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- As broke as piecrust - ESC 10/05/02
- As broke as piecrust - Bob 10/06/02
- What
do the following phrases mean - Scott 10/05/02
- Phrases from Greek mythology - ESC 10/05/02
- A
dead fish on a line - James Briggs 10/04/02
- A dead cat (fish) on a line - ESC 10/04/02
- Background
on "Hi" - Scot 10/03/02
- Hello - ESC 10/03/02
- Background on "Hi" - R. Berg 10/03/02
- Dutch auction - Adrian Hobbs 10/03/02
- Dutch auction - James Briggs 10/03/02
- "Young Turk" - Guy Andrews 10/02/02
- Do you know... - Shana 10/02/02
- Fool me once - ESC 10/02/02
- GOLDBRICK
AND 'CHOWDERHEAD' - Bob 10/02/02
- GOLDBRICK, CHOWDERHEAD - ESC 10/02/02
- Dam
the Torpedoes - pf 10/01/02
- Damn the Torpedoes - R. Berg 10/01/02
- Help!
Only Word In English Language... - Mhairi Wylie 10/01/02
- Help! Only Word In English Language... - DGW 10/03/02
- Help! Only Word In English Language... - Bookworm 10/01/02
- Talk the hind legs off a Donkey - BOB 10/01/02
- Talk the hind legs off a Donkey - Shae 10/02/02
- Spitting Image - David Sturdy 09/30/02
- Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits - ESC 09/30/02
- Chamber's Dictionary Free Centenary E-book - Woodchuck 09/30/02
- Old blasphemies (not for the faint-hearted) - Kiwi49 09/30/02
- Old blasphemies (not for the faint-hearted) - Kiwi49 09/30/02
- Is this a nautical term? - jim 09/30/02
- Hair of the dog... - ESC 09/30/02
- Want
to know the meaning please. - Aparna.s 09/30/02
- Want to know the meaning please. - Woodchuck 09/30/02
- Need
meaning for phrase! - Lauren 09/30/02
- God is on the mountaintop - ESC 09/30/02
- Mountaintop experiences - ESC 09/30/02
- God is on the mountaintop - ESC 09/30/02
- Round Robin - Gillian 09/29/02
- Calendars - nancy k. 09/28/02
- Calendars - ESC 09/29/02
- All's
fair in love and war - travis 09/27/02
- Answer is in archives - R. Berg 09/27/02
- UK National Sound Archives - James Briggs 09/27/02
- Thinking outside the box - Robin 09/26/02
- Archived discussion & diagram - R. Berg 09/26/02
- Found
phrase -- leaning forward - ESC 09/26/02
- Found phrase -- leaning forward - masakim 09/26/02
- Found phrase -- leaning forward - masakim 09/27/02
- Found phrase -- leaning forward - masakim 09/26/02
- Im looking
for an answer to - mcgiver 09/25/02
- im looking for an answer to - Bruce Kahl 09/26/02
- The
phrase hairy eyeball - marina 09/25/02
- hairy eyeball - ESC 09/26/02
- Plug
and Play - Charles Wright 09/25/02
- Plug and Play - Barney 09/25/02
- Thought re: "right" as an intensifier... - Word Camel 09/25/02
- Jump on the bandwagon - kjo 09/25/02
- Jump on the bandwagon - James Briggs 09/25/02
- Gullible,
Gullable - Neil B 09/25/02
- Gullible, Gullable - Belaboring the obvious 09/25/02
- Above and Beyond - Heidi 09/25/02
- Above and Beyond - Woodchuck 09/26/02
- Re:give
me the right tools and i'll move the earth - Shaun O'Connell 09/24/02
- Leverage - R. Berg 09/24/02
- Leverage - Shae 09/24/02
- Leverage - R. Berg 09/24/02
- Ins and outs - Shae 09/24/02
- Ins and outs - ESC 09/24/02
- A
true tale of phrase horror - Woodchuck 09/24/02
- A true tale of phrase horror - ESC 09/25/02
- Room
and Board - Nancy K 09/24/02
- Room and Board - R. Berg 09/24/02
- Random
phrases vol. 2 - Ed Stansell 09/24/02
- Armchair general; Monday morning qback - ESC 09/24/02
- Random phrases - Ed Stansell 09/23/02
- Auld lang syne - Ed Stansell 09/23/02
- Out of sorts - Ed Stansell 09/23/02
- "He's
a real loser" - joel 09/23/02
- "He's a real loser" - ESC 09/24/02
- Being hit by a beer truck - ESC 09/23/02
- An appropriate English proverb? - Less 09/23/02
- Buzzword dictionary - ESC 09/23/02
- What
does it means? - lili 09/23/02
- Nose to grindstone - R. Berg 09/23/02
- Heavy
metal - Ed Stansell 09/22/02
- heavy metal - masakim 09/22/02
- Sources of word YAHOO - Richard Stoney 09/22/02
- Phrase - alan 09/22/02
- Phrase (Sun over the yardarm) - Woodchuck 09/22/02
- Sun is over the yardarm - ESC 09/22/02
- Two phrases for the price of one - Ed Stansell 09/22/02
- Wild goose chase - Ed Stansell 09/22/02
- Wild goose chase - ESC 09/22/02
- Like
looking for a needle in a haystack - Ed Stansell 09/22/02
- Like looking for a needle in a haystack - Barney 09/22/02
- A sucker born every minute - Ed Stansell 09/22/02
- Stranger
things - JF 09/22/02
- stranger things - ThFallen 09/23/02
- Threw me for a loop - Valerie Mockaitis 09/22/02
- Smoke and a Pancake? - Coniption 09/21/02
- Shake
a leg - Ed Stansell 09/20/02
- Shake a leg - Patricia 09/23/02
- Got
it licked - Jennifer 09/19/02
- Got it licked - R. Berg 09/19/02
- "Wet dream" - Niklas Hellgren 09/19/02
- Deju vu -- jamais vu - ESC 09/19/02
- Of the first water - Charles Bruns 09/19/02
- Who the tar? - ESC 09/19/02
- Heart
of Hearts - Alex 09/19/02
- Heart of Hearts - Woodchuck 09/19/02
- Sod's alphabet? - TheFallen 09/19/02
- Who,
what, where, when, why... - jim 09/19/02
- Boys will be boys - ESC 09/19/02
- Phrase
meaning - Ruth Drummond 09/19/02
- phrase meaning - ESC 09/19/02
- A
word problem - billy 09/19/02
- a word problem - TheFallen 09/19/02
- Origin of phrase 'Pause for Thought' - Simon Carroll 09/18/02
- Fair to Middling - maddog 09/18/02
- Hubba, Hubba -meaning - Ed Maul 09/18/02
- Found phrase - nametag & a hairnet - ESC 09/18/02
- Dutch-- stung - Tiko 09/18/02
- Eves
Dropping - Sandy 09/18/02
- Eaves Dropping - ESC 09/18/02
- Found phrase - Magic Negro - ESC 09/18/02
- Taken
down a peg or two - Chad Edgecombe 09/18/02
- Taken down a peg or two - ESC 09/18/02
- Jacob's Joy - Tim 09/18/02
- Digging out blind - cherryferrari 09/17/02
- O
Brother, Where Are Thou? - fretlessman71 09/17/02
- piece, not peace - Dan McTeague 09/17/02
- "Raising
the hackles of" - guy andrews 09/17/02
- Raising the hackles of / Getting one's hackles up - TheFallen 09/17/02
- Barking Mad - Lewis Cooper 09/17/02
- Scape
Goat - kelley 09/17/02
- Scape Goat - Mollie 09/25/02
- Escape Goat - Word Camel 09/18/02
- Biggest
bang or most bang - ESC 09/16/02
- Biggest bang or most bang - Word Camel 09/16/02
- Yonks - Linda Edwards 09/16/02
- Yonks - TheFallen 09/17/02
- Silver hook - Heath 09/16/02
- Jerry
built. - Ed Stansell 09/15/02
- jerry built. - TheFallen 09/15/02
- An
offer he can't refuse. - Ed Stansell 09/15/02
- An offer he can't refuse. - masakim 09/16/02
- One
fell swoop - Ed Stansell 09/14/02
- One fell swoop - ESC 09/14/02
- One fell swoop - Ed Stansell 09/14/02
- One fell swoop - ESC 09/14/02
- High
five - gareth william whittaker 09/13/02
- high five - ESC 09/14/02
- As
rich as Croesus - Ed Stansell 09/13/02
- As rich as Croesus - ESC 09/14/02
- Pyrrhic victory - Ed Stansell 09/13/02
- Peas & queues - Edward Stansell 09/13/02
- "Put your head between your legs and kiss your a** good bye" - smiles 09/12/02
- Origin
- Straight as a dye - David George 09/12/02
- Origin - Straight as a dye - cherryferrari 09/17/02
- Origin - Straight as a dye - Woodchuck 09/12/02
- Patience - Helen 09/12/02
- Stakeholder - Kirsten Bæk 09/11/02
- One
for the chaps - Keswick 09/11/02
- Fair play and the minor English aristocracy - TheFallen 09/11/02
- Quote - Brad 09/11/02
- Biblical - TheFallen 09/11/02
- Barrel
load of monkeys - Liz Harry 09/10/02
- Barrel load of monkeys - masakim 09/10/02
- Up to snuff - guy andrews 09/10/02
- "Second
nature" - Todd Panning 09/10/02
- "Second nature" - ESC 09/11/02
- Anyone
know the "meaning" of this? - sequin 09/10/02
- Anyone know the "meaning" of this? - Edward Stansell 09/10/02
- Mickey Finn - Edward Stansell 09/09/02
- How in Tartarus - Pavlina
Hristova 09/09/02
- How in Tartarus - Bruce Kahl 09/09/02
- Repentance - TheFallen 09/09/02
- Hassed - Woodchuck 09/09/02
- Crimbles pressies for the lexicographically inclined - Shae 09/08/02
- "Proverbs from Purgatory" - ESC 09/08/02