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- Help with an expressions... - Elizabeth
C. 01/September/03
- Proverb - fanny 01/September/03
- "Accept Jesus into your heart"
- Warren Johnson 31/August/03
- Find one's voice - sphinx 31/August/03
- There But for the Grace of God go I
- Dave Brett 31/August/03
- Origin and history of world "love"
- Jonas 31/August/03
- What does “bay” mean
in an Emergency room? - Kashima 31/August/03
- About the film Finding Forrester -
sphinx 30/August/03
- Translation of George Braque - Bobbie
30/August/03
- More fun than a barrel of monkey's
- SpudBoy 29/August/03
- Good for the Goose, good for the Gander
- Jason (a canuck) 29/August/03
- "Rear its ugly head"? -
anne 29/August/03
- Again: "Called Million..."
- sphinx 29/August/03
- Everything happens for a reason? -
Gvr4in 29/August/03
- Idioms that mean "be intrigued"
- Mauricio Segura 29/August/03
- As of, as at, at - Mauricio Segura
29/August/03
- Few phrases plz. - kathaab 28/August/03
- Agha Shahid Poem - Anna B 28/August/03
- "That's all she wrote" origin?
- Word Camel 28/August/03
- In films... - sphinx 28/August/03
- Post consumer content - sphinx
28/August/03
- Toast - Lotg 28/August/03
- Can anybody tell me the meaning of this
phrase??? - Mahima 28/August/03
- Burn baby burn - elp 27/August/03
- Coal cracker - ESC 27/August/03
- Coal Cracker - Brian from Shawnee
27/August/03
- Doom Pussy - Williams B. Gilmore
27/August/03
- What does doing something for blood mean
- Brian 27/August/03
- C. - sphinx 27/August/03
- Lost volume to - sphinx 27/August/03
- Marco Polo's book and more - sphinx
27/August/03
- A New Euphanism - Egg 26/August/03
- Found phrase - going to prayer meeting
- ESC 26/August/03
- Found phrase - bucket shakers - ESC
26/August/03
- What is a "filk"? - ESC
26/August/03
- Crap shoot - rich lyon 26/August/03
- Origin of Saying - Gil Thomas
25/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab 25/August/03
- The pitter patter of little feet -
Gambrill 25/August/03
- Ain't my milky way. - Richard
25/August/03
- Slide - Tamio 25/August/03
- 'dead in the water', again - GPP
25/August/03
- The sins of the fathers shall be visited
upon the sons - Soulsellerman 24/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab 24/August/03
- Which poem? - Gordon Williams
24/August/03
- Hell's Half Acre - William Wang
24/August/03
- Flowers - maddi 24/August/03
- Direction - sphinx 24/August/03
- Learning recipes? - sphinx 24/August/03
- More than (typo corrected) - tk
24/August/03
- Run/Go like the Clappers - Gail
Hogben 24/August/03
- Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop
- Tom 23/August/03
- The title of which, which title - Tom
23/August/03
- Find out what the dog is all about - is
it an idiom - Oleg 23/August/03
- Less of - sphinx 23/August/03
- Conscience - Ed Wade 22/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab afandi
22/August/03
- A phrase in Hay Fever by Noel Coward
- kate Newby 22/August/03
- You are so full of it - zandera
22/August/03
- Academia - Neo 22/August/03
- Not a minute too soon - sphinx
22/August/03
- "Not that I know of" - sphinx
22/August/03
- Dead in the water - GPP 22/August/03
- Shave and a haircut - Anthony Mendoza
22/August/03
- Wedding bells - sam 22/August/03
- Little or a little - tak 22/August/03
- Obliged/obligated - Lotg
22/August/03
- Tea's Up - Lotg
22/August/03
- ...motion of the ocean. - twells
22/August/03
- Wording? - Tao 22/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab 21/August/03
- Please help me with this dialogue about
cribbage. - Kashima 21/August/03
- On a silver platter - Chris
21/August/03
- Creek don't rise - Todd Davis
21/August/03
- Partied lots but can't complain about it!
- Alice in Wonderingland 20/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab afandi
20/August/03
- Let me "put a bug in your ear"
- Deanie P. Terminie-Ros 20/August/03
- Sweet Knees - Gwen Glass 20/August/03
- Englishman - brian indge 20/August/03
- You lie like a dog - sonia 20/August/03
- Pig in a blanket - Frank Shants
20/August/03
- Go to Eleven - Brian from Shawnee
20/August/03
- And/or -> verb (pl/sing)? - Anders
20/August/03
- Distribution? - sphinx 20/August/03
- Sphinx - about Jespersen (calling
GPP) 20/August/03
- Cat's Ass - J. Brant Arseneau
19/August/03
- Up one's alley - ray 19/August/03
- Could anyone please tell me what 'a game
of chicken' means ? - guy 19/August/03
- What's the phrase? - English Learner
19/August/03
- Fool - Martha W. 19/August/03
- I need your help again- a questionnaire!
- Ste 19/August/03
- "Kidding" - woody
19/August/03
- Tear (someone) off a strip - kerina
19/August/03
- Blunt instrument - Matt Gillett
19/August/03
- Bed bugs - Michael randall 19/August/03
- Horses of... - Tiko 19/August/03
- To Sleep Perchance To Dream - Brian
Beazley 19/August/03
- "Navvy" (not sure about spelling)
- Doris 19/August/03
- Rubber Match ? - Terry Collingwood
19/August/03
- "Knock me up in the morning"
- Dr. Ward Fredericks 19/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab 18/August/03
- Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
- David Hitchin 18/August/03
- Help! - Ste 18/August/03
- Some questions to trouble you friends ;)
- sphinx 18/August/03
- Blow smoke up your butt - jp
18/August/03
- 'everyone/everybody and his/their uncle'
- GPP 18/August/03
- Making A Sissy - T. Justin White
18/August/03
- Be a crowd-puller - anka 17/August/03
- Wear my ring around your neck - Elvis song
- Andy 17/August/03
- Pink Slip - Ron 17/August/03
- Today's Phrases - kathaab afandi
17/August/03
- Power Outage - James Briggs
16/August/03
- We hardly knew ye - Andrew C
16/August/03
- Not necessary here to include email in
a post - GPP 16/August/03
- Trying to think of an English word meaning "double entendre" - GPP 16/August/03
- Meaning of a phrase - Christine
Moscato 15/August/03
- Mulling/milling around in NYC - ESC
15/August/03
- Thanks but no thanks - Bijo Alex
Thomas 15/August/03
- Heavy metal - Michael Jahn 15/August/03
- As far as or as long as - takeda
nobuhiro 15/August/03
- Silly season - Gary 15/August/03
- Savaged like a dead sheep - Paulinus
Barnes 15/August/03
- Looking for a poem "rub a dub dub"
- Clarence Holmes 15/August/03
- Everybody loves a lord - Ste
15/August/03
- First World--OED - R. Berg 15/August/03
- Where were you when the lights went out.
- Kimberly Whitworth 14/August/03
- "Speaks truth to power" -
Charles 14/August/03
- Obscure words - ESC 14/August/03
- French saying - taking salt to erase memory
- Patricia 14/August/03
- Good in parts - eric henderson
14/August/03
- Mop guy - sphinx 14/August/03
- Lynching - ESC 13/August/03
- New Phrases plz. - kathaab afandi
13/August/03
- Praise the child, and you make love to
the mother - Ste 13/August/03
- How much did you want to spend? - taked48
13/August/03
- Admit having / admit - takeda nobuhiro
13/August/03
- Searching for the origin of "like
s**t through a tin horn" - greg 13/August/03
- Sowing your wild oats? - Jeri
13/August/03
- Tickers and dekkos - DH
13/August/03
- One Yank and... - Kana 12/August/03
- Today's Phrases. - kathaab afandi
12/August/03
- "Charmed, I'm sure" - Orbis
12/August/03
- Dis? McJob? All in the new edition of Webster's
Dictionary... - Word Camel 12/August/03
- "Outside the box" - Bob
Yeomans 12/August/03
- "On the carpet" and "call
on carpet" - ASD 12/August/03
- Fair and balanced - trademark suit
- ESC 12/August/03
- Fetishization of facts - Celia
12/August/03
- Referential transparency - Mei
12/August/03
- Smashing - Torqy 12/August/03
- 'Here's mud in your eye', James Briggs
- GPP 12/August/03
- "High-handed" - Willard
11/August/03
- A few phrases plz. - kathaab afandi
11/August/03
- A woman's love - Stone 11/August/03
- Interesting questions - sphinx
11/August/03
- To keep a clean sheet - Weems
11/August/03
- What do you say this in English? -
Leslie 11/August/03
- Cliche:"don't look a gift horse in
the mouth" - martha 11/August/03
- One question - Celia 11/August/03
- At a time - Mei 11/August/03
- Ring around the roses - richard
10/August/03
- Railroad - dburd48778 10/August/03
- S.W.A.T. - AA 10/August/03
- Origin of? - Greg 10/August/03
- More phrases plz. - kathaab afandi
10/August/03
- What does this quote mean ( Aristotle)
- Sarah01EA 10/August/03
- Pale (with a capital P) as in "..Russian
Jews from the Pale.." - janes_kid 09/August/03
- Toodle loo - Stuart Goss 09/August/03
- "Run out the string" - Ward
A. Fredericks 09/August/03
- Snob - ESC 09/August/03
- God never shuts one door but he opens another
- Ste 09/August/03
- The science of one's project... - J.
Kim 09/August/03
- Phrase/saying - deb 09/August/03
- 5 phrases plz. - kathaab afandi
08/August/03
- Use of "after" - Doug
Seaton 08/August/03
- What does "Pick a finger"mean?
- Kashima 08/August/03
- "Nautical phrases containing the word
devil" - David Hurd 08/August/03
- Poets Day - Lewis 08/August/03
- Never fear the deep - jimmy bond
08/August/03
- 2 phrases - sphinx 08/August/03
- Expectedly unexpected - Astrid
07/August/03
- Can anybody translate some this high-brow
proverbs for me - max 07/August/03
- I'll swan - Duke 07/August/03
- Jock Tamson's Bairns - Roy 07/August/03
- Full English breakfast and Black pudding
- James Briggs 07/August/03
- SNOB - Adam Beacher 07/August/03
- Moving and need a "english" saying
to put on cake... - Sharon 07/August/03
- To have the 'blues'; to be 'green with
envy' - James Briggs 07/August/03
- Some phrases plz. - kathaab afandi
07/August/03
- Full English breakfast - janes_kid
06/August/03
- How long is a piece of string? - Grim
06/August/03
- English sentences - Zia 06/August/03
- " Cheek, Cheeky " - woody
06/August/03
- Phrase meaning - Fabiola 06/August/03
- "Sat a gee" - Bob K
06/August/03
- Help! - sphinx 06/August/03
- A FINE LINE. - Marcus 06/August/03
- Prepositions - sphinx 06/August/03
- Many things including the yearly bath
- Lotg 06/August/03
- Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass
monkey - Eduard von Fischer 05/August/03
- Bread-and-circus show - S. 05/August/03
- Jumpin' Jehosaphats - Jeff Jank
05/August/03
- Metrosexual - ESC 05/August/03
- Jacob's joint - JTF 05/August/03
- Going to see a man about a dog - Patrick
05/August/03
- The dismal science - S. 05/August/03
- Mine-run - S. 05/August/03
- Geordie sayings - Ron Neesam
05/August/03
- Most Rikki Tik - Bob Yeomans
04/August/03
- NASCAR dads - ESC 04/August/03
- Nicknames for cities - marian
04/August/03
- Origin and Meaning - Frank Callaway
04/August/03
- Smoking outside offices - Rich
02/August/03
- Get lost in the shuffle - abc
02/August/03
- "Take this lying down" - woody
01/August/03
- Singularly unique - Ilow Roque
01/August/03
- Question about question marks - ESC
01/August/03
- Peterpandemonium, kidult, middlescence
- Word Camel 01/August/03
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