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- Quango - pdianek 06/30/03
- Phrases for ephemerality -
Weston 06/30/03
- Experience is the best teacher
- ope 06/29/03
- "A bit of a cheek"
- janes_kid 06/29/03
- Finagle - Bruce Kahl
06/29/03
- Tout court - Miri Barak
06/29/03
- Pleeease tell me what does "commodity
content" mean - Nima Malek Mohammadi 06/29/03
- A gentleman is than does -
Hya 06/28/03
- "Shuffle off this mortal COIL" (Shakespeare) - john michael smith 06/28/03
- Could you solve a few problems
in this short passage for me? - sphinx 06/28/03
- "Your mothers box"?
- 24woodson 06/28/03
- Phrase - J. McEvoy 06/28/03
- Salvageable - peppin
06/27/03
- People desrve the government they
get - Moe 06/27/03
- Saying - pay thru the nose
- Bob Dupuis 06/27/03
- Uranid - Miri Barak
06/27/03
- Pea turkey or p turkey - pete
vandenberg 06/27/03
- Smokin It Over - Carol
06/27/03
- Squirely - Stephanie
06/27/03
- Splurge - woody 06/26/03
- Big Apple - EE 06/26/03
- Cannot or could not remember?
- EE 06/26/03
- Phrases from Esquire -- Rated R
- ESC 06/26/03
- Hop on, bend, twirl, hop off
- Gary 06/26/03
- Bushisms - Shae 06/26/03
- Striped Pants Cookie Pusher
- Joe Xu 06/26/03
- No hard/heart feelings - Dan
06/26/03
- Coat cut to the cloth - michael
glass 06/26/03
- Kelsey's Balls - Carol
06/26/03
- Tipping the velvet - Margaret
06/26/03
- Farming-out work - rick
06/26/03
- Origin of phrase - R. Trochlil
06/25/03
- Simple things - andy jones
06/25/03
- Origin of "Can't see the wood
for the trees - Allan Simmons 06/25/03
- Like putting a rubber on a wildcat
- doug 06/24/03
- Burning your bridges - jay
06/24/03
- Blagging - ESC 06/24/03
- The alphabet - Leigh
06/24/03
- Naaf theory - Word Camel
06/24/03
- NEWS - Antonio 06/24/03
- True Friendship closes eyes
- Rajeev 06/24/03
- Children of lesser god - Senthil
Kumar 06/24/03
- One word - clint andrews
06/24/03
- Chatham House Rule - Ivo
Vegter 06/24/03
- They just aren't making any more.........
- Ron 06/24/03
- Dumb as a door knob. - Emily
C. 06/23/03
- "Shake a leg" - woody
06/23/03
- Hard Ass - Jay 06/23/03
- Bling-bling - ESC 06/23/03
- Dokey okay - Dada 06/23/03
- George Axelrod - ESC
06/23/03
- Show you the ropes - Kit
06/23/03
- Fire at will - Chuck
06/22/03
- PHRASE - PAT FINELLI
06/22/03
- Exprerssions from T.V. - Craig
06/22/03
- Longer odds - Celia 06/22/03
- On the QT - WILLY ANDERSON
06/22/03
- Eighty sixed - James McNelly
06/22/03
- Women's page - Mei 06/21/03
- Phrases - Mike George
06/21/03
- "Flat Foot Floogy"
- ESC 06/20/03
- Segway - Jane 06/20/03
- Mad as a box of frogs - Jim
06/20/03
- Stuck in my Craw - Saxon
06/20/03
- Beauty mark? - sphinx
06/20/03
- Expressions in a passage about self-image
- sphinx 06/20/03
- Hell-served-for-breakfast -
Vladimir 06/20/03
- "Grasping for the brass ring"
- EE 06/19/03
- Recognized credibility - Mei
06/19/03
- Meaning and source of a phrase
- KateB 06/19/03
- "Open Pandora's box"
- EE 06/19/03
- Could you help me on this English
questions? - sphinx 06/19/03
- Foot & Tie - Matt
06/18/03
- Hisory of the strawberry - Leigh
06/18/03
- Performing dogs - ellan
06/18/03
- A question - Mei 06/18/03
- Trees for Forest phrase - BJ
Wlkr 06/18/03
- Beating up the boys in blue
- Brian from Shawnee 06/17/03
- Holding on - kathaab afandi
06/17/03
- Phrase - asa nakamura
06/17/03
- Hot To Trot - matt 06/17/03
- Word Camel please... - sphinx
06/17/03
- Suit me down to the ground -
Sharon 06/16/03
- Origin of term black market
- Frances Dujon-Reynolds 06/16/03
- "Cold as fludgens/floogins/flujins?
- Kwannon 06/16/03
- Pennies From Heaven - Donna
06/16/03
- Need book title - katrina
06/16/03
- "Tumbleweed rolling across
the room/blowing across the screen" - Jenny 06/15/03
- "I'm Your Huckleberry"
- PurdueLiz 06/15/03
- Time is Money, Women are Evil
- Unwise Prophet 06/15/03
- Schwarmerei - Miri Barak
06/15/03
- "A live one" - Moe
06/15/03
- Eat off of ? - sphinz
06/15/03
- Where did "what in Tarnation" come from? - Tom Canazon 06/15/03
- Sayings - cbx 06/15/03
- What the deuce--! - cpl
06/15/03
- Efficiency gains - Celia
06/14/03
- 2 small questions - sphinx
06/14/03
- Swansong - woody 06/14/03
- Professional habits - EE
06/14/03
- Stuck up a gumtree - Chas
Bald 06/14/03
- Expression roots and meaning
- John Sshay 06/14/03
- Origins of insults - Christiaan
06/14/03
- In so far as - Celia
06/14/03
- Marx's preliminary insights
- Mei 06/14/03
- "He drank it all up"
- Moe 06/14/03
- Waxing Poetic - Jim of Virginia
06/13/03
- Some adjectives and dialogues
- sphinx 06/13/03
- Visiting firemen - Shirls
06/13/03
- All-out war - kathaab afandi
06/13/03
- New frames - Mei 06/13/03
- A consensual process of surveillance
- purple 06/13/03
- The moral accomplices of the secret
policemen - Celia 06/13/03
- Convictable? - TheFallen
06/13/03
- Friday the 13th - ESC
06/13/03
- RE: Feeling just ducky - Ron
Cook 06/12/03
- Tit for Tat - William
06/12/03
- J. Allen Hynek - Miri Barak
06/12/03
- Just Ducky - Ron Cook
06/12/03
- The news net - Mei 06/12/03
- Glure - ESC 06/12/03
- Heard It Through The Grapevine
- Becky 06/12/03
- Asylum seeker? - ESC
06/12/03
- Don't pull any punches - Diego
06/12/03
- Hindsight is 20/20 - hindsight
06/12/03
- Meaning of sentence possibly spy
- Mage Warrior 06/11/03
- "Black" sayings -
shar 06/11/03
- Help me please!! what's that got
to do with the price of coffee? - need to know 06/11/03
- All washed up... - S. Ryan
06/11/03
- San Fairy Ann - Katharine
Hill 06/11/03
- Raw vegetarian - ESC
06/11/03
- Past, present, and future -
TS 06/11/03
- Right or wrong? - peter
06/11/03
- Vanity Fair - AA 06/11/03
- "Silence is golden."
- EE 06/11/03
- As - EE 06/11/03
- "Gainsay who dare"
- EE 06/11/03
- Lip service - Saxon 06/10/03
- What is "lie to take"?
- TS 06/10/03
- Gadgey/Gadje - Steve Howarth
06/10/03
- If man were meant to fly...
- Helen 06/10/03
- D-Day - Jonathan 06/10/03
- "Keep your eyes peeled"
- woody 06/10/03
- 25 or 6 to 4 - twinkle
06/10/03
- Take it with a pinch of salt
- Leigh 06/10/03
- As right as rain.... - Sharna
06/10/03
- "For all it's worth" or
"all its worth" - Brock Harris 06/10/03
- A real cock up - walter
06/09/03
- Put up your dukes... - S.
Ryan 06/09/03
- Stewed merk or mert - Ian
06/09/03
- Origin of quote-- "keep your
fork duke, there's pie " - woody 06/08/03
- Accept and college party - sphinx
06/08/03
- Origin of "Roger that".
- PaladinWarrior 06/07/03
- To have a crush on? - Word
Camel 06/07/03
- Oliver Cromwell - RMC
06/07/03
- Not since? - sphinx 06/07/03
- Hi TheFallen, i'm still not sure...
- sphinx 06/07/03
- Mutton dressed as lamb - Robert
06/07/03
- 'Bling-Bling' Makes New Oxford Dictionary
- Bruce Kahl 06/07/03
- Pleeeease: Let a hundred flowers
bloom - nima 06/07/03
- Kellys eye *1 - Thelma Spokes
06/07/03
- Thanks for help and more ahead
- sphinx 06/06/03
- What did you know? - Haig
06/06/03
- American dream - EE 06/06/03
- What does this mean? - Michelle
06/06/03
- Soccer - Julie Constable
06/06/03
- Love of "Pete" or "Peat"
- Kevin Wills 06/05/03
- Asking help on phrases - Sphinx
06/05/03
- Get up the yard! - TheFallen
06/05/03
- Phrases - Kate McVicar
06/05/03
- Can anyone finish this??? -
June Bonfield 06/04/03
- Heath Robinson - James Briggs
06/04/03
- Finish this phrase - Sharon
06/04/03
- Rolling Deadlines - SFC
06/04/03
- Ratchet Things Up a Notch or Two
- SFC 06/04/03
- Flushed Out - MM 06/04/03
- Right Under their Noses - MM
06/04/03
- Idioms v cliches v euphemisms
- Geoff Bird 06/04/03
- Soldiers - Caz 06/04/03
- "Having said that.....................
- Ward Fredericks 06/04/03
- X-Nay.....where the heck....
- Ian Cognito 06/03/03
- Pin money - Bookworm
06/03/03
- Four-letter words - S. Ryan
06/03/03
- Tie the knot - andy 06/03/03
- Who's she - the cats mother?
- Caz 06/03/03
- -ise/-ize - Curly 06/03/03
- Wade through - susanna
06/03/03
- Fly-minded - Tom 06/03/03
- "Searching for that golden
ring" - Addison 06/03/03
- "Be all and end all"
- S. Ryan 06/02/03
- There is/are a considerable number
of people? - EE 06/02/03
- I swan - georgia 06/02/03
- Does anyone know what an "end" is? - P T Tressel 06/02/03
- The least possibility - Celai
06/01/03
- Da capo - Stephen Gourlay
06/01/03
- The white house press secretary
and the Internet - Miri Barak 06/01/03
- Minor aspects of good manners
- Celia 06/01/03
- Two fools quotation - David
Smith 06/01/03
- Closely associated with - Mei
06/01/03
- There is always someone worse off
than you - Kaz 05/31/03
- Help to or just help? - EE
05/31/03
- Subject as herinafter provided
- Celia 05/31/03
- Whipping boy - mei 05/30/03
- Poodle Faker - Nolan Bond
05/30/03
- Lame duck - Sax 05/30/03
- Know your onions - Gary
05/30/03
- Hindsight is 20/20 - geekiegirl
05/30/03
- A 'orrible shower - Iain
Brown 05/30/03
- In the midst of life we are in debt
- Ralph Carpenter 05/29/03
- Humdinger - J. Boehmke
05/29/03
- Does the word 'Rozzers' originate
in Polari slang? - Vanessa Carr 05/29/03
- Holy-moly - jeff 05/29/03
- Quotes Quotes Quotes - Vudoodude
05/29/03
- Teufel Hunden - maddog
05/28/03
- Song writer ideas - knox
05/28/03
- Derivation - J. Boehmke
05/28/03
- Budget British airline Go Fly Ltd.
- Miri Barak 05/28/03
- Blue Blood? - Robert
05/28/03
- Knock about - Tamio 05/28/03
- Heart in hand - Bob Jensen
05/28/03
- What is the derivation of the phrase "what are they smoking" - andrew 05/28/03
- Rat shop - S. 05/28/03
- Ride out on a rail - S.
05/28/03
- Head Right - S. 05/28/03
- It's not over until the fat lady
sings - Sue 05/27/03
- Staged events - Mei 05/27/03
- Who's your daddy? - Jim
05/27/03
- "Time out of mind"
- Beth 05/27/03
- Useful idiots - ESC 05/27/03
- Phrase origin - Neville Henry
05/27/03
- On a Fishing Expedition - MM
05/27/03
- Bought the farm - Tom
05/27/03
- Keeping up with the joneses
- Dorothy 05/27/03
- Sufficient bite to be meaningful
- Celia 05/27/03
- Brackets, parentheses, this forum
and my screen - janes_kid 05/26/03
- 'to get in on the ground' -
Marcia Mohr 05/26/03
- Look over - mm169 05/26/03
- Probusiness respectability -
Christine 05/26/03
- Roundup of news - Celia
05/26/03
- Such was likewise the case -
Mei 05/26/03
- The meaning of..... - Joanna
Oliva 05/26/03
- Loose cannon - R. Berg
05/26/03
- Need your help ! - Roy
05/26/03
- Heavens To Murgatroid - Kathy
05/25/03
- Global Village and Global Commonns
- gary miller 05/25/03
- Femme fatale - EE 05/24/03
- Slipstream - Fred 05/24/03
- Dry as a Bone - Rita
05/24/03
- Editorial fariness or balance
- Celia 05/24/03
- Was popeye a sailor or a coastgaurd
- rigger03 05/24/03
- Phrase question - Mike Mcginnley
05/23/03
- Complusive television - Purple
05/23/03
- Impartiality - Mei 05/23/03
- All but one - Celia 05/23/03
- Skinamarink (sp?) - Tim McEvilly
05/23/03
- Can not - mm169 05/23/03
- Wind dummy - ESC 05/23/03
- Wachowskian? - ESC 05/23/03
- Raise red flags? - Nina
05/23/03
- Wildcat strike - Sax
05/23/03
- Origination - Sue Clements
05/23/03
- In Like Flynn - Doug
05/22/03
- A bun in the Oven - Maggie
05/22/03
- 'Tickety-boo'. - Bryan McEnroe
05/22/03
- Hard Lines - James Briggs
05/22/03
- Instant messaging lingo - ESC
05/22/03
- Davey Jones's Locker - Sax
05/22/03
- My foot - EE 05/22/03
- Sooner or later you'll ask yourself...
- ESC 05/21/03
- "Intention Tremors"
- Bella 05/21/03
- Teenager to Teen - Brian from
Shawnee 05/21/03
- All Shook Up - ESC 05/21/03
- What a wonderful world mondegreen
- tdubs 05/21/03
- A scene from an English Comedy
- Miri Barak 05/21/03
- Lowbrow - Sax 05/20/03
- Nothing flat - S. Ryan
05/20/03
- Fly in your ointment - Marlene
05/20/03
- Another phrase - mary
05/20/03
- Anyone ... they ... - Fred
05/20/03
- A chain is only as strong as its
weakest link - Rosebud 05/20/03
- Dont put all your eggs in one basket
- Rosebud 05/20/03
- Raven's-blooded - Patty
05/20/03
- Believe only half... - ESC
05/20/03
- A sign I saw - don 05/19/03
- Help pleasr - richardhowell
05/19/03
- Idle hands - S. Ryan 05/19/03
- By the way... just love the new colour
scheme - TheFallen 05/19/03
- 'diet' as in to convene a congress
- Lotg 05/19/03
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