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Rabbit and pork
Rack and ruin
Rack your brains
Rag, tag and bobtail
Raining cats and dogs
Raining stair-rods
Raise Cain
Raspberry tart
Raze to the ground
Rat arsed
Read between the lines
Read the riot act
Real McCoy
Red-handed (caught)
Red herring
Red in tooth and claw
Red letter day
Red rag to a bull - A new item
Red sky at night ...
Red tape
Reduplicated phrases
Religion is the opium of the people
Rhyme nor reason
Rhyming slang
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Richard the Third
Riddle wrapped up in an enigma - A
Riding shotgun
Riff-raff new item
Riley - the life of
Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
Ring down the curtain
Ring-fencing
Ring the changes
Rinky-dink
Rise and shine
Road less travelled - The
Road apples
Road rage
Roasted to a turn
Rob Peter to pay Paul new item
A rolling stone gathers no moss new item
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Rose by any other name would smell as sweet - A
Rose is a rose is a rose
Rosie Lea
Rough diamond
Round Robin new item
Route one
Rub of the green new item
Rule of thumb
Rum do
Rumpy-pumpy
Run a mile
Run amok
Run of the mill
Run out of steam
Run the gauntlet new item


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