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- Go off your tree - Dave Keen 23/October/04
- Get the low down - pcrxowl 23/October/04
- Picture chat revisited - DH 23/October/04
- Throw the rascals out! - Lexi 22/October/04
- Git-R-Done - SR 22/October/04
- Variation of door hitting you on the way out - Bookworm 21/October/04
- The money shot - Lexi 21/October/04
- The money shot - ESC 21/October/04
- As due to..... - Leslie 21/October/04
- Self-defeating - DH 21/October/04
- 69 coffees - Pavanaja U B 20/October/04
- British and US English - James Briggs 20/October/04
- British and US English - Bookworm 20/October/04
- British and US English - H knowles 20/October/04
- British and US English - Bookworm 20/October/04
- Some amusing amphibolies - Fred 20/October/04
- "Peas(?) above sticks" - H knowles 20/October/04
- Picture chat - DHd 20/October/04
- I miss the Castro??? - Karlie 20/October/04
- You're a card - Lotg 19/October/04
- Set teeth on edge - Joe Lindsey 19/October/04
- Elegant sufficiency & squeaking - Lotg 19/October/04
- It ever was.. - jCk 19/October/04
- Rapid propagation - DH 19/October/04
- Don't know you are born - Martin 18/October/04
- Don't know you are born - ESC 19/October/04
- Don't know you are born - Lotg 19/October/04
- Don't know you are born - ESC 19/October/04
- Nautical terms, sea hanties & 'bout ship - Leonard 18/October/04
- Nautical terms, sea hanties & 'bout ship - mugball-us 18/October/04
- Nautical terms, sea hanties & 'bout ship - ESC 18/October/04
- Nautical terms, sea hanties & 'bout ship - Smokey Stover 19/October/04
- Say it isn't so? - Word Camel 18/October/04
- Four-ale Pub - mugball-us 18/October/04
- Windows sorting - DH 18/October/04
- Proverbs - jim wright 18/October/04
- New eye disease/ phrase/caution! - SR 18/October/04
- Dumbbells - Bookworm 18/October/04
- 'speaker held us in the palm of his hand' - Ward 18/October/04
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Bruce Kahl 19/October/04
- Off to the races - Maurice Despentes 18/October/04
- Off to the races - Lewis 18/October/04
- Off to the races - DH 20/October/04
- Off to the races - ESC 18/October/04
- Off to the races - Lewis 18/October/04
- Low and Behold - Origin? - Torsten 18/October/04
- Low and Behold - Origin? - David FG 18/October/04
- Shakespearean phrases in use today - pasky maina 18/October/04
- "To feel put out" - Ruth Julius 18/October/04
- "To feel put out" - Smokey Stover 18/October/04
- To punch the air - Ruth Julius 18/October/04
- Spin (again) - ESC 17/October/04
- Tumbleweeds - Midnight Blue 17/October/04
- An American slang - Arash 17/October/04
- Abode? - Torsten 17/October/04
- About love - Leslie 17/October/04
- Am I my brother's keeper - david 17/October/04
- Who's your daddy? - Word Camel 17/October/04
- Who's your daddy? - Smokey 17/October/04
- Who loves ya, baby? - ESC 17/October/04
- Who's your daddy? - Smokey 17/October/04
- Dark Look - Ruth Julius 16/October/04
- Sick as a (what) - DH 16/October/04
- Monte Carlo Theory and goats - TheFallen 16/October/04
- Sherreebonn & blubble blubble (Billy Connolly) - stefano 16/October/04
- Sherreebonn & blubble blubble (Billy Connolly) - TheFallen 16/October/04
- Sherreebonn & blubble blubble (Billy Connolly) - David FG 16/October/04
- Sherreebonn & blubble blubble (Billy Connolly) - ESC 16/October/04
- To spread to rubber with it - Utah 16/October/04
- To spread to rubber with it - ESC 16/October/04
- To spread to rubber with it - ESC 16/October/04
- It was up to my grille - gille 16/October/04
- Got jacked - They got jacked 16/October/04
- A double header - a double header? 16/October/04
- You whacked it=You blew it? - Joanie 16/October/04
- Ther is - fdfe 16/October/04
- Pickle in your pocket - Mae West 15/October/04
- My Ginobilis - Kanye West 15/October/04
- Nuts in may revisited again - dalehileman 15/October/04
- Help - David Hovell 15/October/04
- Chavs - Chatham Yobs - Word Camel 15/October/04
- See below - Lewis 15/October/04
- Lewis, I protest - Word Camel 15/October/04
- See below - Lewis 15/October/04
- About the question "What's the word or the phrase"? - Leslie 15/October/04
- Fallacies - Lewis 15/October/04
- English Wheel - SR 15/October/04
- Haven't heard boo! - Len 15/October/04
- Sick as a chip - Pat Barlow 15/October/04
- Hot button issue - SR 15/October/04
- Hot button issue - DH 16/October/04
- Third Rail - Bookworm 15/October/04
- Smells warm - Lotg 15/October/04
- Cracked open a bottle - Lotg 15/October/04
- Balls to the Wall - Wes 14/October/04
- Kick on the shins, doggone my shins (american slang) - Junius 14/October/04
- Kick on the shins, doggone my shins (american slang) - DH 15/October/04
- Kick on the shins, doggone my shins (american slang) - ESC 14/October/04
- Dead heat - Kari 14/October/04
- Frtiendliness - Megan 14/October/04
- Hobos/ boomers/rounders - SR 14/October/04
- Nuts in May - revisited - James Briggs 14/October/04
- Does anyone know meaning - Mark Linkie 14/October/04
- Does anyone know meaning - blondedude 14/October/04
- Does anyone know meaning - Bruce Kahl 14/October/04
- Another/ 'nother/other - SR 14/October/04
- Asleep - SR 14/October/04
- Your mother wears combat boots, (revisited) - Dave 14/October/04
- Metonymy - ESC 14/October/04
- Like a red rag to a bull - steve skelhorn 14/October/04
- Digging a hole to China - Caroline Frank 14/October/04
- Five o'clock shadow - Ward 14/October/04
- Victims of conversion - Lotg 13/October/04
- Pepperland will be free again!--Doonesbury - DH 13/October/04
- Dropped your pocket - thorn 13/October/04
- Twenty three skidoo - Philip DiGiacomo 13/October/04
- New Q&A book to be published soon - James Briggs 13/October/04
- Novice bungler - novice bungler 13/October/04
- 'mean as a junkyard dog' - Ward 13/October/04
- Being? - being? 13/October/04
- Nose out of joint - DH 12/October/04
- Nose out of joint - ESC 13/October/04
- Nose out of joint - Lotg 13/October/04
- Nose out of joint - David FG 13/October/04
- Stones - Lotg 12/October/04
- Dead moose on the table - ESC 12/October/04
- Phrase - Ian 12/October/04
- Monkey wrench into the works - Marco 12/October/04
- Too full for words - Polaris 12/October/04
- Cross-country - itzhar 12/October/04
- Cross-country - mugball-US 13/October/04
- Cross-country - David FG 12/October/04
- Legalised child-abuse - Lewis 12/October/04
- Cross-country - ESC 12/October/04
- Ducks in a row - Eugene Dillenburg 12/October/04
- Ducks in a row - Christianne Lane 12/October/04
- Running late - bdog 11/October/04
- In high cotton - Lebrun H. 11/October/04
- Here's mud in your eye - Carolyn R 11/October/04
- U - u 11/October/04
- Hand motion - hand 11/October/04
- Insects - insects 11/October/04
- Psychological reaction - psychological reaction 11/October/04
- Psychological reaction - David FG 11/October/04
- Psychological reaction - David FG 11/October/04
- Word alterations - word alterations 11/October/04
- Snakebitten - DH 11/October/04
- Bear away the palm - Eddie 11/October/04
- The tar of my country is better than the honny of others - guinpin 10/October/04
- Travel broadens mind. - guinpin 10/October/04
- He travels fastest, who travels alone - guinpin 10/October/04
- The city for wealth, the country for heath - guinpin 10/October/04
- Put it in your diddy bag - Ward 10/October/04
- Two possible ways of reading - Miri Barak 10/October/04
- Hang ten - DH 09/October/04
- I need help??!!?? - lalaghurl 08/October/04
- Patagonia - Fred 08/October/04
- Damn Your Eyes - Jamie 08/October/04
- Same old same old - john 08/October/04
- "Off and running" - Miri Barak 08/October/04
- "Off and running" - SR 08/October/04
- "Off and running" - Miri Barak 08/October/04
- "Off and running" - SR 08/October/04
- Appointment in Samarra - ESC 08/October/04
- As mean as the grave - Peter Goldsmith 08/October/04
- What's the origin of "more than spin"? - Non-native 08/October/04
- The challengers advantage - PlatoStudent 08/October/04
- Blowin' like ole Billyo (origin) - Marlow 07/October/04
- Can we say the North Korean? - guest 07/October/04
- Beast of burden - SR 07/October/04
- Only so much - Miri Barak 07/October/04
- Phrase meanings - Raine 06/October/04
- Medic-ne - HCD 05/October/04
- NUTS IN MAY - harrowarrow 05/October/04
- Possibility and probability are two different things - Abhishek Gaur 04/October/04
- Possibility and probability are two different things - Colonel Sir Harry Flashman VC 12/October/04
- Possibility and probability are two different things - Smokey Stover 04/October/04
- Possibility and probability - Henry 04/October/04
- On the margins - MM 04/October/04
- Phrase origin - Caroline 04/October/04
- Hey Rosemary, where's your baby? - Lesley 03/October/04
- I'm broke, that's oak - Word Camel 03/October/04
- How would this site be cited in a bibliography? - ESC 03/October/04
- Song lyric - Kyle 02/October/04
- Song lyric - ESC 02/October/04
- Tears before Bedtime - Word Camel 02/October/04
- Tears before Bedtime - TheFallen 02/October/04
- So Long - Michael 01/October/04
- Chalk horse? - platypus 01/October/04
- I need a ref. address thing - sarah 30/September/04
- Humour - u 25/September/04
- Humour - TheFallen 25/September/04
- Humour - K Thompson 28/September/04
- Humour - White Angle Saxon Protestant 25/September/04
- Humour - TheFallen 25/September/04
- Fred Karno's Army
- Quick as a flash - barely missed a beat
- Another/ 'nother/other
- Canadian, eh?/ Youbetcha
- Pepperland will be free again!--Doonesbury
- Stonewalling
- Ps
- Taxes
- Rapid propagation
- Set teeth on edge
- I miss the Castro???
- Nugatory?
- 69 coffees
- Finito Benito
- Stick out like a sore thumb.
- Phrase meanings
- Get paid but do nothing
- The origin of "like a cat on wheels"
- Forensics
- Spin
- Of course I'll respect you in the morning
- Same old same old
- Put another way
- Not worth your tears, perhaps, but worth your time.
- Patagonia
- Hang ten
- The city for wealth, the country for heath
- Hand motion
- Running late
- Here's mud in your eye
- The challengers advantage
- Nanny nanny boo boo
- Stones
- My nose wasn't out of joint