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- Things that go bump - Rand
05/18/03
- Or not - Fred 05/18/03
- Crunch time - MM 05/18/03
- Not really on - MM 05/18/03
- Carter's Liver Pills - TRG
05/18/03
- Surname - Lotg
05/17/03
- The Origin of Names - Lap
of the Goddess 05/17/03
- Hold your peace - David
Bergdahl 05/17/03
- 'everything's all Sir Garnet'
- John 05/17/03
- Carminow - Julian 05/17/03
- WAGG - Lilly 05/17/03
- MEANING OF "POINT BLANK"
- BillShope 05/17/03
- Pass the buck - TRG
05/17/03
- Two cents worth & pounds, shillings
& pence - Lotg 05/17/03
- Blue-Sky Thinking - Brian
from Shawnee 05/16/03
- Hootnanny - Word Smitten
05/16/03
- Got the red ass - Raymond
05/16/03
- Lounge - ESC 05/16/03
- Heavens to mugatroyd - mandy
05/16/03
- Why a baby is "it"?
- Roman Korolenko 05/16/03
- Murphys Law - Lap of the
Goddess 05/16/03
- Tuckered out - Lap of the
Goddess 05/16/03
- Help plz - kathaab afandi
05/16/03
- Hop in the hay - Bob
05/16/03
- Fourteen-day rule - Mei
05/16/03
- Corny (as in jokes) - Lap
of the Goddess 05/16/03
- Cripes & crikey - Lap
of the Goddess 05/16/03
- Ignorance is bliss - Mike
05/16/03
- The oldest phrase in the English
language? - Krissy Lavery 05/15/03
- Origination of phrase - willie
05/15/03
- The ultimate challenge! help me
with my english project! - kirby 05/15/03
- Every Man a Rembrandt - ESC
05/15/03
- Words ending in 'gry' - Kit
05/15/03
- Girl Friday where did it come from?
- Low Rider 05/15/03
- Thick skinned - Lap of the
Goddess 05/15/03
- Buzz words - Lap of the
Goddess 05/15/03
- More phrasal verbs - kathaab
afandi 05/15/03
- Somethink, anythink, I seen it,
I done it. - Lotg 05/15/03
- A friend in need is a friend indeed
- Felicity 05/15/03
- Is this a trick question? -
Wayne 05/15/03
- A square meal - toastie
05/14/03
- Quit cold turkey - steve
bradley 05/14/03
- Pot Hole - Erik Zalenski
05/14/03
- "That's The Horse I Ride"
- Bubba 05/14/03
- Pennsylvania talk - ESC
05/14/03
- Rode him like a one-hump camel
(?) - ESC 05/14/03
- "In a zero sum game"?
- Nina Xu 05/14/03
- Cats Curiosity and Fat - Professor
Dan Remenyi 05/14/03
- BBC's "redness" -
Celia 05/14/03
- Shoot the Moon - Lap of
the Goddess 05/14/03
- Jump through hoops - Penny
Rea 05/14/03
- The phrase 'corner case' -
Rob Lanphier 05/14/03
- Nipple Nazis - TheFallen
05/14/03
- Humanized radio - Celia
05/14/03
- What is this phrase???? - Jamie
05/13/03
- PHRASE - JOAN LEDOUX
05/13/03
- Sailing quote - R. Bromleigh-McNeil
05/13/03
- Bean counter - Shirley Vander
Vorste 05/13/03
- Other Fish in the Sea - Bev
05/13/03
- "She is really a moth in the
wool" - Ward A. Fredericks 05/13/03
- Grammar mavens - a question
- ESC 05/13/03
- BBC's political loyalty - Mei
05/13/03
- Hunkey Dorey - Kev Hendry
05/13/03
- Some phrases plz - kathaab
afandi 05/13/03
- Yowza! - Cogito 05/13/03
- To "hold a candle" for
someone - tina callcut 05/12/03
- Who wrote this, in what? -
joan king 05/12/03
- Tiger by the tail - KGT
05/12/03
- A Glossary site - James
Briggs 05/12/03
- Origin of "To Put Your Foot
in Your Mouth" - emily ann 05/11/03
- Put something down & Put something
right - MM 05/11/03
- "Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake"
- Don Gregory 05/11/03
- Larking about - Angri of
'Uddersfield 05/11/03
- Cock a Snook - DanF
05/11/03
- Dodgy and Dicey - Lap of
the Goddess 05/11/03
- Phrase through - Jane
05/11/03
- Paint your self in to a corner
- S. 05/11/03
- Crime Scene Investigation -
miri barak 05/10/03
- Bandwagon - Lotg
05/10/03
- The toil of ink-stained hacks
- Mei 05/10/03
- Cotton-pickin - jeff
05/09/03
- Yous, (Youse?) Ireland and New
York - Word Camel 05/09/03
- Past experience - Lap of
the Goddess 05/09/03
- Whether or Not - Lap of
the Goddess 05/09/03
- Usage vs Use - Lap of the
Goddess 05/09/03
- Who coined the phrase "coined
the phrase?" - Govenah 05/09/03
- First you see it, then you don't
- Lotg 05/08/03
- Origin of "third world country"
- chas 05/08/03
- Shot in the saddle???? - jon
Erickson 05/08/03
- Daylight robbery & window tax
- Julian 05/08/03
- Happy birthday spam - ESC
05/08/03
- Can't make an omlette without breaking
eggs.... - Paul B 05/08/03
- Brass Monkeys - Kev
05/08/03
- BULLY FOR YOU - John Faith
(Cyprus) 05/08/03
- All hands on deck - SF
05/08/03
- Provide me the phrase - pravesh
05/08/03
- More Important vs. More Importantly
- S. 05/08/03
- The meaning of a phrase - Bob
Trower 05/08/03
- Help a desperate Brazilian young
woman - Elaine Pepe 05/08/03
- What do you mean if you say'Such
being the case, I can't help but support him' - whengrowup
05/08/03
- History Repeats Itself -- who said
this?? - Brock 05/08/03
- Ben Franklin - Tisha
05/07/03
- Misheard lyrics - Kenn v
05/07/03
- What's the meaning - Mloes
05/07/03
- "Worth his/her salt"
- Summer 05/07/03
- Origin of "Get a handle on
it" - J 05/07/03
- Origin of "Heads up"
- J 05/07/03
- Drunken Sky - D.L. 05/07/03
- Cats in the cradle - Neil
Cavanagh 05/07/03
- Straws in the wind - Sophia
05/07/03
- Impartiality - Mei 05/07/03
- Public scepticism - Purple
05/07/03
- Impersonal techniques - Mei
05/07/03
- Office jargon - ESC 05/06/03
- Drinking of toasts from skulls
- Celia 05/06/03
- Origin of phrase - Bruce
Smith 05/06/03
- Ahead of the game - S. Ryan
05/06/03
- A few more phrasal verbs - kathaab
afandi 05/06/03
- In One's Dodge - S. 05/05/03
- To Feel One's Oats - S.
05/05/03
- Dear John Letter - S.
05/05/03
- Sling your hook - ceafumoon
05/05/03
- Out of whack - Michael Scullin
05/05/03
- Stamp duties - Mei 05/05/03
- Oops! - Lotg
05/05/03
- Cannot or can not? - EE
05/05/03
- In the proverbial toilet - SF
05/05/03
- Birds and the bees - bob
05/04/03
- The lowest hacks of literature
- Mei 05/04/03
- Meaning of "Going off half
cocked" - Dakota raised 05/04/03
- "A Lightning Rod"
- Jerre Conder 05/04/03
- Devils advocate - Andrew
Powell 05/04/03
- If I didn't know any better
- MM 05/04/03
- Believe in the tooth fairly
- MM 05/04/03
- Coquettish allure - kathaab
afandi 05/04/03
- Phrase, explanation not found
- Heath Lawrence 05/04/03
- Significance of the telegraph
- Mei 05/04/03
- Offer an olive branch - G
05/04/03
- Obscure meaning. - stefan
05/03/03
- "To do an Irish" -
Cedric Barfoot 05/03/03
- Some Phrases plz - kathaab
afandi 05/03/03
- What does "keep in touch" mean? - varda 05/03/03
- Need help - pasiree
05/03/03
- Brave boys, shy girls, men fixing
roofs, women baking cookies, God, witches, owls, heathens, birthday
cake, and religious fanatics - Word Camel 05/03/03
- Low point - AA 05/03/03
- What the heck does this mean?
- LisSuz 05/03/03
- At large - witchbaby
05/02/03
- These phrases meaning plz -
kathaab afandi 05/02/03
- More (insert word) than you can
shake a stick at - Jenn 05/02/03
- Today is the day they give away
babies... - Dan Dennis 05/02/03
- Tooth & Nail - Pamela
Winter 05/02/03
- Two more - miri barak
05/02/03
- Its all down hill from here
- Drew Collin 05/02/03
- Herd of turtles - Carol
05/02/03
- Killing with kindness - Sax
05/02/03
- Slang and pun - Miri Barak
05/01/03
- Fissle or fistle - Steph
Phillips 05/01/03
- Make my day - ESC 05/01/03
- Oh dear me - is it suds, sauce,
suss or something else entirely? - Woodchuck 05/01/03
- Parsons nose - dan 05/01/03
- Thick and thin? - S. Ryan
05/01/03
- Old saying? - S. Ryan
05/01/03
- Lady of the Night - slang names
- Maria S 05/01/03
- Hurricanes - Sax 05/01/03
- No matter where you go, there you
are - Mike Huovila 05/01/03
- Towards or Towards? - Brian
from Shawnee 04/30/03
- Get your goat - ESC 04/30/03
- Coopers ducks - irene
04/30/03
- Too much information - andrew
04/30/03
- Rock of Ages - S. 04/30/03
- The art of printing - Mei
04/30/03
- Don't come the raw prawn with me
- Lotg 04/29/03
- Lap of the Gods - Lap of
the Goddess 04/29/03
- Synonyms? - S. 04/29/03
- Blowing smoke revisited - Word
Camel 04/29/03
- Gone for a Burton - Ian Hamilton
04/29/03
- HELP - Mike Floyd 04/29/03
- Not to build at all - Celia
04/29/03
- Depth/independence - Purple
04/28/03
- Hand in marriage - S. Ryan
04/28/03
- Capitals - holly 04/28/03
- Tie the knot - S. Ryan
04/28/03
- Turn a question on its head
- Azad 04/28/03
- Shag like a Minx - Nick
04/28/03
- Programming language - Mei
04/28/03
- Common as Muck - Heatherbelle
04/27/03
- "With all due respect"
- Dr. Ward Fredericks 04/27/03
- Accidents by flood and field
- Mei 04/27/03
- I need help with a quote, reply
as soon as possible plz - Vudoodude 04/27/03
- HELP please!! - Allison
04/27/03
- What's the origin - ANgElnDEvil
04/27/03
- What is the origin? - Linda
04/27/03
- Questions from TOEFL - Tom
04/26/03
- Infamous publications - Mei
04/26/03
- King's-Arms Tavern - Celia
04/26/03
- Three florins - Mei 04/25/03
- Pack Sand - jen 04/25/03
- Full fathom five - Brian
from Shawnee 04/25/03
- Millionaire's family - Barbara
04/25/03
- Wine press - Celia 04/25/03
- Paper journey - Mei 04/25/03
- Persian flaw - Sharon
04/25/03
- Don't mention the War! - C
Salway 04/24/03
- Origin of "beelzebub has a
devil for a sideboard"? - Mama Mia 04/24/03
- The Opposite of "The Benefit
of the Doubt" - S. 04/24/03
- German words commonly used in English?
- EE 04/24/03
- By some mysterious alchemy -
Anders 04/23/03
- Phrase - Connie 04/23/03
- Beauty is as Beauty Does? -
Darold Vredberg 04/23/03
- Chaos! Panic! Disorder! - Lost
Choice 04/23/03
- Mondegreen - stu 04/23/03
- I give you props - Dali
04/23/03
- Need speling - Ed 04/23/03
- Love conquers all - Saxon
04/23/03
- What does this expression mean?
- Ben McDevitt 04/23/03
- Well, blow me down - Bev
Graham 04/22/03
- The origin of Football Terms
- Kris Hans 04/22/03
- Cat - Kim 04/22/03
- "Let the dead bury the dead,"
- andrew 04/22/03
- Straight-edgers - ESC
04/22/03
- What gives me power - alivingbeing
04/22/03
- A bum rap - EE 04/22/03
- Meaning of..... - Guy
04/22/03
- English - Latin - James
04/21/03
- Tough row/ road - S. Ryan
04/21/03
- Put money in the kitty. - Bill
Kipp-Young 04/21/03
- Domineering wife and submissive
husband - EE 04/21/03
- Kith and kin - ESC 04/21/03
- Goo Goo eyes-The meaning and origin
- Don 04/21/03
- Fall between the cracks - celia
04/20/03
- Rode hard and put away wet -
Dr. Ward Fredericks 04/20/03
- Antonyms - Gordon Bates
04/19/03
- Shit - shit stabber 04/18/03
- Phrase "How's your father?"
- Michael 04/18/03
- There but for fortune... - S.
Ryan 04/18/03
- Quotation: Forgetting a wrong is
a mild revenge - E. Gaffney 04/18/03
- Translation - Stella
04/18/03
- Cali girl - zxc 04/18/03
- SOME HELP FROM SPAIN!!!!!!!
- marian 04/17/03
- Rudyard Kipling Gunga Din -
Frazer Rice 04/17/03
- Getting older - S. Ryan
04/17/03
- Level best - S. Ryan
04/17/03
- Cooter Brown - Man or Myth -
Matt Cooke 04/17/03
- Four ways from Sunday - John
Buttner 04/17/03
- French words commonly used in English
- AA 04/17/03
- Identify a poem? - the monk
04/17/03
- Phrasal verbs - janes_kid
04/16/03
- Constructive termination - ESC
04/16/03
- Eluviation expert - ESC
04/16/03
- Crossword clue - Bookworm
04/16/03
- Replaced with/by - Fred
04/15/03
- War words - ESC 04/15/03
- In tension with - Mei
04/15/03
- Extra credit, please help -
Misty 04/14/03
- RE: Nice word or phrase - S.
Ryan 04/14/03
- Origin of "Hi There"
- Eva Cameron 04/14/03
- On midstream merit - celia
04/14/03
- In the large - mei227
04/14/03
- Quiet Land Title - S.
04/14/03
- Easter egg - Jim Judson
04/14/03
- Pot shots or pop shots? - Dan
Tyler 04/14/03
- An intervention into the ongoing
debates - Mei 04/13/03
- Phrase origin - nikki
04/13/03
- The Living End - Tom
04/13/03
- Origin of "from pillar to post"
- Frank J. Mandriota 04/13/03
- New words - James Briggs
04/13/03
- Friend of yours - Anders
04/13/03
- More of the same - miri barak
04/13/03
- Book recommendation for word fans
- Wrod Camel 04/12/03
- Cache - Fred 04/12/03
- Pearl Harbour - Catherine
Clacher 04/12/03
- Damn the Torpedos - S.
04/12/03
- "Mox nix" "Mocks
Nicks" "Machts nichts" actually Macht Nichts
- David P. Hagar 04/11/03
- Origin of the phase "win the
hearts and minds of the people" - Martin Bogue
04/11/03
- "Train is sailing"?
- Visio 04/11/03
- German Profs declare war on English
terms - ESC 04/11/03
- A matter of understanding -
miri barak 04/11/03
- Turbas, thumbs up and other Iraqi
images - ESC 04/10/03
- Origin of phrase - CJ
04/10/03
- A codified definition - Mei
04/10/03
- Please Help with This Quotation
- S. 04/10/03
- "Close to" or "close
with" - HGL 04/10/03
- Everyone has his/her or their?
- EE 04/10/03
- Oxford English - AA 04/10/03
- "I am not too/also."
- EE 04/10/03
- BUCK NAKED - MICHELLE
04/10/03
- Rock the bop - Bob 04/09/03
- BROOK(S) NO TRUCK: what does this
mean? - Paula Dispenza 04/09/03
- Meaning of this phrase - Vimala
Raheja 04/09/03
- An old maxim - Mei 04/09/03
- Make for grim reading - Mei
04/09/03
- Including but not limited to
- a 04/09/03
- Devil docs - ESC 04/09/03
- P.U. - Homer 04/08/03
- Too smart - peter dunn
04/08/03
- Carpe diem - EE 04/08/03
- "Que sera, sera"
- AA 04/08/03
- Origins of the phrase "crazy
like a fox" - Justin Radell 04/08/03
- Going to town - mike
04/08/03
- Summer Teeth - S. 04/08/03
- Terrible and horrible - EE
04/08/03
- The phrase, "Wait for it..."
- Mike 04/08/03
- Front and center - MM
04/08/03
- What do these quotes mean from shakespeare???
- liz 04/08/03
- Phrasal verb - Eudes Martins
04/07/03
- In like Flint - Johnny Drako
04/07/03
- "The God that Failed"
- S. 04/07/03
- Love Jones - mayur 04/07/03
- Similie and metaphor - AA
04/06/03
- Info please - Sherry
04/06/03
- Help - sharon 04/06/03
- Walk the talk - MM 04/06/03
- Has a hook to it - MM
04/06/03
- New coinage - Sauerkraut
04/06/03
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