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- I'm game for it - Deepika 16/December/03
- Knee biter - Walter Lakey 16/December/03
- Knee biter - ESC 16/December/03
- Blessing in Disguise - Sax 16/December/03
- Blessing in Disguise - Harold 16/December/03
- Don't get ya knickers in a knot - Lotg 15/December/03
- Spider hole - al 15/December/03
- Croggled - ESC 15/December/03
- Nice one - Word Camel 15/December/03
- Crocodiles - Miri Barak 15/December/03
- Crocodiles - Lewis 15/December/03
- Beat around the bush - Lap of the Goddess 15/December/03
- Story won't wash - Lotg 15/December/03
- "I'll go to the wire" - Spinerval 15/December/03
- "I'll go to the wire" - R. Berg 15/December/03
- Pigeon toed - Lotg 14/December/03
- Pigeon toed - Harold 15/December/03
- Dogfight - Lotg 14/December/03
- What's vig? - MichaelFr 14/December/03
- Vig, vigorish - ESC 14/December/03
- At the drop of a hat - Lap of the Goddess 13/December/03
- Holiday Season - Ward Fredericks 13/December/03
- Pig's ear - Joe Grocott-James 13/December/03
- Pig's ear - Ward 13/December/03
- Silk purse - R. Berg 13/December/03
- Pig's ear - James Briggs 13/December/03
- Pig's ear - Ward 13/December/03
- "Does the bear s**t in the woods"? - Ward Fredericks 13/December/03
- Economies on Empty - NEWSWEEK article - sphinx 13/December/03
- A dreary commitment? and again: live by example - sphinx 13/December/03
- Wanted: Origins of "Double dog dare" - Twirlgirl 12/December/03
- Nice phrases for work-field familiarity - werner 12/December/03
- Southern Engineered - gifron 12/December/03
- Weather's closing in - Lap of the Goddess 12/December/03
- "All get out" - Phia 11/December/03
- "All get out" - ESC 11/December/03
- "Now you're shaping - like Muldoon at a picnic" - T'Phantom Peer 11/December/03
- Help - deepi 11/December/03
- Proverbs or sayings - mrs m bite 10/December/03
- Hannukah Bush - Brian from Shawnee 10/December/03
- Enter the fray - Lotg 10/December/03
- Horse - Butler 10/December/03
- Horse - Bruce Kahl 10/December/03
- Groovy! - Lotg 10/December/03
- Hide and watch - Danny Gammon 10/December/03
- All of a sudden - VictoriaCanada 09/December/03
- Help! - kathaab 09/December/03
- A half-pay Major of Marines - Brian from Shawnee 09/December/03
- Second guess - Steph 09/December/03
- Second guess - Barney 09/December/03
- Second guess - ESC 09/December/03
- Second guess - Barney 09/December/03
- Blow your own horn - Sax 09/December/03
- Again: live by example - sphinx 09/December/03
- Too excruciating not to share - Word Camel 09/December/03
- Coming up roses - Bill Walthall 08/December/03
- Coming up roses - Henry 08/December/03
- You can't have it both ways. What does it mean? - Leo 08/December/03
- "Window of opportunity" - David Oaks 08/December/03
- Am I seeing things? - ESC 08/December/03
- Am I seeing things? - The Wise One 08/December/03
- HELP!need the "Angels calling me" liriycs - Kency 08/December/03
- Shed load - Lewis 08/December/03
- Shedding light - Henry 08/December/03
- Mike Harding? - Lewis 08/December/03
- Shedding light - Henry 08/December/03
- Pushing up the Daisies - Ditfos 08/December/03
- Hold the Fort! - Sax 08/December/03
- 'on this matter' versus 'in this matter' - John 08/December/03
- 'on this matter' versus 'in this
matter' - R. Berg 08/December/03
- Dodgy question - Lewis 08/December/03
- 'on this matter' versus 'in this
matter' - R. Berg 08/December/03
- Pork Barrelling - Lotg 07/December/03
- Explanation of a phrase - jean Spetebroodt 07/December/03
- Help - sphinx 07/December/03
- Stroppy - nothing inflammatory or religious about this one - Lotg 07/December/03
- Take the Christ out of Christmas - Lotg 07/December/03
- On this page you have a typo... - Him 07/December/03
- The Nuts - Doug Litwin 07/December/03
- The Nuts - R. Berg 07/December/03
- "Cover band" - Will Hunn 06/December/03
- Pigs & mud - werner 06/December/03
- Lie like a pig in mud - Lap of the Goddess 07/December/03
- Origin of the concept of the western world - Peter Miller 06/December/03
- Help - paula 06/December/03
- Origin of the slang "barrelling" - Debbie 06/December/03
- "Grey skies thinking"? - pdianek 06/December/03
- Look it? - VictoriaCanada 05/December/03
- Who and whom - S.R. 05/December/03
- Who and whom - Strunk 05/December/03
- Who and whom - S.R. 05/December/03
- Who and whom - Strunk 05/December/03
- Bells and whistles - Sax 05/December/03
- Creeks, streams & rivers - Lap of the Goddess 05/December/03
- 'bet that worked a treat" - Ward Fredericks 05/December/03
- Dang ESC - Lotg 05/December/03
- A member of the 'mile high club' - Ward Fredericks 04/December/03
- Put the wood to him - ESC 04/December/03
- Apples - philip 04/December/03
- Origins of the phrase "like nobodies
business" - Badger 04/December/03
- Origins of the phrase "like nobodies business" - Fred 04/December/03
- Help avec a french idiom - feep 04/December/03
- Air your dirty laundry in public - Sax 04/December/03
- Help wanted, UK! (or Ireland, or Commonwealth....) - pdianek 04/December/03
- Help wanted, UK! (or Ireland, or Commonwealth....) - Gary 04/December/03
- More fool you - Bookworm 03/December/03
- More fool me - Henry 03/December/03
- More fool me - Smokey Stover 04/December/03
- More fool me - Henry 03/December/03
- More Bang for the Buck - Mary Sparks 03/December/03
- More Bangs for your Buck - Henry 03/December/03
- Father Christmas - Finbar 03/December/03
- Lead balloon - Rob 03/December/03
- "What kinds of friends" or "what
kind of friends"? - ABC 03/December/03
- "What kinds of friends" or "what kind of friends"? - Fred 03/December/03
- What is the meaning... - andrea 03/December/03
- Something old - Mark Corden 03/December/03
- Something old - ESC 03/December/03
- Help - paula 03/December/03
- Thirty or more - Henry 03/December/03
- Phrases - paula 03/December/03
- Clean sweep - Lotg 03/December/03
- Wipe the floor with you - Lap of
the Goddess 03/December/03
- Wipe the floor with you - James Briggs 03/December/03
- Origination of swear words - WKirven 03/December/03
- "You shoot me in a dream, you better
wake up and apologize" - Ruth 03/December/03
- Reservoir Dogs - ESC 03/December/03
- Would someone help me what this means? - Kashima 02/December/03
- Would someone help me what this means? - ESC 02/December/03
- Killing floor - Anders 02/December/03
- Gypsy phrases - Kane 02/December/03
- Gypsy phrases - ESC 02/December/03
- Christmas Urban Legends - ESC 02/December/03
- Shiver me timber. - Popeye 02/December/03
- Make ends meet - sarah 02/December/03
- "Someones put a lot of hay down" - Ward Fredericks 02/December/03
- "Someones put a lot of hay down" - R. Berg 02/December/03
- "Someones put a lot of hay down" - ESC 02/December/03
- "Someones put a lot of hay down" - R. Berg 02/December/03
- UK help needed: stair-rods - pdianek 02/December/03
- Stair-rods: a guess - Word Camel 02/December/03
- UK help needed: stair-rods - Shae 02/December/03
- UK help needed: stair-rods - pdianek 02/December/03
- Stair rod synchonicity - Word Camel 02/December/03
- "Tip the rose" - Dennis 01/December/03
- Gifts vs. Presents - Ward Fredericks 01/December/03
- Left in a huff and a Chevy - ESC 01/December/03
- The Joys of Punctuation - Word Camel 01/December/03
- The Joys of Punctuation - Morse 01/December/03
- Extend the olive branch - Sam 01/December/03
- Eye for an eye - Ruth Fagan 30/November/03
- What Lincoln didn't say... - ESC 30/November/03
- What Lincoln didn't say... - Edwin Vogt 06/December/03
- What Lincoln didn't say... - Edwin Vogt 06/December/03
- What Lincoln didn't say... - Edwin Vogt 06/December/03
- Always a bridesmaid... - ESC 30/November/03
- English language and grammar - distance learning programmes? - Anders 30/November/03
- Concord: do or does - Anders 30/November/03
- Davis cup??? - Lotg 30/November/03
- Davis cup??? - sorry to the Russians - Lotg 30/November/03
- Davis cup??? - sorry to the Russians - Anders 30/November/03
- Davis cup??? - sorry to the Russians - Lotg 30/November/03
- US English "that" - puzzling grammatical structure - Anders 29/November/03
- Prescription - sphinx 29/November/03
- Prescription - pdianek 29/November/03
- Under the glass - MichaelFr 29/November/03
- US English - James Briggs 29/November/03
- US English - Smokey Stover 29/November/03
- US English - pdianek 29/November/03
- US English - Harold 29/November/03
- US English - Smokey Stover 29/November/03
- In-laws - Arlene 28/November/03
- In-laws - R. Berg 29/November/03
- In-laws - Arlene 28/November/03
- Ace up your sleeve - Sax 28/November/03
- Catch 22 - again! - James Briggs 28/November/03
- Catch 22 - again! - canders 28/November/03
- Catch 22 - again! - Lewis 28/November/03
- May the Best Man Win - Sherry 28/November/03
- Phrase meanings - Tim Quigley 27/November/03
- "Heads and tails" = in every
aspect? - Anders 27/November/03
- "Heads and tails" = in
every aspect? - pdianek 28/November/03
- Lock stock and barrel - Lewis 28/November/03
- "Heads and tails" = in
every aspect? - pdianek 28/November/03
- Weeps for ducks who go barefoot in the
park - Patrick 27/November/03
- Sorry. Searched high and low. - Bob 02/December/03
- Dressing vs. Stuffing - ESC 27/November/03
- Snatch the princess - Miri Barak 27/November/03
- Gnothi Seauton - Christopher 27/November/03
- Meaning - Sunil 26/November/03
- Meaning - Bruce Kahl 26/November/03
- "Contempt prior to investigation" - hadgreeneyes 26/November/03
- Red Letter Day - Sax 26/November/03
- Red Letter Day - madhumita 28/November/03
- Red Letter Day - James Briggs 26/November/03
- Neither hops nor malt lost - Rob
Harrison 26/November/03
- Neither hops nor malt lost - canders 28/November/03
- Neither hops nor malt lost - Bruce Kahl 26/November/03
- Cookies - Dorothy 26/November/03
- Cookies - Skeptic 27/November/03
- Cookies - R. Berg 27/November/03
- Cookies - Skeptic 27/November/03
- How I play a scatch mit phrase - Michael 26/November/03
- How I play a scatch mit phrase - Graham Mer 26/November/03
- Naval saying - jay will 25/November/03
- In the weeds - goofbal 25/November/03
- Help!! - Bruce Kahl 25/November/03
- Which used as meaning whose, ..... why? - Mauricio Segura 25/November/03
- Food phrases - thomas 25/November/03
- Food phrases - Bob 25/November/03
- In for a dime in for a dollar - John
Doe 25/November/03
- In for a dime in for a dollar - Smokey Stover 25/November/03
- French idiom - feep 25/November/03
- Origin and Meaning of Phrase - S Elbe 24/November/03
- Devil pays double - Andy New 24/November/03
- Yeasty - ESC 24/November/03
- Lying doggo - Lotg 24/November/03
- Laying doggo - Lewis 24/November/03
- Dead ringer - Lotg 24/November/03
- Dead ringer - judy kay 25/November/03
- Dead ringer - James Briggs 24/November/03
- Out for a duck - Lotg 24/November/03
- Eggsactly - Henry 24/November/03
- OK - Lotg 24/November/03
- OK - ESC 24/November/03
- Oh my gosh - so many choices.... - Lotg 24/November/03
- OK - ESC 24/November/03
- What is a "ginnel"? - pdianek 23/November/03
- What is a "ginnel"? - neil lynch 13/December/03
- What is a "ginnel"? - Gary 23/November/03
- Plural of 'time out' - Fred 23/November/03
- Crazy wisdom - hiroko 23/November/03
- Crazy wisdom - Henry 23/November/03
- Meaning of the phrase - RAJENDRA
KUMAR DUGGAR 23/November/03
- Meaning of the phrase - Bob 23/November/03
- Meaning of a phrase - prashant aphale 23/November/03
- Meaning of a phrase - James Briggs 23/November/03
- En dash or hyphen - this time quoting from the OSM - Anders 23/November/03
- See Rome and die - Ann 23/November/03
- Q for A - sphinx 22/November/03
- Q for A - ESC 22/November/03
- Q for A - pdianek 22/November/03
- Q for A - ESC 22/November/03
- "White tea" - "unlockable" - milena 22/November/03
- I've got your number - Lap of the
Goddess 22/November/03
- I've got your number - James Briggs 22/November/03
- War - James C 21/November/03
- War - S.R. 05/December/03
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea & There's/there'll be the devil to pay - Bill Smith 21/November/03
- Catch-22 (Mr. Briggs) - D.B.P. 21/November/03
- Tipped me the wink - ESC 21/November/03
- Righty tighty lefty loosy - evan 21/November/03
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul - Tim 21/November/03
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul - ESC 21/November/03
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul - Tim Horner 21/November/03
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul - ESC 21/November/03
- I'm claiming this one for myself - evan 21/November/03
- The English language - James Briggs 21/November/03
- The English language - asfdasd 06/December/03
- The English language - asfdasd 06/December/03
- The English language - ESC 21/November/03
- Climbing the walls - Sax 21/November/03
- Climbing the walls - R. Berg 21/November/03
- Mighty men - ESC 21/November/03
- Climbing the walls - R. Berg 21/November/03
- Help if you can. - kathaab 20/November/03
- Duke's mixture - anyone use this phrase? - ESC 20/November/03
- Pull up stakes - Sax 20/November/03
- Pull up stakes - James Briggs 20/November/03
- Up sticks - Lewis 20/November/03
- Pull up stakes - James Briggs 20/November/03
- Does anyone know some "said the ...." phrases - Kyle 20/November/03
- Galavanting - Deirdre 20/November/03
- Gallivanting - ESC 20/November/03
- 2 problems - wez 20/November/03
- 2 problems - Jack Robinson - James Briggs 20/November/03
- It never rains but it pours - ESC 20/November/03
- 2 problems - Jack Robinson - James Briggs 20/November/03
- Attributes & the theatre of war - sunjuvo 20/November/03
- A proverb - spoiltcat 20/November/03
- A proverb - ESC 20/November/03
- 'the adoption by' & 'to have a public airing' - sunjuvo 20/November/03
- Older than Methuselah. - Leslie 20/November/03
- (from) the far side of the web - Anders 19/November/03
- What's up - tuwana 19/November/03
- What's up - ESC 19/November/03
- Getting proper with me - henry 19/November/03
- Origin of "What the hell?" - N. Delfeld 19/November/03
- Taking exception - Ron 19/November/03
- Don't be such a pill - Mike P. 19/November/03
- 'Boer irreconcilables' hitched to... - sunjuvo 19/November/03
- "Off with his mouth !" - Michael 19/November/03
- "Off with his mouth !" - Anders 19/November/03
- "Off with his mouth !" - Michael 19/November/03
- Mind your P's and B's - Anders 19/November/03
- "Off with his mouth !" - Anders 19/November/03
- P's & Q's - stgcoach 19/November/03
- P's & Q's - R. Berg 19/November/03
- P's & Q's - Tim 20/November/03
- P's & Q's - R. Berg 19/November/03
- Flip side - ABC 19/November/03
- Open Pandora's box - ABC 19/November/03
- Open Pandora's box - Danielle Jiggetts 08/December/03
- Open Pandora's box - michelle 02/December/03
- Archived answer - R. Berg 19/November/03
- Naked with a flaming dessert - ESC 18/November/03
- Linguistics - Kateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 18/November/03
- Linguistics - Harikrishnan Menon 19/November/03
- Linguistics - al 18/November/03
- Gazumping - pdianek 18/November/03
- Gazumping--from t he Yiddish="gazump" - Bruce Kahl 19/November/03
- Stiffed for the fee - Ward Fredericks 18/November/03
- Still waters run deep - Arcain 18/November/03
- Cool - Lotg 17/November/03
- The way we were - Lotg 17/November/03
- N-dash or hyphen? - Anders 17/November/03
- Non-PC - "baked apple" - ESC 17/November/03
- Guilty as hell - cj 17/November/03
- The R-word - Brian from Shawnee 17/November/03
- Back of beyond - SR 17/November/03
- Back of beyond - Ward Fredericks 18/November/03
- Whatcha? - sphinx 17/November/03
- Making Out? - Meg 17/November/03
- Piping hot - Lotg 17/November/03
- Piping hot - R. Berg 17/November/03
- Phrase meaning - cj 17/November/03
- "Come with bells on" - Dominique 16/November/03
- "Come with bells on" - Bruce Kahl 16/November/03
- Change midstream - Lotg 16/November/03
- Change midstream - pdianek 17/November/03
- Whistle for it & Whistlin' Dixie - Lotg 16/November/03
- Whistle for it - R. Berg 17/November/03
- Whistle for it - James Briggs 17/November/03
- Whistle for it - R. Berg 17/November/03
- Dutch treat - Smokey Stover 16/November/03
- As full as an egg - Emma Wiggins 16/November/03
- As full as an egg - ESC 16/November/03
- As full as an egg - Bob 16/November/03
- As full as an egg - ESC 16/November/03
- "Still speak to me *of me and mine*" - HEDGE 15/November/03
- "Still speak to me *of me and
mine*" - ESC 15/November/03
- Re-phrasing my question - what does "me and mine" mean? - HEDGE 17/November/03
- "Still speak to me *of me and
mine*" - ESC 15/November/03
- Bent or Bad Penny - Wally Robertson 15/November/03
- "I've got a slick" - Michael 15/November/03
- Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise - John 15/November/03
- Super Bowl - Brian from Shawnee 14/November/03
- Super Bowl - ESC 15/November/03
- "Out of the woodwork" - origin? - BJ 14/November/03
- Joined-up writing - puk 14/November/03
- Break the ice - Sax 14/November/03
- "Think Outside the Box" - Dilbert 14/November/03
- Queer - ESC 14/November/03
- "Late Husband/Wife" - Tim 14/November/03
- Suit - sphinx 14/November/03
- Suit - Smokey Stover 14/November/03
- Suits you sir! - Lewis 14/November/03
- Suit - Smokey Stover 14/November/03
- What does 'on swift wing' mean? - sphinx 14/November/03
- Lookin for a certain phrase - Michael 14/November/03
- Lookin for a certain phrase - R. Berg 14/November/03
- Did you know we have a Union? - Unicorn 14/November/03
- Did you know we have a Union? - Webster 14/November/03
- No rest for the wicked - d. macala 14/November/03
- Ask what they're going to do? - daniela 13/November/03
- Ask what they're going to do? - Bob 13/November/03
- Arse over teakettle - Mark Salzl 13/November/03
- 'hung', drawn and quartered - david
patrick 13/November/03
- 'hung', drawn and quartered - Harold 13/November/03
- Gimme a break! - SR 13/November/03
- Gimme a break! - ESC 14/November/03
- Lickety split - Sax 13/November/03
- Lickety split - Smokey Stover 13/November/03
- China - Lotg 13/November/03
- Inside Lane/UK - Dick Davis 13/November/03
- What does "carry so much baggage" mean? - YSG 13/November/03
- Driving me Bananas - redsag 13/November/03
- Bobs your uncle - Ossy Goldenberg 12/November/03
- Origin of the Phrase "6 Ways to Sunday" - Paul Krasnov 12/November/03
- "6 Ways to Sunday" - ESC 13/November/03
- "6 Ways to Sunday" - Smokey Stover 13/November/03
- "6 Ways to Sunday" - ESC 13/November/03
- "Why did the chicken cross the road" origin - Jean 12/November/03
- Cribbage - Faulkner 12/November/03
- Cribbage - Gary 13/November/03
- Blue-eyed world - ESC 12/November/03
- :Anybody to help me out ? (continued) - Michael 12/November/03
- Proper wording of phrase - d. cole 12/November/03
- Proper wording of phrase - Frustrated 12/November/03
- Google Lesson - Bruce Kahl 12/November/03
- Proper wording of phrase - Frustrated 12/November/03
- I could care less! - Smokey Stover 12/November/03
- Babe in the woods - Sax 12/November/03
- Babe in the woods - R. Berg 12/November/03
- Babe in the woods - GPP 12/November/03
- Babe in the woods - R. Berg 12/November/03
- Competition - CC 12/November/03
- Sustained Deep Undervoltage - Bruce Kahl 12/November/03
- McJob - ESC 11/November/03
- Splice the Mainbrace - James Briggs 11/November/03
- Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - Bev 11/November/03
- "Drinks like he has a Wooden leg" - Ward Fredericks 11/November/03
- Hollow leg - ESC 11/November/03
- To read a subject at university - milena ferrante 11/November/03
- Lush Life - Ron Lush 11/November/03
- Avast, matey! - Andrew 11/November/03
- Avast, matey! - pdianek 11/November/03
- Avast, matey! - Bruce Kahl 11/November/03
- Avast, matey! - SR 11/November/03
- Goldbricking - Andrew 11/November/03
- Goldbricking - ESC 11/November/03
- Good as gold - al 11/November/03
- Good as gold - ESC 11/November/03
- Jake leg - ESC 11/November/03
- Jake leg - Jerome S. Shipman 27/November/03
- Jake leg - Jerome S. Shipman 27/November/03
- Pushing peeps in the creek. - rich 10/November/03
- Common phrases - Clarissa 10/November/03
- Common phrases - pdianek 10/November/03
- Around and around - Henry 11/November/03
- Common phrases - pdianek 10/November/03
- How about McMansion?
- Brag on
- Double-dog dare
- Dogfight
- Taking ourselves too seriously???
- "I'll go to the wire"
- Story won't wash
- How about McMansion?
- "out of the woodwork" - origin?
- Cursive
- Whistle for it
- Back of beyond
- Don't be such a pill
- Attributes & the theatre of war
- Correcting a few typos
- See Rome and die
- Modus operandi?
- Devil pays double
- Lemme show you the ropes, pal! :-)
- French idiom
- Under the glass
- And/or
- Examples
- Extend the olive branch
- Killing floor
- Shiver me timber.
- As sure as she's a day old...
- Pushing peeps in the creek.
- Air your dirty laundry in public
- Apples
- 'mile high club'
- Oughta take a rope and hang me
- McJob
- Help!
- To whom it may concern
- The western world