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- Poem - los stotter 08/03/01
- Origin of "a drop in the ocean"
- Ceslstee 08/03/01
- Wheeler-Dealer - Q 08/02/01
- Origin of "tomato can" - Alan
Kopecki 08/02/01
- Tailspin - Sam 08/02/01
- Pulling my leg - Thornton 08/01/01
- Gold - Pete 08/01/01
- Middle finger - pepper 08/01/01
- Bring down House - King 08/01/01
- To have a KIP - Noel Harvey 08/01/01
- Re: Massage the message - Christy T.
08/01/01
- Gods, stones - Tiko 07/31/01
- Famous Cliches - Anne-Marie Lister
07/31/01
- Revenge is a dish best served cold - katherine
selby 07/30/01
- Anal-retentive - definition? - Jim Leedom
07/30/01
- "Now he's poisoning my well" - Patty
07/30/01
- On Point - Sam 07/28/01
- Laughing hard - Stephen 07/28/01
- Help!! Does anyone know . . . - Sara Jane
07/27/01
- The skinny - DJ 07/27/01
- Truck farm/truck farmer - DJ 07/27/01
- New York Minute - Sam 07/27/01
- Cutting it close - A Parcel 07/27/01
- They booked. - Dorothy 07/26/01
- "House-mouse summer"? - tom
07/26/01
- The full S.P. - Lisa Cutler 07/25/01
- A Book of phrase origins... - Robert Kostevc
07/25/01
- Queen... - Tiko 07/23/01
- "Go slow now, go fast later" -- Asian
origin? - jason 07/23/01
- Translation - Jérémie 07/23/01
- Triumph of Hope Over Experience - Hollyw
07/23/01
- Emporer's new clothes - Mark 07/22/01
- Jove - Steve 07/21/01
- La-La Land - daniel 07/21/01
- Fortnight - Leah 07/20/01
- Update of "don't like the way you comb your
hair" - mortimer 07/19/01
- Smack dab - Brent Geppert 07/19/01
- Origin of 'Queer Street' - James Briggs
07/19/01
- Sweet Jelly Roll - Clare 07/18/01
- Phrases meaning "not too bright".
- Cindy 07/17/01
- Undertone of Anger - John Pursel 07/17/01
- First come, first serve(d) - Flavia
07/17/01
- Phrase Meaning - John Pursel 07/17/01
- Punch up the bracket - mike caban 07/16/01
- "She's close to going over your head"
- Karine 07/16/01
- Shield and buckler - Sue Cutter 07/16/01
- Florida room - Dave Hamill 07/16/01
- Origin of phrase - Christine Brooke
07/15/01
- There's ice in his/her veins - mortimer
07/15/01
- Dropped your pocket - sean talbot 07/15/01
- Bull's eye - HJR 07/13/01
- Re: Fast and Furious-origin - Kathleen
Hitt 07/12/01
- "Cut some slack" - M.Mazzucco
07/12/01
- Shrinking Violet or A Shrinking Violet - Mrs.
Bell 07/12/01
- Type of twin - Margie 07/12/01
- Origins of "No Mean Task" - Brian
Murphy 07/12/01
- I need a quote source - Tom Mentzer
07/11/01
- Beating the "tar" out of someone
- brent geppert 07/11/01
- Not attached to one's elbow - rich h
07/11/01
- White heat of technology - Martin Turner
07/11/01
- Buzzard Picnic - J. Freund 07/11/01
- Up and Atom/Adam - Barry 07/10/01
- Rolling stone gathers no mass. - Ab Ran
07/10/01
- "The Professor & the Madman"
- Bruce Kahl 07/10/01
- Come to grips with - M. Mazzucco 07/10/01
- Tyranny of the discreet allusion - Donald
Albert Hatch 07/09/01
- White noise - Q 07/09/01
- Going spare - mikken 07/09/01
- Alarm clocks going off - Clarice 07/08/01
- Eyes bigger than the stomach - Patty
07/08/01
- Found phrase: fleecing the Lord - ESC
07/08/01
- "Blowing smoke" revisited - R.
Berg 07/07/01
- An "old saying" - Nyla Holman
07/07/01
- Grinn + Barret and other funny intersections
- M.Mazzucco 07/06/01
- 'How did America get its name?' - James
Briggs 07/05/01
- After a fashion - S. Mikell 07/05/01
- Explanation of "double or nothing".
- Debbie Taylor 07/05/01 ( 1)
- Spot on - Andrew 07/05/01
- Re: Phrase - Mary 07/05/01
- Re: Phrase - Mary 07/05/01
- Cute As A Button? - G. Fleming 07/05/01
- Phrases and proverbs - Faryal 07/05/01
- Origin of a phrase. - Russell Sage
07/05/01
- Hump Day - TM 07/04/01
- Kill the King - Michael Solger 07/03/01
- Honestus Adolencus - Marek Duchna 07/03/01
- Lost your marbles - Rick 07/02/01
- P.U. THAT STINKS - michaelj 07/02/01
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Michael
Roseman 07/02/01
- "Everything But the Kitchen Sink"
- Helsha 07/02/01
- Pinstripe? - Denise 07/01/01
- Found phrase - Plumped for - ESC 07/01/01
- F Y I - Bruce Kahl 07/01/01
- Forked tongue - Richard 06/30/01
- We really took a bath on that - mortimer
06/30/01
- The phrase Off the wall - Chris Miller
06/29/01
- Does anybody know the orgin of the given phrase?
- faizal 06/29/01
- This has been killin me... - jim 06/29/01
- What's the phrase? - Sharon 06/29/01
- 'A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men'
- Tom Nuttall 06/28/01
- Eye for an Eye - Jim Henley 06/28/01
- Won't feed the bulldog - Joel Stroup
06/26/01
- Living over the brush - Tim 06/25/01
- I am my own "crown of thorns" -
Sherri 06/25/01
- Patty - Enlish-language expressions post-literacy
06/24/01
- Honey-moon in June - Patty 06/23/01
- Hail, hail, the gang's all here. - Mark
06/23/01
- Bunky - R. Berg 06/22/01
- A Stones Throw - Jean Brierley 06/22/01
- "Hard upon you" - Jonny Lever
06/22/01
- Carrickfergus - Colin 06/21/01
- To get a bit suss on something - Patty
06/21/01
- "Sky begins to fall" means??? -
Jonny Lever 06/21/01
- Humpty Dumpty - Wendy Dwyer 06/20/01
- Off the hook - P. Frymier 06/20/01
- A horse, a horse - Tiko 06/20/01
- Collective Noun for a group of Humans - Louise
06/20/01
- Need help - tylar 06/20/01
- You too. Me too. - Yone 06/20/01
- Dollars to donuts - Kristy Perry 06/19/01
- Down the rabbit hole - Patty 06/19/01
- Dead men's shoes - Lisa 06/19/01
- Show stopper - Bingo 06/19/01
- Raked over the coals - Linda 06/19/01
- Phrase "all but" - Sauerkraut
06/19/01
- Mondegreens - james briggs 06/18/01
- The answer - Q 06/18/01
- Cyclop - Encyclopedia What's the connection?
- Robi Guttman 06/18/01
- Baby, bathwater - Nancy 06/18/01
- "Man, he's got a real bratittude!"
- Patty 06/17/01
- Giving someone the high hat - Patty
06/17/01
- Definition of phrase - Beverly Linton
06/17/01
- Stock in trade - mortimer 06/16/01
- Blowing smoke up my ass - curious 06/16/01
- Country mile - john morris 06/16/01
- Wooden nickel - Jennifer Kolb 06/15/01
- Many (or more than one) arrows in your quiver
- Peter 06/15/01 ( 2)
- Lace curtains - John 06/15/01
- Phrase meanings (and origins) for: - John
06/15/01
- Root for - Neil 06/15/01
- Fishing trip - Patty 06/14/01
- Once more unto the Breach - Paul Aynsley
06/14/01
- New site: askoxford.com - R. Berg 06/13/01
- 'legends of the fall' meaning ,pls help -
klaus kadur 06/13/01
- Meaning of "FINGER IN THE EYE" -
Jenny 06/13/01
- Meaning of "Lip Service" - Mariano
06/13/01
- What is meant by the folowing: - nad
06/12/01
- The origion of "hang them out to dry"
- brad brown 06/12/01
- White lie - Pyramid 06/11/01
- Phrases - myrtie 06/11/01
- Phrase - prizongard 06/11/01
- "Beast of two backs" - Mgnat
06/11/01
- Origin of "FOB" (Fresh Off the Boat)--
anyone know? - Alison N. 06/11/01
- MAKE LOVE NOT WAR--What is the Origin? - Brian
Neil Burg 06/11/01
- A man needs an attribution like a fish needs water
- Gary Martin 06/11/01
- Dead man walking - Harry Bezemer 06/11/01
- Bleeding-edge technology - ESC 06/10/01
- Phrase/Activity Definition - Bob Meadows
06/09/01
- Agree to disagree - patti 06/09/01
- On the Q.T. - MrMurdstone 06/09/01
- Poisened pup - greg 06/08/01
- Definition of 'down-to-earth - Brad
06/08/01
- God is dead - Agy 06/08/01
- A hard working people - K Yone 06/08/01
- Swipe card to success - ESC 06/08/01
- Origin of phrase - jeff wingfield 06/07/01
- Urban legends - language - ESC 06/07/01
- Off pat & Off your own bat - Ed Addis
06/06/01
- Dreaming different dreams in the same bed -
Cea 06/06/01
- Meaning of "get along like a house on fire"
- Alison Pignolet 06/06/01
- Black over Will's Mother's - Barry Hall
06/05/01
- A quotation - c.dias 06/05/01
- Meanings new phrases - A. Raghunathan
06/05/01
- Off the wall - Maggie King 06/05/01
- Origins please of "As daft as a brush"
- Hugh Janney 06/05/01
- Who is John Doe? - Eckard 06/05/01
- On a hiding to nothing - trish hurst
06/04/01
- I have nothing to declare but my genius.......
- Natalie 06/04/01
- Origin of 'up to scratch' - Mitchell
06/04/01
- Pick up your stitches - mortimer 06/04/01
- Kilroy was here - Peter Miller 06/03/01
- Earliest use of "you send me" - natura1ist
06/03/01
- "Well, dog my cats!" - Patty
06/03/01
- Say Uncle - Paula 06/03/01
- Son of a Bitch - R Burbage 06/03/01
- Gangsters. . . - Pamela Griffin 06/02/01
- The heat is on - ESC 06/02/01
- Archive numbers - James Briggs 06/02/01
- Small potato - James Briggs 06/02/01
- Origin of saying - Tony Robinson 06/02/01
- New list started - earlier postings archived
- Gary Martin 06/02/01
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