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Phrases
Our database is made from Phrases, Idioms and Sayings that are in common use in English. Basically that includes anything that most people will have heard before and will recognise the meaning of.
The many thousands of phrases that are used every day in colloquial speech, like the whole nine yards, go for it and kiss and make up.
Cockney Rhyming Slang like apples and pears and currant bun.
The list is long and comprehensive and currently contains more than 1,000 entries. We continuously add new phrases as they become known and as a subscriber you will also have the option of sending them to us.
Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over how a saying or phrase originated or whether you just enjoy words, you'll probably find something here to interest you. Are you a professional writer? If so, you may find that these Pages could make your life easier.
This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with ~E~.
Earmark Something
Earn One's Stripes
Easy as pie
Eat one's words
Eat your heart out
Eating Crow
Eating Humble Pie
Egg on your face
Eleventh Hour
Even Steven
Everything but the kitchen sink
Everything's Jake
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry
The Early Bird catches the worm
Extraordinary Rendition
Excuse my French
Excuse me while I kiss this guy
Ear Candy
I'll Eat My Hat
Eaten out of house and home
Economical with the truth
Egg On
Eighty Six
Elementary my dear Watson
The Elephant in The Room
Elvis has left the building
Et Tu Brute
Ethnic Cleansing
Even at the turning of the tide
Everybody Out
Exceedingly Well Read
The Exception that proves the rule
Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
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