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- A bill of goods - Patty 12/19/99 (1 reply)
- Coon Ages - Janella L. 12/19/99 (1 reply)
- Progidal son - nmatte 12/19/99 (1 reply)
- Smile like a cheshire cat - Stella Sach 12/17/99 (3 replies)
- Local derby - Bob 12/16/99 (3 replies)
- What is the origin of this phrase? Nobody knows. - Boyd DuPree 12/15/99 (1 reply)
- When push comes to shove - Gregg 12/09/99 (5 replies)
- Phrase - david meckley 12/06/99 (1 reply)
- Cowlick or cowslick - Aaron Price 11/30/99 (2 replies)
- Expression derivation - Richard Stock 11/26/99 (2 replies)
- Rules were made to be broken - Katy 11/24/99 (1 reply)
- How's your father - Ben Brick 11/24/99 (1 reply)
- The Big Cahuna - Nancy 11/24/99 (3 replies)
- Phrase - Jim Walls 11/23/99 (2 replies)
- That's Life - Brooke 11/20/99 (1 reply)
- Dirty in the Garden - Aki 11/20/99 (2 replies)
- Having to please everybody - Jerry Vaughn 11/20/99 (1 reply)
- Only the good die young. - donhabel 11/19/99 (1 reply)
- Be afraid, be very afraid. - Bob 11/18/99 (1 reply)
- Pushing to train - Angie Rosewell 11/16/99 (3 replies)
- Go and jump in a lake - julie 11/11/99 (1 reply)
- To Serve and Protect? - Donna M. Wells 11/09/99 (1 reply)
- Down the Pipe or Down the Pike - WEL 11/09/99 (1 reply)
- Great White....? - Cyndy 11/07/99 (4 replies)
- "I'm gonna have a fit and fall in it" - Scott 11/05/99 (2 replies)
- Origin of An apple a day keeps the doctor away - Gordon Ueland 11/05/99 (1 reply)
- High Falutin - Steven Kennedy 11/03/99 (2 replies)
- A land fit for heroes/donkeys led by lions - Jane Lucas 11/02/99 (3 replies)
- Cork and floating - rosewell 11/02/99 (1 reply)
- An ounce of prevention is a pound of cure - Jennifer Shweky 11/01/99 (1 reply)
- Chasing rainbows - wendywood77 10/28/99 (1 reply)
- To the victor goes the spoils - Julie Candau 10/27/99 (1 reply)
- In the nick of time - Nathan 10/25/99 (3 replies)
- Catch my drift - marty 10/24/99 (1 reply)
- Who wrote - Catherine cochrane 10/23/99 (1 reply)
- School of fish - Jim Wiebe 10/11/99 (1 reply)
- Run of the Mill - Helen 10/10/99 (4 replies)
- On the ropes (meaning and synonyms replies) - Jerry Vaughn 9/30/99 (2 replies)
- Fickle hand of fate - Rosie 9/30/99 (1 reply)
- You can't have your cake and eat it too - sarah 9/29/99 (2 replies)
- Ten to the dozen - David Ingram 9/29/99 (1 reply)
- Trip the light fantastic - Nicole Braginton 9/25/99 (2 replies)
- Shoot from the hip - Ayub 9/23/99 (1 reply)
- Tongue in Cheek - Renee Pouvreau 9/23/99 (4 replies)
- King's Contrivence - Marcus 9/21/99 (1 reply)
- Not on your life! - joel 9/15/99 (2 replies)
- As fit as a flea - Arnie Hamilton 9/13/99 (2 replies)
- As keen as mustard - Kylie Crouch 2/04/98 (2 replies)
- American phrases
- Spitting Image
- Lose one's shirt
- Knuckle Down
- Green with envy
- Touch base
- Jumpin' jehosephat
- Fly off the Handle
- Taking the mick/mickey/michael
- Witch's Tit
- Forewarned is forearmed
- Dixieland
- Waiting
- Witch's Tit
- Stumbling block?
- Balling the jack
- "damn your eyes"
- Excuse me in advance...
- Hedge your bet
- Blue Murder
- She who must be obeyed
- Grin
- Dead on...
- Rod McKuen
- You've made your bed...
- Following paraphrase
- "push the envelope"
- Mojo & the blues
- Chicago
- Mad dogs and englishmen
- Blow George