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- Grew practical - CjK 10/July/04
- I just haven't had time.......Priorities of a Politician - Lexi 09/July/04
- Personality of a legless bulldog - ESC 09/July/04
- ESC: U.S., United States - R. Berg 09/July/04
- Puzzle - James Briggs 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
- "On a tear" - Lisa 07/July/04
- Yahoo - James Briggs 07/July/04
- Yahoo - Bookworm 07/July/04
- Bat n ball - Lotg (OZ) 07/July/04
- Right in his wheelhouse??? - Vidhya 06/July/04
- Much has been said vs much have been said - Roy 06/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
- Stone Free - Maja 05/July/04
- Stone Free - ESC (U.S.) 05/July/04
- Any ideas on the origin of this phrase? - RICKYG 04/July/04
- Crossword puzzle - Bert Boyd 04/July/04
- Three questions - Natty 04/July/04
- THE CAT'S PAJAMAS - Bob Dylan 03/July/04
- Give away the farm - SFC 03/July/04
- "Revolt of the Colonies Day" - Ward 03/July/04
- A back-alley amuser - jis 03/July/04
- Pen Pals - Lotg 02/July/04
- Grow your business - Lotg 02/July/04
- Lotg - ESC (U.S.) 02/July/04
- Pridecomes before a fall - Tina Dicks 02/July/04
- Raining stair rods - CJS 02/July/04
- Let freedom ring...or reign - ESC 02/July/04
- What is the meaning of this welsh proverb? - Grief of Jojone 02/July/04
- Deep six - Michael Young 02/July/04
- Tell me the difference pls... - Danger KITTY 01/July/04
- Intelligence/intellect - ESC 01/July/04
- Head like a... - ESC 01/July/04
- Phood - ESC 01/July/04
- Unlucky at cards ...... - complete the adage - ravi 01/July/04
- Life caching - ESC 01/July/04
- Yanks/Yankees - Lotg 01/July/04
- Sounding board - Lotg 01/July/04
- By the same token - Peter 01/July/04
- Anything wrong below, especially the preposition? - ABC 30/June/04
- Obscure places, grandiose names - Lotg 30/June/04
- Fly on the wall - Steve Waugh 30/June/04
- * Good Cop Bad Cop * - Vidhya 30/June/04
- Author's intention - Natty 30/June/04
- "What ho without there!" - Judy 30/June/04
- What ho! - Henry 30/June/04
- Magazine article(s) referred to as "gun(s)" - pete 29/June/04
- SHOTGUNNED...... - Vidhya 29/June/04
- SHOTGUNNED...... - Vidhya 29/June/04
- Please help me - Sandy 29/June/04
- English to Latin - Any help appreciated! - Kylie 29/June/04
- Going out with a bang - Roy 28/June/04
- 'deja vu all over again' - Ward 28/June/04
- Take a mulligan - ESC 28/June/04
- "Hard-out light" from a New Zealand account of a meteor - abe 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
- Does one "hark" or "harp" back to a golden age? - Word Camel 25/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
- Hippie Dictionary - ESC 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
- Cloud 9 - Debra 24/June/04
- Saucered and blowed - ESC 24/June/04
- * Raise Your Skirts! and MORE* - Vidhya 23/June/04
- An old memory test - Peter Pullman 23/June/04
- TOO MUCH SUGAR FOR A NICKEL - FRAN OPPENHEIMER 23/June/04
- Sticky beak, toffee nosed - cazee 23/June/04
- Phrases which refer to the face. - cazee 23/June/04
- Political involvement - TAKSAN 23/June/04
- "No plain man would care for his mouth"Elizabeth Bowen - sky 22/June/04
- "Swiz; swizzy" in Equus - koh 22/June/04
- Origin of "full blown?" - timdawg 21/June/04
- El Stinko!! - Vidhya 21/June/04
- Commercial jingles - ESC 21/June/04
- I'm Lovin' It! - Brian from Shawnee 21/June/04
- "At the coal face..." - koh 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
- Gaining the diploma - abe 20/June/04
- Fly off shelves - kelly 19/June/04
- The devil made me do it! - Ward 18/June/04
- Emotional language - ESC 18/June/04
- Sink estate, (The phrase shows up in a search but...) - abe 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
- New phrases - ESC 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
- Need clarification - Adrienne Raby 17/June/04
- None of the above - Rube 18/June/04
- Need clarification - Brian from Shawnee 17/June/04
- The American idom gone missing? - Word Camel 17/June/04
- "In all fairness to him..." - Koh 17/June/04
- Origin of "Chaps my Ass" - Brian 17/June/04
- Happy Bloomsday (belatedly, it must be said) - Word Camel 17/June/04
- Maxed out - celeste 17/June/04
- Blood will out - issy 17/June/04
- Hapax legomena - abe 16/June/04
- Inflammable as tenor singers - Judy 16/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
- Another thing coming vs. another think coming - abe 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
- Bad luck comes in threes - everway 14/June/04
- Cost you an arm and a leg - Kaz 14/June/04
- Help for school - anyone 14/June/04
- The suffix: kill as in "Fishkill", etc. - Word Camel 14/June/04
- Heavens to Murgatroid - John Hough 14/June/04
- Smirting - Shae 13/June/04
- If a girl says 'my arks' what is she referring to? - Jemima 13/June/04
- Scat singing - SR 13/June/04
- Across the Piece/Piste - Jon 13/June/04
- Cut of his gib - dave 13/June/04
- Catch your eye - Lotg 12/June/04
- Tug at your heart strings - Lotg 12/June/04
- What is correct? - MichaelFR 12/June/04
- Webisode -- Seinfeld and Superman - ESC 12/June/04
- Phrase meaning - Tim 11/June/04
- Dried plums - Brian from Shawnee 11/June/04
- Theres more than one way to skin a cat - Cornelius 11/June/04
- Put that in your pipe and smoke it - Dave 10/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
- Last nail in the coffin - SR 10/June/04
- Cats & pudding bag strings - Anna B. Good 10/June/04
- R-32 and counting - Margaret 10/June/04
- R-32 and counting - platypus 11/June/04
- R-32 and counting - dhm 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
- Grease paper - Capeci 09/June/04
- Second rat to the trap - Ward 09/June/04
- Peachy Keen - cf 09/June/04
- What exactly is a "gentleman farmer" - giraffe 09/June/04
- Origin and Meaning of Phrase - Lyn Barton 08/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
- Lying in repose vs lying in state - ESC 08/June/04
- Light out of doors - CHRA 07/June/04
- To put something on the long finger - Ruth 07/June/04
- Give the lie - Capeci 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
- "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" - Alastair 07/June/04
- Behind the power curve - Drolly 06/June/04
- Meaning of the expression . . . - Priscilla 06/June/04
- Mohammad and the mountain - MM 05/June/04
- A family of phrases - Mike 05/June/04
- A family of phrases - R. Berg 05/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
- Eduspeak - Cynthia Rurak 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
- Whiskey sticks/spirit levels - dhm 04/June/04
- Catch it while it was fliyng - Jemima 04/June/04
- Is there a difference between 'prior' and 'previous'? - Ramakrishna 04/June/04
- Origin of these proverbs - frenchie 04/June/04
- Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - Denise 03/June/04
- Wrong Side of the Tracks - EndlessSea 03/June/04
- Line from Barbershop I - Bookworm 03/June/04
- Line from Barbershop I - platypus 03/June/04
- Line from Barbershop I - ESC 03/June/04
- Phrase origin? - Holly 03/June/04
- The devil jumped... - ESC 03/June/04
- First off? first of all? - june 03/June/04
- To be at their beck and call (meaning and origin) - Paddy 03/June/04
- To be at their beck and call (meaning and origin) - Gary 03/June/04
- To be at their beck and call (meaning and origin) - ESC 03/June/04
- Never rains but pours - R. Kesavan 03/June/04
- Dime a dozen - R. Kesavan 03/June/04
- Meaning and origin - R. Kesavan 03/June/04
- Could 'crosscat ' be a compound taken from a childhood oath? - Malone 03/June/04
- Monkey touch the monolith moment - platypus 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
- Paula Abduling - ESC 02/June/04
- Heartbreakers vol II - Anti 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
- Bread and Pull it - kentish maiden 02/June/04
- Usage - Rube 01/June/04
- A "present" for Bruce - ESC 01/June/04
- "You nailed it!" - Ward 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
- 'cognitive dissonance' - Ward 31/May/04
- We have left undone those things which we ought to have done - Natty 31/May/04
- Camels & Cocktails - ketamine 31/May/04
- Camels & Cocktails - James Briggs 31/May/04
- Camels & Cocktails - Bruce Kahl 31/May/04
- "Skank": origin unknown - R. Berg 29/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
- Mills of the god - ESC 29/May/04
- Give till it hurts - Sam 29/May/04
- Looking for origin of phrase - ian kidd 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
- Heartbreakers - Anti 28/May/04
- Is to 'go deedaw' to 'go sleep'? (meaning) - Paddy 28/May/04
- So put that in your pipe, my Lord Otto, and smoke it (meaning) - jemima 28/May/04
- Well Hung - nubee 28/May/04
- Daily Wick? - Doog 28/May/04
- Cramp your style - Sunny 27/May/04
- "Not Too Bad" means good? - Khan 27/May/04
- A penny for your thoughts - jemima 26/May/04
- By the way - JC 26/May/04
- Screwed up - kelleykbrown 26/May/04
- Thingamerry or thingamabob or thingumabob (origin) - Paddy 25/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
- Box of Birds - DG 25/May/04
- Yellow brick road - jason 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
- Up to the eyeballs and alligator - zd 24/May/04
- Babies talk and 'puffpuff' - Paddy 23/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
- Where have all the dead-enders gone? - dhm 23/May/04
- "hard-out light" from a New Zealand account of a meteor
- SHOTGUNNED......
- Heartbreakers
- * Good Cop Bad Cop *
- Obscure places, grandiose names
- Crossword puzzle
- Jerking or yanking someone's chain
- Right in his wheelhouse
- Looking for origin of phrase
- "on a tear"
- Heartbreakers vol II
- Never rains but pours
- Meaning and origin
- Dime a dozen
- Re" Crosscat
- Is there a difference between 'prior' and 'previous'?
- Mohammad and the mountain
- A family of phrases/ suggestion
- Peachy Keen
- Grease paper
- Put that in your pipe and smoke it
- What indeed?
- Smirting
- Heavens to Murgatroid
- Another thing coming vs. another think coming
- Box of Birds
- Mea Culpa
- Emotional language
- "Not Too Bad" means good?
- Political involvement