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A
Aback: To take aback
J
Jack: Jack Tar, Jack of all trades etc. See Tar
Acid: The acid test of something
Jeopardy: In jeopardy
Adams: Fanny Adams
Jiffy: Done in a jiffy
Alec: A smart Alec
Jot: I don't give a jot
Apple pie: Apple pie bed
Jug: In jug
Apple pie order
K
Keep: Keep it up
Apple: The apple of your eye
Arm: To chance your arm
Aunt: My giddy aunt
Kibosh:
Axe: You have an axe to grind
B
Bacon: To bring home the bacon
Knuckle: To knuckle under; to knuckle down,
etc
L
Lam: On the lam *
To save one's bacon
Badger: To badger someone
Large: At large
Bag: To let the cat out of the bag
Lark: To lark about
In the bag
Law: Possession is nine points of the Law
Baker: A baker's dozen
Lead: To swing the lead
Ball: To be on the ball *
Leg: Pull my leg
Balloon: When the balloon goes up
Show a leg
Bandwagon: To climb on the bandwagon
Level: To do your level best
Bandy: To bandy words
On the level
Barge: To barge in *
Level pegging
Barking: Barking up the wrong tree
Lick: To lick into shape
Baron: A baron of beef
To go at a great lick *
Barrel: To have someone over a barrel
Lily: Lily livered
Bat: To bat an eyelid
Limelight: In the limelight
To do something off your own bat *
Line: My job is on the line
Bay: To keep danger at bay
Toe the line
Beam: On your beam ends
What's your line?
Bean: To have a bean feast
Lines: To read between the lines
Beans: To spill the beans
Hard lines *
Bear: A bear garden
Loaf: Use you loaf
Bee: To be the bees knees
Lock: Lock, stock and barrel
Beef: To beef about something
Loggerheads: At loggerheads
Bell: Saved by the bell
Long: So long
Bend: To go round the bend
Lurch: To be left in the lurch
Bib: To wear ones best bib and tucker
M
Madcap: He's a bit of a madcap
Bill: The Old Bill
Billio: Going like billio
Billy: Silly Billy
Mainbrace: To splice the mainbrace *
Bird: To get the bird
Main chance: To have an eye to the main
A little bird told me
chance
Biscuit: To take the biscuit
March: To steal a march on someone
Bitter: To the bitter end
Marines: Tell it to the marines
Black sheep: The black sheep of the family
Mark: He doesn't come up to the mark
Black: To black ball someone
McCoy: He's the real McCoy:
To blacklist someone
Mettle: To be on your mettle
To be in someone's black book
Mickey: To take the mickey
To be a black leg
Mickey Finn: To give someone a Mickey Finn
Black over Bill's/Will's mother *
*
Blackguard: He's a blackguard (blaggard)
Mockers: To put the mockers on *
Blank: Point blank
Molly coddle
Blanket: He's a bit of a wet blanket
Money: see pin
Block: Chockablock
Monkey: To freeze the balls from a brass
Blue murder; see Murder
monkey
Board: Above board
Moon: Over the moon *
To go by the board
Mouth: Mealy mouth
Bob: Bob's your uncle
Mud: Here's mud in your eye
Bone up: To bone up something
His name is mud
Bonfire:
Mum: To keep mum
Book: To bring to book
Murder: Blue murder
Boot: I'll give you that, to boot
Music: Face the music
The boot's on the other foot
Mustard: To cut the mustard *
Bootleg: Bootleg liquor *
N
Nail: Pay on the nail
Bottle: He's lost his bottle
Boycott: To stage a boycott
Brand: Brand new
To nail a lie
Brass: As bold as brass
I'll nail you for that
A brass neck
Namby-Pamby: He's a namby-pamby
Brass Monkey: see Monkey
Neck crop: To fall neck and crop
Break: To give someone an even break
Neck: In my neck of the woods
Breath: With bated breath
Nellie: Not on your nellie
Brick: He's a regular brick
Nest: Mare's nest
Bristol: Shipshape and Bristol fashion
Nest egg
Brown: Browned off
Newt: Drunk as a newt *
In a brown study
Nick: In the nick of time
Brush: To get the brush off
Nincompoop:
Tarred with the same brush.
Ninepence: As right as ninepence
Buck: To pass the buck
Nines: Dressed to the nines
Bucket: To kick the bucket
Nip Tuck: To race nip tuck
Bucket shop
Nitty gritty:
Bugbear: It's a bit of a bugbear
Nod: On the nod
Bull: Cock and bull story
Nose: On the nose
Bullet: To chew or bite on the bullet
To pay through the nose
Bully: Bully for you
It's no skin off my nose
Bunkum: It's a load of old bunkum
Notch: Top notch *
Burton: To go for a Burton
Nutshell: In a nutshell *
Bush: Beating about the bush
O
OK:
Butt: To be the butt of a joke *
By: By and Large
By and by
Oar: To put an oar in
C
Cake: To take the cake
Offing: In the offing
Ointment: A fly in the ointment
Onions: To know your onions *
Can: To carry the can
Ox: My giddy ox
Candle *: He's not fit to hold a candle to him.
P
Paid: To put paid to
The game is not worth the
candle.
To sell by the candle.
Pains: To undertake painstaking research
To hold a candle to the Devil.
Paint: To paint the town red
Cap: A feather in your cap
Pale: Beyond the pale
Carpet: To carpet someone
Pan out: I hope it will all pan out
To give someone the red carpet *
Pan: A flash in the pan
Cart: To be in the cart
Pander: To pander to someone
To upset the apple cart
Parcel: Part and parcel
Cat: Not enough room to swing a cat
Park: To park a car *
To let the cat out of the bag
Pat: Off pat
Catch: Catch 22
Patch: Not a patch on
Chalk: By a long chalk
Pear shaped: To go pear shaped *
Changes: To ring the changes
Peg: To peg out
Cheap: Cheap at half the price *
To take down a peg
Cheerio:
Pell Mell: to run pell mell
Cheese: Cheesed off
Penny: The penny has dropped
Chestnut: That's an old chestnut
In for a penny, in for a pound *
Chew: To chew the fat/rag *
Petard: Hoist with his own petard
Chips: You've had your chips
Peter: To peter out
ChockaBlock
Phoney:
Choke: To choke someone off
Pie: It's all pie in the sky
Chop: To Chop and Change
Pig: A pig in a poke
Clap: To clap ones eyes on
Pigeon: That's not my pigeon
Clapped: Clapped out
Pikestaff: As plain as a pikestaff
Clink: To be sent to clink
Pillar: From pillar to post
Cloud nine: To be on cloud nine
Pillar of the Establishment
Coals: To haul over the coals
Pin: Pin money
Cobblers: What a load of cobblers
Pink: In the pink
Cockles: To warm the cockles of your heart
Pip: To give someone the pip
Cock up:
Pipe: Pipe down
Cock: see Bull
A pipe dream
Cock: To be cockahoop
Piping: Food is piping hot
Codswallop: What a load of codswallop
Plain sailing: It's all plain sailing
Coil: Shuffle off this mortal coil
Play fast and loose:
Cold: To have cold feet
Plug: To plug a song
Colours: To come through with flying colours
Plum: A plum job
*
Point: To stretch a point
Comb: To go through something with a fine
Poke: Pig in a poke
tooth comb *
Pole: Up the pole
Cook: To cook the books.*
Post: Pillar to post
To cook someone's goose *
Pot: Pot luck
Copper bottomed: A copper bottomed
Gone to pot
guarantee
Potty: To drive someone potty
Corker: What a corker
Ps Qs: To mind one's Ps and Qs
Cotton: To cotton on
Pup: To be sold a pup. See let the cat out of
Course: In due course
the bag
Coventry: Sent to Coventry
Purple: To have a purple patch
Cox: Box and Cox
Q
Queer street: To be in queer street
Creek: Up the creek
Cropper: To come a cropper
Cross: Criss-cross
R
Rabbit: To rabbit on
Crows: Stone the crows *
Cuckoo: Cloud cuckoo land
Cuff: To speak off the cuff
Rain: To rain cats and dogs
Curry: To curry favour
As right as rain
Cut: To cut and run
Rap: It's not worth a rap
To cut no ice
Rat: To smell a rat *
To cut to the quick
Red: In the red
Cut out: To have your work cut out *
Red letter day:
D
Dab: To be a dab hand *
Red tape: It's a load of red tape
Rigmarole: What a rigmarole
Riley/Reilly: To live the life of *
Dam: A Tinker's dam
Ringer: A dead ringer *
Dampers: To put the dampers on something
Rise: To take the rise out of someone
Dander: To get your dander up
River: Sold down the river
Deadline: To work to a deadline
Sent up the river *
Dekko:
Rob: To Rob Peter to pay Paul
Devil: The devil take the hindmost
Robinson: Before you can say Jack Robinson
The devil to pay
Rocker: Off his rocker
Between the devil and the deep blue
Rope: It's money for old rope
sea
Ropes: To learn the ropes *
Dicey: It's a bit dicey *
S
Sack: To get the sack
Dickens: There will be the dickens to pay
Die: The die is cast
Straight as a die
Salad days: *

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