |
1/23/2006 |
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| set up shop |
1/4/2006 |
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| shoot the breeze |
11/21/2005 |
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| show sb /
know / learn the ropes |
2/4/2006 |
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| sitting duck |
2/22/2006 |
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| sleep in |
11/18/2005 |
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| sleeping
policeman (BE) / speed bump (AE) |
2/5/2006 |
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| spin like a
top |
1/1/2006 |
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| sporting
blood |
2/3/2006 |
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| spread
oneself too thin |
12/6/2005 |
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| stars in
one's eyes |
1/18/2006 |
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| strike out |
3/21/2006 |
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| sweep sth
under the carpet/rug |
1/15/1900 |
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| take a rain
check (on something) |
5/9/2006 |
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| take five /
ten |
3/9/2006 |
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| take one's
medicine |
1/10/2006 |
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| take
something on the chin |
1/30/2006 |
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| talk turkey |
11/25/2005 |
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| tempest in a
teapot, a |
12/5/2005 |
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| there are
plenty more fish in the sea |
5/5/2006 |
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| toast of c,
be the |
12/31/2005 |
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| too many
cooks (in the kitchen) spoil the broth |
3/23/2006 |
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| top of the
tree, (at/to) the |
12/12/2005 |
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| tough/smart
cookie |
12/25/2005 |
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| town and gown |
1/14/2006 |
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| trip the light fantastic |
11/12/2005 |
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| turn the
other cheek |
4/8/2006 |
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| turn turtle |
1/12/2006 |
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| under the
knife |
12/11/2005 |
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| window
dressing |
3/12/2006 |
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| with bells on |
2/6/2006 |
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| with flying colors |
11/22/2005 |
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| with tongue in cheek |
11/10/2005 |
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