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ESC: U.S., United States - R. Berg 09/July/04
Warning: biker talk - ESC (USA) 09/July/04
- Why do they like it? - Ward 09/July/04
"Talking through the back of her neck" - Judy 08/July/04
Inquire of a lodging-house slavey the way to make beds - Natty 08/July/04
Chipper - Lotg (OZ) 08/July/04
Pharse meaning - *Jane* 07/July/04
Do you think I just fell off the turnip truck? - Lexi 07/July/04
Yahoo - James Briggs 07/July/04
- Yahoo - Bookworm 07/July/04
Bat n ball - Lotg (OZ) 07/July/04
Hip to be square - Lotg 06/July/04
Dipstick, dropkick, dope - Lotg 05/July/04
Which one is better/correct - Anwar 05/July/04
Three questions - Natty 04/July/04
Give away the farm - SFC 03/July/04
A back-alley amuser - jis 03/July/04
Pen Pals - Lotg 02/July/04
Grow your business - Lotg 02/July/04
Raining stair rods - CJS 02/July/04
Let freedom ring...or reign - ESC 02/July/04
Phood - ESC 01/July/04
Unlucky at cards ...... - complete the adage - ravi 01/July/04
Yanks/Yankees - Lotg 01/July/04
Sounding board - Lotg 01/July/04
By the same token - Peter 01/July/04
"What ho without there!" - Judy 30/June/04
- What ho! - Henry 30/June/04
Going out with a bang - Roy 28/June/04
Natural depravity - Natty 28/June/04
Spare no expense - Roy 28/June/04
Suck it and see - Anon 26/June/04
"I'd rather......................." - Ward 26/June/04
- "I'd rather......................." - Acme 26/June/04
Gods protect us from evil done in name of good. - Bill 24/June/04
- Gods protect us from evil done in name of good. - ESC 24/June/04
'many a true word is spoken in jest' - Ward 24/June/04
Clod-like, trust ourselves to speak, to be insincere and other questions - Natty 24/June/04
- Clod-like, trust ourselves to speak, to be insincere and other questions - Smokey Stover 24/June/04
- Clod-like, trust ourselves to speak, to be insincere and other questions - Smokey Stover 24/June/04
Saucered and blowed - ESC 24/June/04
TOO MUCH SUGAR FOR A NICKEL - FRAN OPPENHEIMER 23/June/04
"Swiz; swizzy" in Equus - koh 22/June/04
El Stinko!! - Vidhya 21/June/04
Commercial jingles - ESC 21/June/04
- I'm Lovin' It! - Brian from Shawnee 21/June/04
What is 'Frog Hollow'? - June 20/June/04
Rhyme foretelling rain: 'Old Betty's joints are on the rack' - Magnus 20/June/04
What is required is not forbidden. - Kate 20/June/04
- Sounds like - Rube 23/June/04
- "What is not required is forbidden" (correction!) - Kate 20/June/04
Whistle and rain (train or bird) - Magnus 20/June/04
Gift of the gab - cazee 20/June/04
The devil made me do it! - Ward 18/June/04
"Life begins at 40" - Philip Belove 18/June/04
- Census - Rube 19/June/04
- "Life begins at 40" - Lewis 18/June/04
'Horizontal dictionary' - Ward 17/June/04
'long and short of it ' and 'canary'/canaries (shakespeare) - Courbel 17/June/04
To The Victors... - Tojo 17/June/04
The American idom gone missing? - Word Camel 17/June/04
Maxed out - celeste 17/June/04
Blood will out - issy 17/June/04
Hip jargon circa 1971 - Mike Jahn 16/June/04
6 Tricky Song Lyrics - ESC 15/June/04
Proverbs - Steve Ruhemann 15/June/04
Eggs! - Jean Phillips 15/June/04
Row, not your boat. - Bruce Kahl 15/June/04
- Row, not your boat. - Sathyaish Chakravarthy 15/June/04
- Row, not your boat. - ESC 15/June/04
Resting on your laurels - wendolynn 14/June/04
- Resting on your laurels - platypus 14/June/04
- Resting on your laurels - ESC 14/June/04
An Englishman's (a man's) home is his castle - Geoffrey Shindler 14/June/04
Across the Piece/Piste - Jon 13/June/04
Catch your eye - Lotg 12/June/04
Dried plums - Brian from Shawnee 11/June/04
Theres more than one way to skin a cat - Cornelius 11/June/04
Gris to the mill - Mike Hands 10/June/04
- Gris to the mill - SR 10/June/04
- Grist - Rube 10/June/04
Gandy dancer - SR 10/June/04
Cats & pudding bag strings - Anna B. Good 10/June/04
R-32 and counting - Margaret 10/June/04
Call your hind leg ma and have one of your own - Diane 10/June/04
Stick to your knitting - guy andrews 08/June/04
- I think - rube 08/June/04
- Stick to your knitting - Henry 08/June/04
- Stick to your knitting - SR 08/June/04
Lying through his teeth - Swagman 08/June/04
Lying in repose vs lying in state - vlu 08/June/04
- Lying in repose vs lying in state - ESC 08/June/04
  - Lying in repose vs lying in state - HickoryG 09/June/04
  - A little history - ESC 09/June/04
To put something on the long finger - Ruth 07/June/04
Pearl - ABC 07/June/04
- Re Let's not forget - Rube 07/June/04
- Pearl - Brian from Shawnee 07/June/04
- Pearl - SR 07/June/04
Any song or rhyme with Willy's hat and the girls? - Patty 07/June/04
Having won the day (after a dispute), meaning - Jemima 07/June/04
Heartbreakers vol III - Anti 05/June/04
- Heartbreakers vol III - Smokey Stover 05/June/04
- Heartbreakers vol III - Smokey Stover 05/June/04
There is or There are a number of problems? - EE 05/June/04
Whistle past the graveyard / cemetary - john biesek 05/June/04
Scot Free - Hilda 05/June/04
Honey and vinegar - Ward 05/June/04
- Honey and vinegar - Rube 07/June/04
- Honey and vinegar - ESC 05/June/04
Crosscat (a difficult one) - Malone 05/June/04
My heart is drenched in wine - Amanda 04/June/04
In over his head - MichaelFR 04/June/04
- In over his head - Bookworm 04/June/04
- In over his head - Ward 04/June/04
Wrong Side of the Tracks - EndlessSea 03/June/04
Phrase origin? - Holly 03/June/04
First off? first of all? - june 03/June/04
Dooh Nibor - Fred 02/June/04
Couldnt give a monkeys - NAM 02/June/04
A good deal whether I ever forgive you - CjK 02/June/04
- Dear ESC and Bookworm, thank you. - CjK 02/June/04
- A good deal whether I ever forgive you - ESC 02/June/04
- A good deal whether I ever forgive you - Bookworm 02/June/04
An idiom's meaning - R. Kesavan 02/June/04
- An idiom's meaning - platypus 03/June/04
- Devil take the hindmost - Smokey Stover 02/June/04
- Devil take the hindmost - Smokey Stover 02/June/04
Usage - Rube 01/June/04
Doubting a purchase decision - Sam 31/May/04
- 'cognitive dissonance' - Ward 31/May/04
  - 'cognitive dissonance' - Emily Stevens 01/June/04
  - 'cognitive dissonance' - Bruce Kahl 31/May/04
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done - Natty 31/May/04
Phrase origin - Danna 29/May/04
- Mills of the god - ESC 29/May/04
  - Mills of the god - R. Kesavan 02/June/04
Give till it hurts - Sam 29/May/04
Rubbing is racing - ESC 28/May/04
Catch it while it flies (meaning) - Andrew 28/May/04
Chapel hat pegs - Noga 28/May/04
- Chapel hat pegs - Bruce Kahl 28/May/04
Is to 'go deedaw' to 'go sleep'? (meaning) - Paddy 28/May/04
Daily Wick? - Doog 28/May/04
Cramp your style - Sunny 27/May/04
By the way - JC 26/May/04
Actually, she's a trouper - ESC 25/May/04
I got *ragged on* badly - raggy 25/May/04
His eyes mid-*leap* - cARRIE 25/May/04
"And we're off said the monkey" - John 25/May/04
Toodle-loo - french origin hypothesis - Jacqui 25/May/04
Meaning of 'look into the abyss' phrase - Victoria 25/May/04
Wish to goodness (meaning) - Paddy 24/May/04
Origin of phrase "aces & 8's - leonard 23/May/04
Too cute by half - Fred 23/May/04
- Too cute by half - Smokey Stover 25/May/04
- Too cute by half - ESC 25/May/04