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- To the fore – Prominent
- To blow the gaff – To revel a secret
- To get into bad odour – To become popular
- Worth one’s weight in cold – Invaluable
- To cook one’s goose – To ruin one’s chances or plans completely
- Gravy train – Source of much or easy; money
- Like grim death – Very firmly
- To let one’s hair down – To behave informally
- To hand in one’s cheeks – To die
- To run with the hue and hunt with the hounds – To be on good terms with both sides in a dispute
- Hare and hound – Paper chase
- To take up the hatchet – To prepare for or go to war
- Heavy tidings – Bad news
- Hell for leather – As quick as possible
- Cat in hell’s chance – No chance at all
- Like a bat out of hell – At top speed
- High and mighty – Arrogant
- A hill of beans – A thing of little value
- to hoist with one’s own petard – To be caught in ones own trap
- From the horse’s mouth – From a reliable source
- To take issue – To be in disagreement
- everyman jack – Everyone without exception
- The cut of one’s jib – A person’s personal appearances or manner
- To kick against the pricks – To hurt oneself by useless resistance
- At the rate of knots – Very fast
- The last straw – An addition to a task, burden, etc. Which strained one’s patience to the limit
- To be all legs – To be a tall and very thin person
- To have a hollow leg – To have a large appetite
- A lick and a promise – A feeble attempt
- Out on a limb – In a dangerous situation
- To live by one’s wits – To get money by ingenious and irregular methods not necessarily honest
- The devils own luck – Good luck
- To have a memory like a sieve – To have a faint memory
- Middle of the road – Average
- To have a monkey on one’s back – To be addicted to narcotic drug
- The mote in somebody’s eye – A very minor mistake (of somebody)
- To go through the motions – To work carelessly
- In a muck – In an untidy situation
- Not for nuts – Under no circumstances
- To sport one’s oak – To keep one’s door close
- Odd and even – Game of chance
- to carry off the palm – To be victorious
- To be par for the course – To be what one would expect to happen or expect somebody to do
- To pay the debt of nature – To die
- To know (somebody) off his pedestal – To show that he is no longer highly regarded
- Penn y wise and pound foolish – shaving small sums at the risk of large ones
- To be in the picture – To be familiar with the matter
- To pip(somebody) at the post – To defeat at the last moment
- To stretch a point – To make an exception
- Printer’s devil – The youngest apprentice in a printing office
- To put out feelers – Cautiously check the views of others
- a/the sixty four dollar question – An important question that is very difficult to answer
- The quick and dead – All people alive or dead
- In a flat spin – In a state of panic
- To be the dead spit of – Exact counterpart or likeness of
- To stew in one’s own juice – To suffer the consequences of one’s own action
- To strike a chord – To say something that other people sympathize or identify with
- To have the sun in one’s eye – To drink
- A month of Sundays – A long period of time
- to put to the sword – To kill
- Not for all the tea in china – No matter how great the reward
- The king of terror – Death
- As thick as thieves – Very friendly
- The tip of the iceberg – Small but evident part of a much larger concealed situation
- A man about town – A man who spends much time at fashionable parties, clubs, theatres
- To lay someone under tribute – To impose tax on somebody
- To swear like a trooper – To use very obscene or blasphemous language
- To twiddle one’s thumb – To be idle
- To be up before somebody – To appear in court
- To take the veil – To become a nun
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