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- Foot of our stairs - sarah 05/21/00
- Foot of our stairs - Gary Martin 05/22/00
- A
nod is as good as a wink - Mouth of Sauron 05/21/00
- A nod is as good as a wink - Bob 05/21/00
- A nod is as good as a wink - Stella Remington 05/21/00
- A nod is as good as a wink - Bob 05/21/00
- Matrix
Manage - Charles Redman 05/20/00
- Matrix Manage - Bruce Kahl 05/21/00
- Matrix Manage - ESC 05/21/00
- Matrix Manage - Bruce Kahl 05/21/00
- In the pink - Bee 05/20/00
- In the pink - Oliver Battery 05/20/00
- Heart
on sleeve - sarah 05/19/00
- Heart on sleeve - Bob 05/20/00
- Cautiously
Optimistic - Rush 05/19/00
- Cautiously Optimistic - Bob 05/19/00
- Cautiously Optimistic - ESC 05/19/00
- Cautiously Optimistic - Bob 05/19/00
- American
Supper - James Briggs 05/19/00
- American Supper - ESC 05/19/00
- Forgive and forget - jeff 05/19/00
- To "black one's nose" - I. Thomas 05/19/00
- To "black one's nose" - Brian Andrews 05/21/00
- OLLY
OLLY OXEN FREE - Bill Zarankp 05/19/00
- OLLY - ESC 05/20/00
- To black ones nose - I Thomas 05/19/00
- Phrase - gitika 05/19/00
- phrase - The Kraut 05/19/00
- phrase - gitika 05/19/00
- phrase - The Kraut 05/19/00
- To
Beat the Band - BK 05/18/00
- To Beat the Band - Bruce Kahl 05/19/00
- Useage
of English words - James Briggs 05/18/00
- Useage of English words - Gary Martin 05/19/00
- "It
sucks" - Igor 05/18/00
- "It sucks" - ESC 05/19/00
- Done and dusted - Julian Henderson 05/18/00
- Whole
Ball of Wax - Katie 05/17/00
- Whole Ball of Wax - Bruce Kahl 05/18/00
- Whole Ball of Wax - Peregrine 05/18/00
- Whole Ball of Wax - Bruce Kahl 05/18/00
- Phrases - mike garratt 05/17/00
- Phrases - mike garratt 05/17/00
- Neither
chick nor child - Susan 05/16/00
- Bram Stoker's Dracula - Bruce Kahl 05/17/00
- Superstitions - rodney 05/16/00
- superstitions - Cynic 05/16/00
- superstitions - Bruce Kahl 05/16/00
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Graeme 05/16/00
- Preaching to the choir - Mike Walter 05/15/00
- PHRASES - shannon 05/15/00
- PHRASES - ESC 05/16/00
- Kettle
of fish - Kerry 05/15/00
- a fine kettle of fish - ESC 05/15/00
- "Its all greek to me" origin - joe 05/14/00
- Etched In Stone - jean 05/14/00
- Carrots?
Australia? - Bob 05/14/00
- Carrots? Australia? - Paul Guthrie 05/14/00
- Sweating like a pig! - Seal 05/14/00
- Sweating like a pig! - The Horse Wrangler 05/15/00
- Wild brains - ESC 05/13/00
- Balderdash - Jerry McQueen 05/13/00
- "Thumbs up/thumbs down" - Kathy 05/13/00
- Dead as a doornail - ESC 05/13/00
- Origin of "salad days" - hillary 05/13/00
- Origin of neck of the woods - N. Lester 05/12/00
- Origin of "Patience is a virtue" - Janine Cavasar 05/12/00
- Derrivation - Sharyn
Finnegan 05/12/00
- Monkey's uncle - ESC 05/12/00
- NYspeak - Gary Martin 05/12/00
- Keep a dog and bark yourself - Bernard Wallace 05/12/00
- Pear-shaped - Fiona Hunter 05/11/00
- "Mad
dog and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" - Hazel Winslow 05/11/00
- Noel Coward Song - Bruce Kahl 05/11/00
- Questions - ESC 05/13/00
- Noel Coward Song - Bruce Kahl 05/11/00
- (sic.) - Ali 05/11/00
- (sic.) - ESC 05/11/00
- Get
down to brass tacks - S 05/11/00
- Brass tacks - ESC 05/11/00
- Bad
penny - curious 05/10/00
- Bad penny - ESC 05/11/00
- Help! - Jennifer 05/10/00
- Help! - Barney 05/10/00
- "On the wagon" - Lotus 05/10/00
- Tie one on - shannon dealing 05/10/00
- Tie one on - ESC 05/10/00
- Tie one on - Bruce Kahl 05/10/00
- Tie one on - ESC 05/10/00
- Meaning?? - Ann Johnson 05/09/00
- DON'T
DROWN THE MILLER - Ann Johnson 05/09/00
- DON'T DROWN THE MILLER - Rodney Durn 05/09/00
- DON'T
DROWN THE MILLER - Ann Johnson 05/09/00
- Better
safe than sorry - alex 05/09/00
- better safe than sorry - Bob 05/10/00
- better safe than sorry - Liam Doherty 05/09/00
- better safe than sorry - ESC 05/10/00
- Phrase - sherri novak 05/09/00
- Waste not... - ESC 05/10/00
- Good slang site, anyone? - joel 05/07/00
- As
the thatcher said to the bishop - jon 05/06/00
- As the thatcher said to the bishop - Gary 05/07/00
- As the thatcher said to the bishop - Antony Smythe 05/07/00
- Origin and meanin of phrase - Kathy 05/06/00
- Latin phrase - Kathy 05/06/00
- Hag
ridden. - Louise 05/05/00
- Hag ridden. - Shane Edwards 05/05/00
- Fifty
million frenchmen - Jamie 05/05/00
- fifty million frenchmen - Bruce Kahl 05/05/00
- A
night on the tiles. - Louise 05/05/00
- A night on the tiles. - Gary 05/05/00
- Help
with meanings of these phrases. - Selvan 05/05/00
- Help - ESC 05/05/00
- Backs against the wall - Paul Guthrie 05/04/00
- Backs against the wall - Bob 05/04/00
- Slap up? - Gary Martin 05/04/00
- "Forty
winks" - Clarissa 05/03/00
- "Forty winks" - ESC 05/04/00
- Preaching
to the choir? - AC 05/03/00
- Preaching to the choir? - Bill Maynard 05/03/00
- I
need help with a phrase - Thea Crum 05/03/00
- Killing time - ESC 05/04/00
- Two-Time Loser? - Jim 05/03/00
- Five by Five - daniel hutchison 05/03/00
- Word Origin - Tom 05/03/00
- Loose
lips sink ships - John 05/03/00
- Loose lips might sink ships - ESC 05/03/00
- Loose lips sink ships - Frankie 05/03/00
- I need help with a phrase. - Lucia 05/02/00
- "Can't get there from here" - Wayne Frankel 05/02/00
- Telling
Bone - Andrew MacLean 05/02/00
- Telling Bone - Gary Martin 05/02/00
- Origin of term 'french letter'? - corinne 05/02/00
- Not until the last dog is hung - NancyRose 05/02/00
- all my eye and Betty Martin - judith wright 04/30/00
- Hamlet. - Claire Stuart 04/30/00
- Hamlet. - Bruce Kahl 04/30/00
- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps - Robert Strong 04/28/00
- Pull - ESC 04/28/00
- Cut to the quip / quick - joseph King 04/28/00
- Nietzsche, Baudelaire - Erik Soerensen 04/28/00
- Phrase Help - Dale 04/27/00
- Hogan's
Goat - Robert Zaring 04/27/00
- Hogan's Goat - ESC 04/27/00
- Buck Naked - L Fekete 04/27/00
- Pregnancy
phrase - Deanna Putoff 04/26/00
- The rabbit died - ESC 04/27/00
- Throw out the baby with the bathwater - jane 04/25/00
- throw out the baby with the bathwater - Lexi 05/04/00
- Throw out the baby - ESC 04/25/00
- Pearls of Wisdom - Frankie 04/25/00
- HELP - STONE THE CROWS LIRYCS NEEDED!!! - Eleuth 04/25/00
- Contrapuntal phrases - ESC 04/25/00
- Possible
phrase to add - angkana 04/25/00
- Sum
of its parts... - ESC 04/25/00
- Sum of its parts... - Barney 04/25/00
- Sum
of its parts... - ESC 04/25/00
- Term - bobbi frey 04/25/00
- Catty
corner - ESC 04/25/00
- origin of "foot in mouth" statement/cliche - gtnokes 04/25/00
- Catty
corner - ESC 04/25/00
- HELP!!!!!!!
who originated this phrase... - Kate 04/24/00
- No one can make you... - ESC 04/24/00
- Cutting
the monkey - Rene' Pearson 04/23/00
- Cutting the monkey - ESC 04/24/00
- Grace of the state???/ - Kymberly 04/23/00
- The buck stops here - Eric Reed 04/23/00
- Kit or kid gloves - paul owens 04/23/00
- "Agree
to disagree" - Clare 04/23/00
- "Agree to disagree" - Bob 04/23/00
- Rogue
states rogue nations rogue regime who 1st said it? - barbara flaa 04/22/00
- Rogue states rogue nations rogue regime who 1st said it? - Helen Trench 04/24/00
- Origin of phrase 'as thick as...' - pip kirby 04/22/00
- Thanks to ESC & SHU - James Briggs 04/22/00
- On
location - Paul Guthrie 04/22/00
- on location - ESC 04/22/00
- Tough Noogies - Milan 04/21/00
- Take
a powder - Bill McMenamin 04/21/00
- take a powder - Bruce Kahl 04/22/00
- Easter words & symbols - ESC 04/21/00
- Good Friday - ESC 04/21/00
- Trouper
vs. trooper - stacey 04/20/00
- trouper vs. trooper - ESC 04/20/00
- 86 - Bruce Harris Bentzman 04/20/00
- 86 - ESC 04/21/00
- 86 - Adieu 04/20/00
- Pete's
sake - ron 04/20/00
- Pete's sake - New Kid on the Block 04/20/00
- Movers
and shakers - Juru 04/20/00
- Movers and shakers - ajkfh 04/20/00
- Safety - charles Hamlin 04/20/00
- Country sayings - ESC 04/21/00
- safety - Barney 04/20/00
- Looking
for a confirmation to a game phrase - joeyanita 04/20/00
- Looking for a confirmation to a game phrase - Bruce Kahl 04/20/00
- Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - anna 04/19/00
- Testify - Robert R. 04/19/00
- "Betting the Chalk" - Frankie 04/18/00
- LOL - Jade 04/18/00
- LOL - Bruce Kahl 04/18/00
- Run amok - brian albinson 04/18/00
- Your
name will be mud - David 04/17/00
- Your name will be mud - ESC 04/18/00
- "If
you love something set it free . . ." - liz 04/17/00
- "If you love something set it
free . . ." - Bruce Kahl 04/17/00
- Another Version - Bruce Kahl 04/17/00
- "If you love something set it
free . . ." - Bruce Kahl 04/17/00
- "Inhale love, exhale hostility" - Mary Dodson 04/17/00
- Brass
monkey - Sandra 04/17/00
- brass monkey - Steel Gorilla 04/20/00
- brass monkey - ESC 04/17/00
- Can't find result
of listed phrase - Jeanne Myers 04/15/00
- can,t find listed phrase "butterflies in your stomach" - bernice
webb 04/25/00
- "Butterflies in your stomach" - ESC 04/27/00
- Win hands down - ESC 04/15/00
- can,t find listed phrase "butterflies in your stomach" - bernice
webb 04/25/00
- Waltzing
Matilda - Brett Rose 04/14/00
- Waltzing Matilda - ESC 04/14/00
- Whats the meaning
of :To talk the hind leg(s) off a donkey ? - Marc 04/13/00
- Talk - ESC 04/14/00
- Jack of all trades, master
of none. - Bill Merritt 04/12/00
- Jack - ESC 04/13/00
- Sick
as a Dog - Brett Rose 04/12/00
- Sick as a Dog - ESC 04/12/00
- Open
sesame - kerley 04/12/00
- open sesame - Phil Weis 04/18/00
- open sesame - Bruce Kahl 04/12/00
- 2 TEARS IN A BUCKET - BEN 04/12/00
- "My
own private Idaho" - darin ray 04/11/00
- "My own private Idaho" - Bruce Kahl 04/11/00
- Chance a Piece - Joanne Tramontano 04/11/00
- "The
strength of his convictions" - Patty 04/11/00
- "The strength of his convictions" - ESC 04/11/00
- "The strength of his convictions" - ESC 04/15/00
- "The strength of his convictions" - Bruce 04/11/00
- "The strength of his convictions" - ESC 04/11/00
- OKAY! - Michael 04/09/00
- OKAY! - Gary Martin 04/09/00
- OKAY! - Joey 04/09/00
- OKAY! - James Briggs 04/09/00
- To
die with corals in their hands - jon ackroyd 04/08/00
- Coral - ESC 04/08/00
- Birds and the
bees - beth 04/07/00
- The Straight Dope - ESC 04/10/00
- birds and the bees - Bruce Kahl 04/08/00
- birds and the bees - Bob 04/07/00
- Heavens
to Mergatroyd - Ronald T. Thomson 04/06/00
- Heavens to Mergatroyd - ESC 04/06/00
- England's
Barmy Army - Richard Chan 04/06/00
- England's Barmy Army - Confused 04/06/00
- England's Barmy Army - The Silver Surfer 04/07/00
- England's Barmy Army - Confused 04/06/00
- Marxis - Tomar 04/06/00
- Marxist Critique - Bruce Kahl 04/06/00
- Blue Collar Worker - Heather 04/04/00
- As
Dead As A Door Nail - Costume Lady 04/04/00
- As Dead As A Door Nail - James Briggs 04/04/00
- More Maybes - Bruce Kahl 04/04/00
- As Dead As A Door Nail - James Briggs 04/04/00
- "Green-mail" - Frankie 04/04/00
- Daps
and cwpee!! - Vickie Ricketts 04/04/00
- daps and cwpee!! - ESC 04/07/00
- daps and cwpee!! - Bob 04/14/00
- daps and cwpee!! - ESC 04/07/00
- Need to Know basis!!! - Chris
Plaskett 04/03/00
- Turn Key Operation - Bruce Kahl 04/03/00
- BD/SM
PHRAZES - lestat hoffengh 04/02/00
- BD/SM PHRAZES - Little Ol' Lady 04/07/00
- Tarred with the same brush - Angie Morris 04/02/00
- Jellyroll - marc 04/01/00
- I'll
be your huckleberry - nmatte 04/01/00
- I'll be your huckleberry - Bruce Kahl 04/01/00
- Nightmare
or Riding the Night Mare - debbiebarr 03/31/00
- Nightmare or Riding the Night Mare - Bruce Kahl 03/31/00
- Nightmare - ESC 04/01/00
- Nightmare or Riding the Night Mare - Bruce Kahl 03/31/00
- Blackberry winter - shirl 03/31/00
- Looking for the meaning of a phrase - Tina 03/30/00
- Swansong
and thornbirds - diane 03/30/00
- Thornbird - Bruce Kahl 03/30/00
- Swan Song - Bruce Kahl 03/30/00
- Marx - mark 03/30/00
- The meaning of a phrase - Mary Welch 03/30/00
- British
Expression? - Tomar 03/30/00
- Five Knuckle Shuffle - Bruce Kahl 03/30/00
- British Expression? - Gary Martin 03/30/00
- "Stake your claim" - Frankie 03/29/00
- Getting down to brass tacks - susan 03/29/00
- Pop stand - Kim 03/28/00
- Pop stand - Bob 03/28/00
- BB Q - MR. Obi Wan 03/28/00
- Try and / to go - Jarom Olson 03/28/00
- Old
phrases - Steven Raughton 03/27/00
- Million
dollar wound - Bruce Kahl 03/27/00
- Million dollar wound - Steven Raughton 03/27/00
- Million-dollar wound - Steven Raughton 03/27/00
- Million
dollar wound - Bruce Kahl 03/27/00
- 1920's
slang - sarah spring 03/27/00
- 1920's slang - Bruce Kahl 03/27/00
- 23 skidoo - ESC 03/27/00
- 1920's slang - Bruce Kahl 03/27/00
- 1920's slang - Bruce Kahl 03/27/00
- Dog
and pony show - Gary Martin 03/27/00
- Dog and pony show - Bruce Kahl 03/27/00
- You
Can't Get Blood Out Of A Stone. - Ron Chadwick 03/25/00
- You Can't - ESC 03/26/00
- Who
wrote it? - Peggy 03/25/00
- T.S. Eliot--The Hollow Men - Bruce Kahl 03/25/00
- "Let
the Cat Out of the Bag" - Angel 03/24/00
- Cat - ESC 03/24/00
- From rock - Clemens 03/24/00
- Seeded (Sports Useage) - Arden 03/24/00
- Flogging
a Dead Horse - Barney 03/23/00
- Beating a Dead Horse? - Bruce Kahl 03/23/00
- Paid back in spades - MLM 03/23/00
- Comma
are our friends - ESC 03/23/00
- Comma are our friends - Bob 03/23/00
- "One
in the same" - J. Wooldridge 03/22/00
- "One in the same" - ESC 03/23/00
- I'm Game! - Frankie 03/22/00
- Bright-eyed
and bushy tailed? - Susan 03/22/00
- Bright-eyed and bushy tailed? - ESC 03/22/00
- A cat? - ESC 03/23/00
- Bright-eyed and bushy tailed? - ESC 03/22/00
- Blood simple - ESC 03/22/00
- "Keep a weather eye" - trevor 03/21/00
- Dutch treat - Susan Gray 03/21/00
- Choke
their rivers... - Frankie 03/21/00
- Choke their rivers... - ESC 03/22/00
- Canary
in a coalmine - Amer Syed 03/20/00
- Canary in a coalmine - Bob 03/20/00
- Mock seriously - Tim 03/20/00
- SCUD - ? the final answer - James Briggs 03/20/00
- April
is the cruellest month - Janice 03/20/00
- April is the cruellest month - Arden 03/24/00
- April is the cruellest month - Gary Martin 03/21/00
- April is the cruellest month - Bob 03/20/00
- Black Irish - Jerry B 03/18/00
- Black Irish - Bruce Kahl 03/19/00
- Black Irish - jf 03/19/00
- HELP?!?! - Deb Hewitt 03/18/00
- Ne're-do-well - Bruce Kahl 03/18/00
- ne're-do-well - Barny 03/18/00
- Ne're-do-well - Bruce Kahl 03/18/00
- Thick
as a brick - Bill Mullen 03/18/00
- Thick as a brick - ESC 03/18/00
- Thick as a brick - Gary Martin 03/19/00
- Thick as a brick - ESC 03/18/00
- Ducks in a line (row) - Amy King 03/17/00
- Any
other phrase dict. on the net? - Eddie 03/17/00
- Yes, Brewers - Bruce Kahl 03/18/00
- Any other phrase dict. on the net? - Bruce Kahl 03/18/00
- Any other phrase dict. on the net? - James Briggs 03/20/00
- Better the Devil You
Know - CuriousMe 03/17/00
- Better the Devil You Know - ESC 03/17/00
- Happy as larry - vikki 03/17/00
- Hear, See, Speak no Evil? - Lisa Rainbird 03/16/00
- My
stars and bars! - Patty 03/16/00
- My stars and bars! - ESC 03/17/00
- Anyone
who knows shake spear please click here!!! - carmen 03/15/00
- Anyone who knows shake spear please click here!!! - Bob 03/15/00
- "Redheaded
Step Child" - Shane Collinsworth 03/15/00
- "Redheaded Step Child" - ESC 03/16/00
- "Redheaded Step Child" - Danny Royland 03/15/00
- "Redheaded Step Child" - Sean O'Donnell 03/17/00
- What
kind of phrase is this? - Terry 03/15/00
- Made mention - ESC 03/17/00
- What kind of phrase is this? - Sean O'Donnel - Dublin (Ireland) 03/17/00
- 'Who Shaves the Barber' - Barney 03/15/00
- 'On The Threshold' - David 03/15/00
- Life - Gia 03/15/00
- Bone
of Contention - Steve Knapp 03/14/00
- A
guess... - ESC 03/15/00
- A guess... - Gary Martin 03/15/00
- Another Guess........ - Bruce Kahl 03/15/00
- A
guess... - ESC 03/15/00
- Forest - Tomar 03/14/00
- Forest - Paul Guthrie 03/15/00
- Forest - ESC 03/15/00
- "Waiting for the other shoe to drop" - liz 03/14/00
- Fancy - Frankie 03/14/00
- If
you can't find the author... - A. Petersen 03/14/00
- If you can't... - ESC 03/14/00
- If you can't... - A. Petersen 03/16/00
- If you can't... - ESC 03/14/00
- The
devil is in the details - A. Petersen 03/14/00
- The devil - ESC 03/14/00
- The devil - Frankie 03/14/00
- The devil - ESC 03/14/00
- Some
men are born to greatness... - Bob 03/13/00
- Catch-22 - ESC 03/13/00
- Mediocrity - ESC 03/13/00
- Jukes
and Callycats - Kevin Tracy 03/13/00
- Jukes and Callycats - Stella 03/13/00
- Jukes and Kallikaks - Bob 03/13/00
- Jukes and Callycats - Stella 03/13/00
- Message
at bottom?? - ESC 03/10/00
- Message at bottom?? - Frankie 03/10/00
- He loves me he loves me not - angela 03/06/00
- Hip, Hip, Hooray - Joyce Thatcher 03/06/00
- Origin of phrase 'as thick as...'
- Buck Naked
- Bootstraps
- Five by Five
- Two-Time Loser?
- Back to the wall
- Old home week
- Help!
- Pear-shaped
- Balderdash
- Sweating like a pig!
- Sweating like a pig!
- Peas or pease-porridge hot
- Forgive and forget
- Hip, Hip, Hooray
- 'Who Shaves the Barber'
- Ducks in a line (row)
- "Stake your claim"
- 2 TEARS IN A BUCKET
- Sick as a Dog
- Run amok
- "Betting the Chalk"