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• He's talking through his hat - Ortin 02/02/02
• Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. - Word Camel 02/01/02
• Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does need, is dear a penny - Marta 02/01/02
• The Family Jewels - Word Camel 01/31/02
• BRASS MONKEY - term origin - Bruce Clark 01/31/02
• Can't died in a corn field - Susan Z 01/31/02
• To "gee" someone up - Word Camel 01/30/02
• The Whole Nine Yards: Indian Perspective - Smita 01/30/02
• Loyalty card - ESC 01/30/02
  • Loyalty card - Barney 01/30/02
• Origin of "Want to come up and see my etchings?" - Phillip Cline 01/30/02
  • Etchings - R. Berg 01/30/02
• Mustard - Ronald Reston 01/29/02
  • Mustard - Bob 01/29/02
• Float it - Tiko 01/29/02
• Who said ? - Tmc 01/29/02
  • Voltaire - R. Berg 01/29/02
    • Voltaire - masakim 01/29/02
• "Had the biscuit" - B. Marlin 01/28/02
  • "Had the biscuit" - ESC 01/29/02
• Something rotten in Denmark - Sue Cutter 01/28/02
  • Something rotten in Denmark - R. Berg 01/28/02
    • Something rotten in Denmark - masakim 01/28/02
• Necessity is the mother of invention - Grace 01/28/02
  • Necessity is the mother of invention - Word Camel 01/28/02
  • Necessity is the mother of invention - ESC 01/28/02
• Wanna know origins of... - Billoud Nicolas 01/27/02
• It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick - Word Camel 01/25/02
• Soup and Fish - James Briggs 01/25/02
• Let the chips fall where they may - Pat 01/24/02
• English Language - Tiko 01/22/02
• Pogey Bait - Jim 01/20/02
• WWJD - What Would Jesus Do? - ESC 01/19/02
• Seven Bells - dennis cox 01/18/02
• "Take a number" - atcg 01/18/02
• Hat-racks in the desert - lydia 01/17/02
• Keeping up with the Joneses - Marian 01/17/02
• An amazing followup - Bob 01/16/02
• Name that walkathon - R. Berg 01/16/02
• Complaining - marty 01/16/02
  • Gripers get the vipers - ESC 01/16/02
    • Gripers get the vipers - James Briggs 01/16/02
• Born With A Silver Spoon - Ron 01/16/02
  • Born With A Silver Spoon - ESC 01/16/02
• Kotchel? Cottchel? - Word Camel 01/14/02
• Want to find out what a phrase means - liz Garside 01/13/02
• Railroad Frog - Jim 01/12/02
  • Railroad Frog, frog it - ESC 01/12/02
• Line up behind - Orbit 01/11/02
  • line up behind - Word Camel 01/11/02
• Pause for thought... irregularity. - The Fallen 01/11/02
• Nodding vs Shaking one's head yes. - The Fallen 01/10/02
• Dropped H's - Word Camel 01/10/02
• Nirvana mondegreen - Badeye 01/09/02
• "If you will" origin - Aaron 01/08/02
  • "If you will" origin - The Fallen 01/08/02
• Thick As Thieves - Tony Zavaleta 01/08/02
  • Thick As Thieves - ESC 01/08/02
    • Thick As Thieves - James Briggs 01/08/02
• Wake up and smell the roses? - Ed Williams 01/07/02
  • Wake up and smell the coffee - ESC 01/07/02
• Sketch/flash in the pan - Marian 01/06/02
  • sketch - masakim 01/06/02
    • sketch - Marian 01/06/02
  • sketch/flash in the pan - Sauerkraut 01/06/02
    • sketch/flash in the pan - Marian 01/06/02
• Sherriff - Brian Silverthorne 01/06/02
  • sheriff - ESC 01/06/02
• Sloane Rangers (posh, hooray henry types). - Jim 01/06/02
• Waiting for the other shoe to fall - diogenes Bob 01/04/02
  • waiting for the other shoe to fall - Bob 01/04/02
    • waiting for the other shoe to fall - masakim 01/06/02
• Bloody - Andreas 01/03/02
• Hogwash - sherry 01/02/02
  • hogwash - R. Berg 01/02/02
• Origin of a phrase - Jack Wilkinson 01/02/02
  • Those who can, do; . . . - R. Berg 01/02/02
    • Those who can, do; . . . - masakim 01/02/02
• "These colors never run." - Richard Slota 01/01/02
  • "These colors never run." - ESC 01/03/02
• Poem title and verse(s) - Brenda Bailey Little 12/30/01
  • Poem title and verse(s) - masakim 12/30/01
    • Poem title and verse(s) - Brenda Bailey Little 12/31/01
    • Poem title and verse(s) - Brenda Bailey Little 12/31/01
• Bend wookie - nrk 12/30/01
  • bend wookie - Brownie 01/08/02
  • bend wookie - Bruce Kahl 01/01/02
• Technical term for phrases - john netherwood 12/30/01
  • technical term for phrases - masakim 12/30/01
• Monty python - Vickie 12/30/01
  • Monty python - masakim 12/30/01
  • Monty python - Bruce Kahl 12/30/01
• Railroad Bull - Jim 12/29/01
  • Railroad Bull - R. Berg 12/29/01
    • Railroad Bull - ESC 12/29/01
• Red herring - Michael 12/29/01
  • red herring - R. Berg 12/29/01
    • red herring - a bit more - James Briggs 12/29/01
• How prisoner warders came to be called 'Screws' - James Briggs 12/28/01
  • How prisoner warders came to be called 'Screws' - ESC 12/28/01
    • How prisoner warders came to be called 'Screws' - masakim 12/28/01
• Deadline - Cutter Sisson 12/27/01
• You are just playing word games - P 12/26/01
• "Works like a Charm" - Kirby 12/20/01
  • "Works like a Charm" - R. Berg 12/21/01
    • "Works like a Charm" - ESC 12/22/01
• Who Said This? - Brian Hendrickson 12/18/01
  • Who Said This? - jkrall 12/18/01
• "Don't blow smoke up my ass". - Jogger Runner 12/18/01
  • "Don't blow smoke up my ass". - Bob 12/18/01
    • "Don't blow smoke - ESC 12/18/01
      • "Don't blow smoke - WordCamel 12/18/01
• Hurts like the Dickens - Susan 12/18/01
  • Hurts like the dickens - R. Berg 12/18/01
    • Hurts like the dickens - James Briggs 12/18/01
• The world in a grain of sand - Migel 12/17/01
  • The world in a grain of sand - TheFallen 12/17/01
• Knick Knack - Skip 12/17/01
  • Knick Knack - TheFallen 12/17/01
• Taking the biscuit - TheFallen 12/16/01
  • Taking the biscuit - Bruce Kahl 12/16/01
    • Taking the biscuit - James Briggs 12/17/01
• Burnt offerings - Paul Taylor 12/16/01
  • burnt offerings - ESC 12/16/01
• Wedding tackle - Michael 12/15/01
• Slang --snob - Q 12/14/01
• Come undone - Olga 12/14/01
  • Come undone - Bruce Kahl 12/14/01
    • Come undone - TheFallen 12/14/01
  • Come undone - TheFallen 12/14/01
• How do we get Dead Nuts On from accurate - jacob 12/14/01
  • Dead Nuts On - R. Berg 12/14/01
    • Dead Nuts On - Barney 12/15/01
• Where does Kitty Corner derive from - jacob 12/13/01
  • Where does Kitty Corner derive from - Bruce Kahl 12/14/01
• Vive la différence... -ce / -se - TheFallen 12/13/01
• Cold as a witch's t i t (in a brass brassiere???) - Dj 12/12/01
  • Cold as a witch's t i t (in a brass brassiere???) - Bruce Kahl 12/12/01
• Momma had a baby.... - J. Dahling 12/12/01
  • Momma had a baby.... - ESC 12/13/01
    • Jump-rope rhyme - R. Berg 12/13/01
• Lift that bale, tote that barge - Marian 12/12/01
• "Up the dancers" - David Campbell 12/12/01
  • "Up the dancers" - R. Berg 12/14/01
• Putting on the dog - Maggie 12/11/01
  • Putting on the dog - capable wingnut 12/11/01
• Visa versa - Steven E. Kern 12/11/01
• Model T or Fit To A T - Indefual 12/10/01
  • Fit to a T - James Briggs 12/10/01
• Strange phone message re: "The Albatross flies low when headed in a southern direction" - Celestial 12/09/01
• So quiet you could hear a pin drop - Nikki 12/09/01
  • So quiet you could hear a pin drop - R. Berg 12/11/01
• Turn-up for the books - what does it mean? - andrew bremner 12/07/01
• A Bottle In the Smoke - Scott Marsden 12/07/01
  • A Bottle In the Smoke - ESC 12/07/01
• Defintion/translation - SH 12/06/01
  • Toe to toe - R. Berg 12/06/01
• Kangaroo Court - Jim 12/05/01
  • Kangaroo Court - ESC 12/05/01
    • Kangaroo Court - Bruce Kahl 12/06/01
• Along the lines - R. Dixon 12/05/01
  • Along/on the lines - R. Berg 12/06/01
• Open space - Vic 12/05/01
  • open space - R. Berg 12/05/01
• Pardon my ignorance - capable wingnut 12/05/01
• Cockney Rhyming sland X 2 - Paul Taylor 12/05/01
  • Cockney Rhyming sland X 2 - Gary 12/05/01
    • Crash at your pad - Bruce Kahl 12/05/01
• What does "bocome an item" mean? - Charles Chen 12/05/01
• The etymological roots of marmalade - Paul Taylor 12/04/01
• Africa-America phrase - Kim Soon 12/04/01
  • African-American phrase - R. Berg 12/04/01
  • Selling woof tickets - ESC 12/04/01
    • Selling woof tickets - Sauerkraut 12/16/01
• Christmas words -- Three Wise Men - ESC 12/03/01
• Origin of "walking papers"? - John Blackmore 12/02/01
• Fighting talk - Gary Martin 11/30/01
• Deadlier (not more deadly) than the male & Full Monty - PM O'Donoghue 11/30/01
• True blue, through and through - Katie Madsen 11/29/01
• Come up for air, other meanings of - Denis 11/29/01
  • come up for air, other meanings of - P 12/01/01
    • Fish death mystery - R. Berg 12/01/01
  • come up for air - R. Berg 11/30/01
    • come up for air - masakim 11/30/01
• Canary in a coal mine - JM Goethals 11/27/01
• No quarter - M. Olzenak 11/27/01
• Onomatopoeia - capable wingnut 11/27/01
  • onomatopoeia - Barney 11/27/01
    • onomatopoeia - nita 12/05/01
• The word junior - Heleno 11/26/01
• What is a mullet? - ESC 11/26/01
  • What is a mullet? - Aasvogel 11/26/01
    • What is a mullet? - Bob 11/27/01
      • Mullet site - ESC 11/27/01
• Got the hump - line 11/26/01
  • got the hump - James Briggs 11/26/01
    • got the hump - ESC 11/26/01
• HELP ME...I need to know the origin of the word babe or baby - silkylongblkhair 11/26/01
  • babe or baby - ESC 11/27/01
    • babe or baby or child - ESC 11/27/01
• Questions tag - Heleno 11/25/01
  • Questions tag - Scott Marsden 11/27/01
  • Question tags - R. Berg 11/25/01
    • Question tags - Heleno 11/26/01
• Phrase - bonnie 11/25/01
  • Tongue in cheek - R. Berg 11/25/01
• Liquidate - Jim 11/25/01
  • Liquidate - Arthur Williams 11/25/01
    • Liquidate - masakim 11/25/01
      • Liquidate - Jim 11/26/01
    • Liquidate - Bruce Kahl 11/25/01
• "You make a better door than a window" - Dave 11/25/01
• "Busting my chops" - R. Dixon 11/25/01
  • "Busting my chops"--origin - R. Berg 11/25/01
    • "Busting my chops"--origin - masakim 11/25/01
• How about "As Tight As Dick's Hat Band"? - Wade 11/24/01
  • The archives on Dick - R. Berg 11/24/01
    • The archives on Dick - ESC 11/24/01
• Round-Robin - R. Dixon 11/24/01
  • round robin - ESC 11/24/01
• Origin of On Tenterhooks - Gareth Noakes 11/23/01
  • Origin of On Tenterhooks - capable wingnut 11/23/01
• Phrase - Dominick 11/23/01
  • paying through the nose - capable wingnut 11/23/01
• "How's it hanging?" - Ed lam 11/23/01
  • "How's it hanging?" - R. Berg 11/23/01
    • "How's it hanging?" - masakim 11/23/01
• "Freighted with meaning" - ESC 11/22/01
  • "Freighted with meaning" - R. Berg 11/23/01
• Paint the Devil on the wall - Hazel Rudd 11/22/01
• The meaning of cocked head - Heleno 11/22/01
  • cocked head - R. Berg 11/22/01
• Cost of a thing - Roger Fisher 11/22/01
  • Cost of a thing - Gary 11/22/01
• Beef Steak - Aasvogel 11/20/01
• Afghan - Dana 11/19/01
  • Afghan - ESC 11/19/01
• Doing a land office business - steve 11/19/01
  • doing a land office business - ESC 11/19/01
• Boffin - Marian 11/19/01
• ... I would like my roses to see you - Richard Sheridan - Sunitha 11/18/01

• SALT & redundancy
• The origin of 'cocked head'
• Swears like a sailor
• Collateral damage
• Knightsbridge and Stepney
• He had me in stitches
• Rocket Science
• Plausible deniability
• Tilting at windmills
• Blow the Man Down
• The English language
• "backhanded compliment"
• Ring around the Rosey
• Thinning the blood
• Back to "Thick as a brick"
• Subconcept
• Do it up brown
• What does it mean to "turn a phrase"?
• The balloon has gone up
• "You Are What You Eat"
• Meaning of rhyme
• To wear one's heart on one's sleeve
• US Equivalent for...
• Phrase
• Origin of the phrase "jump the gun"