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- Vagina dentata - Capeci 21/August/04
- I'm going to lick you! - Acme 21/August/04
- The Australian Bastard - Lotg (OZ) 20/August/04
- Atom splitter - DH 20/August/04
- Atom splitter - Lotg (OZ) 20/August/04
- What's on the rail for the lizard? - ESC 20/August/04
- Bender - Capeci 19/August/04
- Phrase origins? - simon 19/August/04
- Who made this quote? - kelli lee 19/August/04
- Prix fix - manda 19/August/04
- Roaring forties - Lotg (OZ) 18/August/04
- Bottoms Up - Andy 18/August/04
- Father Owl? Mother Owl? - Jose Carlos 18/August/04
- Phrase - dini b 18/August/04
- "Under my thumb" - jeff 18/August/04
- "Take it as read" - alphabet 18/August/04
- "Hold the floor" - Miri Barak 18/August/04
- Top Banana - Andy 18/August/04
- Oompah loompah - DH 18/August/04
- Stone Motherless Last - Robert Pugh 17/August/04
- Three-for-three - Kashima 17/August/04
- The origin of 'cockney' - Michael 17/August/04
- Difference between idioms, proverbs and metaphors - Sathyaish Chakravarthy 16/August/04
- Difference between idioms, proverbs and metaphors - James Briggs 16/August/04
- Difference between idioms, proverbs and metaphors - Lewis 16/August/04
- Going like the clappers - Pat Melville-Baker 16/August/04
- Time for a nooner - Acme 15/August/04
- The grail - Jose Carlos 14/August/04
- De plane - DH 14/August/04
- Inferiority Complex and Superiority Complex - ABC 13/August/04
- An idiom - Jose Carlos 13/August/04
- "Warm and fuzzy feeling" - EE 13/August/04
- "Warm and fuzzy feeling" - Bookworm 13/August/04
- "Warm and fuzzy feeling" - Brian from Shawnee 13/August/04
- "Warm and fuzzy feeling" - Word Camel 13/August/04
- "Warm and fuzzy feeling" - Bookworm 13/August/04
- Cloud Nine revisited - James Briggs 13/August/04
- "Put that in your cigarette and smoke it" - Judy 13/August/04
- Putting Down Animals - Paul Lazarus 13/August/04
- "Bling bling" - Word Camel 13/August/04
- Hand bomb or hand balm? - Say 12/August/04
- Twinkle in my eye - Jenny 12/August/04
- Use of articles in front of acronyms - Peter Taylor 12/August/04
- A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse - Liza 12/August/04
- Chica - ESC 11/August/04
- More stalls than Churchill Downs - ESC 11/August/04
- Deco delight - lantis 11/August/04
- "In his oil tot" - Margaret 11/August/04
- Beyond the pale - barry monaghan 11/August/04
- To push his nose past the judges' box - Judy 11/August/04
- To push his nose past the judges' box - james@briggs13.fsnet.co.uk 11/August/04
- To push his nose past the judges' box - Judy 11/August/04
- To push his nose past the judges' box - James Briggs 11/August/04
- To push his nose past the judges' box - james@briggs13.fsnet.co.uk 11/August/04
- Something's gotta give - manny 11/August/04
- Ham-Sam... - Gegzy 11/August/04
- White elephant - ESC 10/August/04
- An Aussie Kiss - Flyguy 10/August/04
- Stray apart - Natty 10/August/04
- One over (the) eight - Bookworm 09/August/04
- She is the cat's mother - platypus 09/August/04
- New car smell - Ward 09/August/04
- New car smell - aikwanda 09/August/04
- New car smell - Lotg (OZ) 09/August/04
- New car smell - aikwanda 09/August/04
- Hidden phrases - Stargazer 08/August/04
- Will not just won't!!!!!!!!! - Lotg (OZ) 08/August/04
- Soufflée?? - CjK 08/August/04
- To catch someone's heels - CjK 08/August/04
- Get a bump - DH 08/August/04
- One track mind - Acme 06/August/04
- A cool million - Lotg (OZ) 06/August/04
- The burning question - Lotg (OZ) 06/August/04
- Soapy potato - Natty 05/August/04
- Of itself - lantis 05/August/04
- Bushspeak - Bruce Kahl 05/August/04
- Ginnels, Snickets and Snickelways! - John F 05/August/04
- PS Snickelways - Lewis 05/August/04
- Ginnels, Snickets and Snickelways! - Lewis 05/August/04
- What's so special about Bob? - Lotg (OZ) 05/August/04
- What's so special about Bob? - Gegzy 12/August/04
- One more - Lotg (OZ) 05/August/04
- "Family values" - Word Camel 05/August/04
- Slang - reynolds 04/August/04
- Gas lighted???? - Jim Ammerman 04/August/04
- A decent fist of things? - Capeci 04/August/04
- Petting parties - Capeci 04/August/04
- Give us a call - Lotg (OZ) 04/August/04
- Give us a call - Elfinnie 13/August/04
- Give us a call - James Briggs 04/August/04
- Keeping your hand in - Lotg (OZ) 04/August/04
- Constitutional infirmity - DH 03/August/04
- If you're not liberal when you're young... - ESC 03/August/04
- Foot / Fit the bill - Teddy 03/August/04
- The "as [adj.] as somebody can be" pattern - sphinx 03/August/04
- Less is not more, more is more - Kashima 02/August/04
- Farmer's Sneeze - Bookworm 02/August/04
- First crack out of the box - James Briggs 02/August/04
- Over-complicating plain English/Pseuds Corner - Lewis 02/August/04
- Not surreptitous?? - platypus 02/August/04
- Great googlie mooglie - Pete 01/August/04
- "Eastern Seaboard" - Rachel 01/August/04
- Bings words meant something different - Lotg (OZ) 01/August/04
- Choo - DH 01/August/04
- Guilty is as guilty does - migster 31/July/04
- On the block - DH 30/July/04
- Blue moon - ESC 30/July/04
- "No more smile to him than there is to a ham" - Fennec 29/July/04
- Selling like hotcakes - Capeci 28/July/04
- Selling like hotcakes - Nancy Linkes 01/August/04
- Selling like hotcakes - ESC 28/July/04
- Nizzle sizzle - Biz 28/July/04
- Meet me at half six, for example - Jackie 28/July/04
- Deconstruct - DH 28/July/04
- Cobble dogs - bazzer 28/July/04
- Word's meaning - sino 28/July/04
- Turtles all the way down - Lotg (OZ) 28/July/04
- Turtles all the way down - platypus 28/July/04
- Turtles all the way down - Daniel Woolworth 16/August/04
- Excellent - thankyou Platypus - Lotg (OZ) 28/July/04
- Turtles all the way down - platypus 28/July/04
- All out of love - sphinx 28/July/04
- Clean as a whistle - Dorothy 27/July/04
- Clean as a whistle - Paddy Grant 17/August/04
- Clean as a whistle - ESC 27/July/04
- Clean as a whistle - James Briggs 27/July/04
- Phrases in the King's songs - sphinx 27/July/04
- Priests - Michelle 26/July/04
- A blog is more than the sum of its grafs - dhm 26/July/04
- Business as usual. - vaaaska 26/July/04
- Smoke around the campfire - ESC 25/July/04
- Exburbs? - platypus 25/July/04
- Gods Protect us 6/24/04 - T David 25/July/04
- Fleeting links and posterity - Word Camel 25/July/04
- Fleeting links and posterity - T David 26/July/04
- Pasting - ESC 25/July/04
- Fleeting links and posterity - Word Camel 25/July/04
- Naked as a Jaybird - Lotg (OZ) 23/July/04
- Lucky Pierre? - Darryl Wood 23/July/04
- Common as Muck - R Moore 23/July/04
- ^ Flibberty Gibberty ^ - * Danger Kitty* 23/July/04
- "Lake District" in England, Britain, UK or some such... - abe 23/July/04
- Frost your nanny - dan 23/July/04
- Frost your nanny - Bookworm 23/July/04
- Hindsight is always twenty-twenty - Jennyatsea 23/July/04
- Write as we speak? - Lotg (OZ) 22/July/04
- Falter to inequity - ESC 22/July/04
- Booby trap - Helen Meiling 22/July/04
- Booby trap - Gary 22/July/04
- Booby trap - Smiley 22/July/04
- Plum crazy or not??? - Lotg (OZ) 22/July/04
- Plum crazy or not??? - platypus 22/July/04
- Plum crazy or not??? - James Briggs 22/July/04
- A question about the Dominion - dhm 22/July/04
- Disclaimers - Priya 22/July/04
- Same old sixes and sevens... - Stephanie 20/July/04
- "Motor car" - the earliest use of the phrase - James Briggs 20/July/04
- "Motor car" - the earliest use of the phrase - Brian from Shawnee 20/July/04
- Funny Ha Ha... - * Danger Kitty* 19/July/04
- A quote from LOTR - cn 19/July/04
- Backward flag patch - ESC 19/July/04
- Never Heard This One--"Some people are born on third base..." - Bruce Kahl 15/July/04
- Nickname - Lotg (OZ) 15/July/04
- Ship - * Danger Kitty * 15/July/04
- 'going down with the ship' - Ward 15/July/04
- 'Safe pair of hands' - origin - Raja 15/July/04
- Meaning of the phrase - Katerina 15/July/04
- Unattached participle - Henry 15/July/04
- Unattached participle - Henry 15/July/04
- Porcupine - Hap 15/July/04
- "The Future Dictionary of America" - ESC (USA) 14/July/04
- The things you take for granted - Lotg (OZ) 14/July/04
- In the tank to - DH 14/July/04
- A' that and a' that - UC 14/July/04
- New York Minute - Ashish 14/July/04
- Save it for a rainy day - Nicola Branch 14/July/04
- "Did the earth move?" - Ward 14/July/04
- "Did the earth move?" - Lotg (OZ) 14/July/04
- "Did the earth move?" - ESC (USA) 14/July/04
- "Did the earth move?" - Lotg (OZ) 14/July/04
- Salute saying - Capeci 14/July/04
- In (one's/its) own right - Jules 13/July/04
- In (one's/its) own right - ESC 14/July/04
- In (one's/its) own right - Bruce Kahl 14/July/04
- Blowing Smoke - Mike 13/July/04
- Grammar Question - * Danger Kitty * 13/July/04
- Expatica as in Expatica.com - abe 13/July/04
- Strange and moving - Natty 13/July/04
- Phrase first use - Dave 12/July/04
- Sprightly - * Danger Kitty * 12/July/04
- ^ Phoned - in ^ - * Danger Kitty * 12/July/04
- 90s nostalgia. - ESC 12/July/04
- Post-Language poetry - Word Camel 10/July/04
- Cloud Nine revisited
- Business as usual.
- Oompah loompah
- Bottoms up!!
- "take it as read"
- Unattached participle
- Jumping Over the Side
- Cut the purse strings
- Never Heard This One--"Some people are born on third base..."
- Straight as a die
- Word's meaning
- Half past
- Grammar Question
- Give us a call
- Kettle
- Family values
- No longer hidden
- Save it for a rainy day
- White elephant
- Beyond the pale
- See that search box up there
- Twinkle in my eye
- Putting Down Animals