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• "Just like downtown" - Jay 09/28/01
• Glass Onion - Michael 09/22/01
• Origin of "In a Pigs Eye" - M.McAlexander 09/17/01
• With God on Our Side - ESC 09/17/01
• I'm in a pickle on this one. - christine 09/16/01
• "Put some salt in it" - Patty 09/14/01
• Nineteen to the dozen - James Briggs 09/11/01
• On the Fritz - Bruce Kahl 09/10/01
• Rowing on the fens - Sergey 09/09/01
• Part and Parcel meaning - Diane 09/09/01
• Seinfeld primer - A fan 09/05/01
• Bread in the oven's done, people finish - Pam 09/05/01
• Time and money - kevin 09/04/01
• To Eaves drop - a 09/04/01
• Cottoneye joe - Nan 09/03/01
• Meaning of old phrases - Gloria 09/03/01
• Junk food - Sam 09/03/01
• It has legs - joel 09/02/01
• From one moment to the next - Denis 09/01/01
• Origin of "hell bent for leather" - garry 09/01/01
• HELL in a handbasket - Pati 08/31/01
• You can't have your cake and eat it too - Susan 08/31/01
• "Reverting to type" - Patty 08/30/01
• Gone forever - James Briggs 08/30/01
• Turn somebody loose - Jana 08/30/01
• Man about a horse - Dan 08/29/01
• Get your goat - Tracy Kiefer 09/27/01
• Grass - tia 08/26/01
• Meaning of Phrase, "Walking the Dog" - Karl Thurber 08/26/01
• Bruce Kahl: "Life is nurturing a garden" - joel 08/25/01
• Gingerlady - Colin 08/24/01
• No Hill For a Climber - Michele 08/23/01
• Looking for Source - Don G. 08/22/01
• "Hitch in your git-along"..type of phrase - Patty 08/22/01
• Get off your soapbox - Lesley M 08/17/01
• I'm trying to find the source of a quote. - sar 08/17/01
• What is meant by 'To this end' - Venkatesh 08/17/01
• Doo-dah - W.F. 08/16/01
• Mac Theory - Tiko 08/16/01
• Five by Five - Patrick Nelson 08/15/01
• "I appreciate it" - Bill 08/15/01
• Patty - Money talk: He owes me five large.... 08/14/01
• Brand new - Judy S 08/14/01
• As safe as the Banks of England - Dan Monroe 08/10/01
• Translation / Melioribus Utere Fatis - Suzi Riddle 08/10/01
• Roll out the red carpet - Paula K. 08/09/01
• Bear with a sore head - larry 08/08/01
• Honest engine - Chin Ho 08/08/01
• Tall order - James Briggs 08/08/01
• It's all good - Maureen Sullivan 08/07/01
• No Better Than She Should Be? - Dianne DeSha 08/05/01
• Money can't buy happiness - ESC 08/04/01
• Police/Latin translations
• Supercalafragalistic
• Always a bridesmaid never a bride
• Love of God
• Tighter than Dick's hatband

• Throw/toss all one's toys out of the cot
• Dead as a door nail
• Over a Barrel
• When Hell Freezes Over
• Follow suit
• Latin to English
• Doo Wop
• Old Maids
• : "whose boar ate the cabbage?"
• Ashes
• Origin of phrase
• Handicap
• Molotov cocktail
• Fell off the roof
• Back to basics
• Giving someone a wide berth
• Don't throw the baby out...
• A drug on the market
• Top billing
• Chief Seattle quote
• Pot calling the kettle black - ethnic slur?
• Black Irish
• Deader than a doughnut
• Push and pull philosophies
• The bees knees
• "Get the Hell out of Dodge."
• Phrase meaning
• Sink or swim
• 15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest
• Latin Translation?
• Grapes of wrath
• "Coon's Age" in the archives
• For the good of the cause
• Renaissance
• Fun