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- Lark Mirror - Joe 10/November/03
(1)
- Democracy&quango - Sharon 10/November/03
(2)
- Red Shirting - Brian from Shawnee
10/November/03 (2)
- Expressions in MinRep, p.2 - Shkval
09/November/03 (2)
- Burglar-time - Miguel 09/November/03
(1)
- Horse play - Henry 09/November/03
(2)
- Anybody to help me out ? - Michael
09/November/03 (4)
- Again on grandma - sphinx 09/November/03
(1)
- Re: Joe Hayes - Dan 09/November/03
(0)
- Joe Hayes - Dan 09/November/03
(2)
- Touch and go - Phillip 09/November/03
(1)
- Pick your brains - Lotg
08/November/03 (4)
- Catch catcher's can? - R. Colwell
08/November/03 (6)
- Garbage in and garbage out - jennita
08/November/03 (4)
- Grandma - sphinx 08/November/03
(2)
- Who said this? - gayle 08/November/03
(1)
- Brick on the wall - JUA 08/November/03
(1)
- Family Planning and Birth Control - sphinx
08/November/03 (1)
- The origin of "hit the jackpot"
- Simon Su 08/November/03 (1)
- The "Finger" - Kurt Iffrig
08/November/03 (3)
- Coming home with a wet sail - Daniel Slattery
07/November/03 (1)
- Master the impulse - p-u-k 07/November/03
(1)
- Re: Chicken in a basket - Mike Batke
07/November/03 (0)
- Wired for sound - M. Romanow 07/November/03
(2)
- Backs to the wall - Eamon Younis 07/November/03
(1)
- A word to the wise - Ambhee 07/November/03
(4)
- Any clue about... - Sphinx 07/November/03
(10)
- Barking up the wrong tree - Sax 07/November/03
(2)
- "Can't dance", meaning - Paul
07/November/03 (5)
- Unicorns and Virgins - Ward Fredericks
07/November/03 (2)
- Etymology of the planetary names... - Wade
MacMorrighan 06/November/03 (4)
- Why are weasals and sacks associated? - Deb
06/November/03 (4)
- Yorkies - It's not for Girls - Brian from
Shawnee 06/November/03 (1)
- European scientist - Brian from Shawnee
06/November/03 (15)
- "I don't know its Chinese name or/nor its
English name." - ABC 06/November/03 (3)
- "Space, the final frontier..." -
frank laurino 06/November/03 (1)
- Funny Papers - Pam.L. 06/November/03
(4)
- Foul language - Shkval 06/November/03
(6)
- Cart blanche - Saxon 06/November/03
(2)
- Great Wall of China - Priya 06/November/03
(8)
- Using your noodle - Word Camel 06/November/03
(2)
- Meaning? - Autumn 05/November/03
(3)
- HELP! Need a quote as good as this! - Leon
05/November/03 (4)
- Language Equations / Ditloids - Barbara
Robinson 05/November/03 (2)
- Meanings - Priya 05/November/03
(1)
- Idiomatic expressions in "Minority Report"
- Shkval 04/November/03 (12)
- 'is it not the ....' - sprock 04/November/03
(4)
- He booked - Dororthy 04/November/03
(6)
- Argy Bargy - dorothy 04/November/03
(7)
- Tussie mussie - ESC 03/November/03
(0)
- What does this mean? - Terri 03/November/03
(1)
- Origin of specific word use. - Bruce
03/November/03 (3)
- Sucking canal water - ESC 03/November/03
(0)
- Put up end investment - mysterious combination
- ilia 03/November/03 (1)
- Phrase meaning... - al 03/November/03
(2)
- Hear hear! - Lotg 03/November/03
(1)
- Group - ABC 03/November/03 (7)
- What Napoleon said about China waking up -
EE 03/November/03 (1)
- Benchmark - Lotg 02/November/03
(1)
- "Shuffle off this mortal COIL" (Shakespeare)
- Bruce 02/November/03 (2)
- Little pitchers have big ears - Jane
02/November/03 (1)
- "Steal you blind" - George
02/November/03 (1)
- Steal you blind - George 02/November/03
(2)
- Origin of "hair of the dog" - Ernest.Dreer.
02/November/03 (1)
- Slayer Slang: A 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Lexicon
- Anders 02/November/03 (2)
- " the sam hill " - woody
02/November/03 (2)
- "...but I'd have to kill you." -
Dooley Tiled 01/November/03 (1)
- Welcome To The Fold - ivansevil 01/November/03
(3)
- Non person - Alan 01/November/03
(7)
- Running the gamut - meagan 01/November/03
(3)
- Are there any more states? - shobana
01/November/03 (1)
- Colour me shocked - Anders 01/November/03
(2)
- An Early 1900's American Poem - Robin
01/November/03 (3)
- Calling for a Huey - Bex 01/November/03
(2)
- Word Spy's phonetics - and grammar - Anders
01/November/03 (9)
- Warrant cards - Pete Vandenberg 31/October/03
(4)
- Chip in - Lotg 31/October/03
(1)
- This game is a "shoe in" for the Lions
- Dipsomaniac 31/October/03 (2)
- Dressed up to the nines. - Penfold
31/October/03 (1)
- Trying to find out..... - Charley 31/October/03
(3)
- All Get Out - El Heffe 31/October/03
(1)
- Bull's Eye - Bradley Kidd 31/October/03
(1)
- Offer an olive branch - Eamon Younis
30/October/03 (1)
- "Raise the bar" - Dipsomaniac
30/October/03 (2)
- Monkey on my back - Tonie Gurley 30/October/03
(3)
- Halcyon Days - Nik 30/October/03
(1)
- Mind your p's and q's - sw 30/October/03
(3)
- QWERTY - ESC 30/October/03 (0)
- Pleonasm - SR 30/October/03
(1)
- Moving envelope - Anders 30/October/03
(5)
- Sparlash - John Spittal 30/October/03
(1)
- Goose liver - LOF 30/October/03
(4)
- GUILDING THE LILLY - FRANK CLARK 30/October/03
(3)
- 'sticks and stones' - jacqueline lloyd
29/October/03 (6)
- Brights - Word Camel 29/October/03
(3)
- What is the meaning of "have a hollow ring
(to)"? - Mauricio Segura 29/October/03 (3)
- Advertisement/commercial - Lotg
29/October/03 (1)
- Two-fold, three-fold, n-fold - bb 29/October/03
(2)
- SLOPs - Shae 29/October/03 (15)
- Those vs them - Lotg
29/October/03 (1)
- Visit your sins upon others doors - Anwar
29/October/03 (2)
- Come on down! - ESC 28/October/03
(5)
- Thick in the head and strong in the back -
daniela 27/October/03 (2)
- "Ontogeny recapituales phylogeny"
- Ahem 27/October/03 (4)
- "Even a pig finds a truffel now and then"
- Ward Fredericks 27/October/03 (6)
- "Harder than a gravediggers heart"
- Ward Fredericks 27/October/03 (2)
- Twenty Four - Eighty - Kristoffer 27/October/03
(2)
- Tosser origin? - Word Camel 27/October/03
(4)
- Old bag of tricks - hecan 26/October/03
(1)
- Talk the leg off an iron pot - Lap of the
Goddess 26/October/03 (5)
- Origins of the word "shafted" -
brian 26/October/03 (7)
- "Live-in lover" - Yvonne
26/October/03 (2)
- Eat your cake..... - Thomas 26/October/03
(2)
- O.R.? - blymb 26/October/03
(1)
- Stringy person - p-u-k 26/October/03
(6)
- "Okay" from Japan? - Pawn
26/October/03 (8)
- Phrase - frank 26/October/03
(1)
- Having a go, having a lend, been had - Lap
of the Goddess 26/October/03 (2)
- Going for a gander - Lotg
25/October/03 (1)
- What do kids read now? - Lotg
25/October/03 (3)
- North o' the border - Gary 25/October/03
(0)
- Refer to - sphinx 25/October/03
(3)
- Tight? fight tears? - sphinx 25/October/03
(3)
- It's a black art - Bob Yeomans 25/October/03
(1)
- Inquire - Arslan 25/October/03
(2)
- He's got designs on her - Lotg
25/October/03 (2)
- Why are we fascinated with the criminal, evil
and macabre? Be warned, this is a big one, pour yourself a coffee. - Lap
of the Goddess 24/October/03 (9)
- "Sorry" - Ward Fredericks
24/October/03 (1)
- I want to retire in 10 years. - EE
24/October/03 (2)
- His Excellency and His Honorable - pasiree
24/October/03 (2)
- Help - jandolph 24/October/03
(3)
- Suckers.... - mo 24/October/03
(1)
- Phrase definition - jackwqhat 24/October/03
(6)
- Word origin - Jamboree - Tom Conley
24/October/03 (4)
- T-shirt slogan - ESC 24/October/03
(2)
- Donkey - Rude Boy 24/October/03
(1)
- Concorde: the plane that changed British spelling.
- James Briggs 24/October/03 (1)
- Asleep at the switch - Sax 24/October/03
(6)
- Meaning - Priya 24/October/03
(1)
- From your lips to God's ears - R. Berg
23/October/03 (3)
- Hot and cold in the same breadth - hecan
23/October/03 (2)
- Don't let's" said Kathleen - Miri
Barak 23/October/03 (5)
- Cool as a cucumber - Sax 23/October/03
(2)
- The Morning Line - David 23/October/03
(2)
- Silly stuff - Lotg 23/October/03
(7)
- Accents - Lotg 23/October/03
(12)
- Take your cue - Lotg
23/October/03 (1)
- Scrambling - Lotg 23/October/03
(2)
- Lord Love A Duck - Steph Truitt 22/October/03
(8)
- "Oh for Pete's sake!"? - Jen
22/October/03 (1)
- Origin of Santa saying Ho Ho Ho . - Santa
Don 22/October/03 (6)
- Deep Pockets - Randal Lemmon 22/October/03
(9)
- Fixed - Melanie 22/October/03
(3)
- Monkeydoodle the whole thing - hecan
22/October/03 (1)
- Okay - cevdet yagci 22/October/03
(1)
- "On a related note" - Miri Barak
22/October/03 (2)
- Old soul - r c hollenbeck 22/October/03
(1)
- Dover test - ESC 21/October/03
(1)
- "On the Lighter Side" - Jeff
Lambert 21/October/03 (1)
- Smoochie boochie - tommey 21/October/03
(2)
- Origin of "Here's looking at you"?
- hiro 21/October/03 (2)
- Fountain pen and pen - sphinx 21/October/03
(2)
- See and yet - sphinx 21/October/03
(3)
- QUESTION... - NIKKI 21/October/03
(1)
- TMI Too Much Information origin? - Word
Camel 20/October/03 (3)
- Playing in an Unfenced Paddock - Lap of
the Goddess 20/October/03 (5)
- Killing time 'till time kills you - Barney
20/October/03 (1)
- Cut the air with a knife - Lotg
20/October/03 (3)
- Smithereens - Bob Rollins 20/October/03
(2)
- "Well, duh!" - informal linguistic accuracy
- Anders 20/October/03 (18)
- Asking for some help - Ana Gimenez
20/October/03 (4)
- "Tying a dish-cloth to your tail"
- Hanni 20/October/03 (2)
- "I hate white rabbits" - Ginger
20/October/03 (1)
- Knife fight in a ditch - ESC 20/October/03
(0)
- Formal vs. informal speech - Word Camel
20/October/03 (2)
- "Thanks to the moon" - Lexi
20/October/03 (4)
- Yeoman's job - yankel 20/October/03
(1)
- Lament of the dypthong - Lotg
19/October/03 (4)
- Aegrotat - Lotg 19/October/03
(3)
- Eek out a living - Lotg
19/October/03 (1)
- In a passage on Columbus - sphinx 19/October/03
(2)
- Could you explain 'machinery' here? - sphinx
19/October/03 (4)
- The worlds your oyster - Dee 19/October/03
(4)
- The English Language - James Briggs
19/October/03 (0)
- Laughing up his (your, my) sleeve. - Loring
19/October/03 (1)
- Who said these impossible words and, please, when?
- Christopher Moran 19/October/03 (3)
- 'Got the hyacinths' - does this sound familiar?
- Hanni 19/October/03 (4)
- The writing's on the wall - Lap of the
Goddess 18/October/03 (1)
- Phrase - lamont 18/October/03
(2)
- Sun Tzu - Bruce Kahl 18/October/03
(1)
- Albatross around your neck - Sax 18/October/03
(2)
- Boots full of feet - Miri Barak 18/October/03
(3)
- That "leg over" thing - pdianek
18/October/03 (3)
- Four! - Louis Irwin 18/October/03
(2)
- Phrase origin???? - Wm. Durkin 17/October/03
(1)
- "To re-invent the wheel" -- good extensions?
- joel 17/October/03 (3)
- Make a virtue of necessity - Phillip R.
McDonald 17/October/03 (1)
- Silver bullet - M. 17/October/03
(3)
- Origin of old saying - Roger 17/October/03
(2)
- It is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God - Marijn
de Klerk 17/October/03 (3)
- Meaning of "for good and valuable consideration..."
- Wojtek 17/October/03 (2)
- The whole shabang - Lotg
17/October/03 (2)
- I want to say my "peace" (or is it "piece"?)
- Sagarian 17/October/03 (1)
- "Keep tabs on" - treborf
16/October/03 (4)
- Whole enchilada - douglas grove 16/October/03
(5)
- Spelling - Elaine 16/October/03
(4)
- WEDDING PHRASES - LUCILLE 16/October/03
(2)
- Roses are red. Violets are blue... - EE
16/October/03 (6)
- Please differ: entire total whole - sphinx
16/October/03 (6)
- Oh, and yob, too - pdianek 16/October/03
(2)
- Meaning of saying - Sue J 16/October/03
(1)
- Could you explain these words: head ; side
- sphinx 16/October/03 (4)
- I wash my hands of the matter - Elizabeth
16/October/03 (3)
- That's a wrap - Callan Bond 16/October/03
(5)
- Getting a leg over (British) - pdianek
16/October/03 (0)
- Websites - Anne 16/October/03
(4)
- Phrase history - barbara-jean slopey
15/October/03 (1)
- Give him an inch & he'll take a mile & Overstepping your bounds - Lotg 15/October/03
(3)
- Booya! - Spanky 15/October/03
(9)
- Turned the corner - Esther Wareham 15/October/03
(1)
- I dunno about you sometimes - littlebluhair
15/October/03 (3)
- Bohos - ESC 15/October/03 (5)
- "You're something else" - LiTtLe
bLu hAiR 15/October/03 (1)
- Co-ed - sphinx 15/October/03
(3)
- IFPI - sphinx 15/October/03 (2)
- In Remarks by the US President Bush on the Loss
of Space Shuttle Columbia - sphinx 15/October/03 (3)
- Beat your swords into plowshares - Sax
15/October/03 (4)
- Shit Hits the Fan - Anthony 14/October/03
(2)
- Sayings - Linda 14/October/03
(2)
- By the skin of one's teeth - anabel
14/October/03 (1)
- Cover Song - jt 14/October/03
(3)
- Fish nets Hen - Gary 14/October/03
(2)
- Bite the bullet - Amédée 14/October/03
(3)
- Bite your but - arcain 14/October/03
(3)
- He died with his boots on - Ron Thomas
14/October/03 (7)
- Aphorisms from Benjamin Franklin - Adrian
14/October/03 (4)
- "It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it"
- Gord Smedley 13/October/03 (2)
- Cold turkey - Sax 13/October/03
(1)
- Slings and arrows. - melanie 13/October/03
(3)
- "The cheese is getting binding" -
Ward Fredericks 13/October/03 (6)
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