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.


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    This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with ~B~.


  • Baby Blues
  • Baby Boomer
  • Baby Father
  • The Back of Beyond
  • Back-Seat Driver
  • Back The Field
  • Back to Basics
  • Back to the Drawing Board
  • Back to Square One
  • Backroom Boy
  • In Someone's Bad Books
  • A Bad Egg
  • Bad Hair Day
  • Badgered to death
  • Bag and Baggage
  • The Balance of Power
  • The Balance of Trade
  • Ball and Chain
  • Bandy Words With
  • Bang on about
  • Baptism of Fire
  • Back Handed Compliment
  • Bag Lady
  • Baker's Dozen
  • Balls To The Wall
  • Bandy Words
  • Barefaced Liar
  • Barge In
  • Wouldn't touch with a Barge-Pole

  • Barking Mad

  • Basket Case

  • Barking up the wrong tree

  • Bated Breath

  • Bats in the Belfry

  • Batten down the hatches

  • Battle Royal

  • Be Afraid, be very afraid

  • Be Still, My Beating Heart

  • Beef and Reef

  • Make A Bee-line for

  • On Your Beam Ends

  • Beast with two backs

  • Beat about the bush

  • Beat Swords into Ploughshares

  • Beat a hasty retreat

  • Beat The Living Daylights out of someone

  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

  • Beauty is only skin deep

  • A Bed of Roses

  • A Bee in Your Bonnet

  • Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard

  • Been There, Done That

  • Life's not all Beer and Skittles

  • The Bee's Knees

  • Beetle-Browed

  • Before you could say Jack Robinson

  • Beg The Question

  • Behind every great man there's a great woman

  • Behind the eight ball

  • Bell, Book and Candle

  • Below The Belt

  • Below The Salt

  • Belt and Braces

  • Belt Up

  • A Wide Berth

  • Best Bib and Tucker

  • The Best laid schemes of mice and men

  • The Bet your bottom dollar

  • My Better Half

  • Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

  • Between a rock and a hard place

  • Between The Devil and the deep blue sea

  • Between Two Stools

  • Between You, me and the bed-post

  • Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

  • Beyond Our Ken

  • The Big Apple

  • The Big Cheese

  • Big Fish in A Small Pond

  • The Big Easy

  • Bill Stickers is innocent

  • Like Billy-O

  • Billy No-Mates

  • Binge Drinking

  • Birds of a feather flock together

  • Bite The Dust

  • The Bitter End

  • As black as a Newgate's knocker

  • Black-On-Black

  • Blast from the past

  • Blaze A Trail

  • The Blind leading The Blind

  • Bling-Bling

  • Blonde Bombshell

  • Blood and Thunder

  • Blood is thicker than water

  • Bloody-Minded

  • A Blot on the landscape

  • Blow a raspberry (or) Raspberry Tart

  • Blow Your Mind

  • Blow Your Own Trumpet

  • Blue Blood

  • Blue-Plate Special

  • Bodice Ripper

  • Body Surfing

  • Bog Standard

  • A Bolt from the Blue

  • Bone Dry

  • Bone Idle

  • Bone Up On

  • Booby Prize

  • Booby Trap

  • Boogie-Woogie

  • Booze Cruise

  • Born Again

  • Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

  • Born within the sound of Bow Bells

  • Boss-Eyed

  • Bottom Drawer

  • Bottom-Up

  • Bowl A Maiden Over

  • In the Box-Seat

  • Boxing Day

  • Get down to brass tacks

  • The Bread of Life

  • Break A Leg

  • Break The Ice

  • Bricks and Clicks

  • Broad in the Beam

  • As Brown As A Berry

  • Brownie Points

  • Brummagem Screwdriver

  • Bubble and Squeak

  • The Buck Stops Here

  • Buckle Down

  • Bums on Seats

  • A Bun in the Oven

  • A Bunch of Fives

  • Bunny Boiler

  • Burn the Candle at both ends

  • Burning The Midnight Oil

  • Bury The Hatchet

  • As Busy As a Bee

  • Bury Your Head in The Sand

  • Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth

  • By and Large

  • By Hook or By Crook

  • By Gum

  • Go By The Board

  • By The Book

  • By the short hairs

  • By The Skin of Your Teeth

  • Barking Up The Wrong Tree

  • Baron of Beef

  • Bat An Eyelid

  • Battling Windmills

  • Bean Feast

  • Bear Garden

  • Beat Around The Bush

  • Beat Him By A Long Chalk

  • Beat The Rap

  • Beef About Something

  • Beggars can not be choosers

  • Best Bib And Tucker

  • Bet Your Bottom Dollar

  • Between A Rock And A Hard Place

  • Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

  • Beyond The Pale

  • Big Cheese

  • Big Wig

  • Birds of A Feather Flock Together

  • Bite The Bullet.

  • Bite Your Tongue.

  • Black Ball Someone.

  • Black Sheep of The Family

  • Bleed Like A Stuck Pig

  • Blow Off Some Steam

  • Blow The Gaff

  • Blowing Smoke

  • Blue Moon

  • Bob is Your Uncle

  • Bone Up

  • Boot Camp

  • Bootleg Liquor

  • Boot is On The Other Foot

  • Born With A Silver Spoon in Your Mouth

  • Botch A Job

  • Bottom of The Barrel

  • Bought The Farm

  • Box and Cox

  • Box Your Ears

  • Brand Spanking New

  • Break A Leg

  • Brown Nosing

  • Brownie Points

  • Burn The Candle At Both Ends

  • Bury The Hatchet

  • Bust Your Balls

  • Busting Your Chops

  • Butt of A Joke

  • Buy A Pig in A Poke

  • By George

  • By Hook or By Crook

  • By The Short Hairs



    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with C.

  • Called on the carpet

  • Can It

  • Can't Get a Word in edgewise

  • Can't Hold a Candle to

  • Carry The Can

  • Cat Bird Seat

  • Catch 22

  • Caught Eavesdropping

  • Caught Red-Handed

  • Caught with his pants down

  • Chaise Lounge

  • Champ at the bit

  • Chapter and Verse

  • Charity begins at home

  • Charm the pants off

  • Charmed Life

  • Cheap at half the price

  • Chew The Fat

  • Chink in the armor

  • Chip on his shoulder

  • Chock Full

  • Choke Someone Off

  • Christmas Tree

  • Clapped Out

  • Clean as a whistle

  • Clean Bill of Health

  • Clear as a bell

  • Clear The Decks

  • Climb on the bandwagon

  • Close but no cigar

  • Cock-a-Hoop

  • Cock and Bull Story

  • Cock Up

  • Cockles of your heart

  • Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

  • Cold Turkey

  • Come a Cropper

  • Con Artist

  • Cook one's goose

  • Cook The Books

  • Cooking With Gas

  • Cool as a cucumber

  • Copper Bottomed Guarantee

  • Cotton on to someone

  • Cracker Jack

  • Credit where credit is due

  • Criss Cross

  • Crocodile Tears

  • Curate' s Egg

  • Curry Favour

  • Cut and Run

  • Cut from the same cloth

  • Cut No Ice

  • Cut out for you

  • Cut The Mustard

  • Cut to the chase

  • Cut to the quick



  • Call A Spade A Spade

  • The Call of the Wild

  • The Camera cannot lie

  • Canteen Culture

  • Carbon-Copy

  • Carbon Footprint

  • Card-Sharp

  • On Carey Street

  • Carpe Diem

  • Carry Coals to Newcastle

  • Cash on the nail

  • Put The Cart before The Horse

  • Carte Blanche

  • Never Cast a clout till May be out

  • In the Catbird Seat

  • Cat's Cradle

  • Caught by the short hairs

  • Chalk and Cheese

  • Channel Surfing

  • Charley Horse

  • Charm Offensive

  • Cherchez la Femme

  • Chew The Cud

  • Chick Flick

  • Chinless Wonder

  • Chip Off the old block

  • Chip On his shoulder

  • Chit-Chat

  • Chock-a-Block

  • Chop and Change

  • Chow Down

  • A Christmas Box

  • Christmas Card Verses

  • Clear Blue Water

  • Climb On the bandwagon

  • Clod-Hopper

  • Close Quarters

  • Close Your Eyes and Think of England

  • Cloud-Cuckoo-Land

  • On Cloud Nine

  • Don't Have a Clue

  • A Load of Cobblers

  • Cock-Sure

  • Cock a Snook

  • Cogito, Ergo Sum

  • Coin A Phrase

  • Cold As any stone

  • Cold Comfort

  • Cold Enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

  • Cold Feet

  • Cold Shoulder

  • Cold Turkey

  • The Collywobbles

  • Colour Up

  • Come A Cropper

  • Come On Down

  • Come Up Trumps

  • Come What May

  • When It Comes to the crunch

  • Coming in on a wing and a prayer

  • Comparisons are odious

  • Compassion Fatigue

  • Cooking The Books

  • As Cool As a Cucumber

  • Cool Britannia

  • Cop An Attitude

  • Copper-Bottomed

  • Cor Blimey

  • Cordon Bleu

  • Cost an arm and a leg

  • A Countenance more in sorrow than in anger

  • Counting Sheep

  • The Course of true love never did run smooth

  • The Crack of Doom

  • The Crapper

  • Crocodile Tears

  • Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war

  • A Curate's Egg

  • Curiosity killed the cat

  • Curry Favour

  • The Customer is always right

  • Cut and Run

  • Cut of your jib

  • Cut Off your nose to spite your face

  • Cut The Mustard

  • Cut to The Chase




    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with ~D~.


  • Dance Attendance On

  • A Daniel come to judgement

  • Darby and Joan

  • Dark Horse

  • The Darling Buds of May

  • Date Rape

  • Davy Jones' locker

  • Daylight Robbery

  • Dead as a Dodo

  • Dead as a Doornail

  • Dead cat bounce

  • A dead ringer

  • Deus ex Machina

  • Designer Stubble

  • Between The Devil and the deep blue sea

  • The Devil Incarnate

  • The Devil takes the hindmost

  • The Devil to pay

  • A Diamond in the rough

  • A Diamond is Forever

  • Die-Hard

  • The Die has been cast

  • Different Kettle of Fish

  • Differently Abled

  • Dirt Bag

  • A Dish fit for the Gods

  • A Does Not Know shit from Shinola

  • A Dog Days

  • Dog in the Manger

  • Dog's Bollocks

  • Dog's Breakfast

  • Dog's Dinner

  • In the Doldrums

  • Done a Runner

  • Done to a turn

  • Donkey's Years

  • Do not call us, we will call you

  • Do not change horses in midstream

  • Do not count your chickens before they hatch

  • Do not go there

  • Do not have a clue

  • Do not keep a dog and bark yourself

  • Do not look A Gift Horse In The Mouth

  • Do not Poke The Bear

  • Do not pull my leg

  • Do n't throw the baby out with the bath water

  • Do not try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs

  • Double Dutch

  • Double Whammy

  • Down at Heel

  • Down The Pan

  • Down The Tubes

  • Draw a Blank

  • Drink like a fish

  • Driving while Black

  • Drop-Dead Gorgeous

  • Dog Watch

  • Dot Your I's And Cross Your T's

  • Doubting Thomas

  • Down In The Mouth

  • Down The Hatch

  • Down To The Gnat's Ass

  • Down To The Short Strokes

  • Down To The Wire

  • Draw The Line

  • Dressed To A Tea

  • Dressed To The Nines

  • Drive Carefully

  • Drive Someone Doolally

  • Drop a Dime

  • A Drop in the Bucket

  • Dropping like Flies

  • Drummed out of the Army

  • Play Ducks and Drakes

  • Dust Up

  • Duvet Day

  • Drop The Hammer

  • Drum Up Support

  • Ducks In A Row

  • Dust to Dust

  • Dutch Treat

  • Dyed In The Wool






    • 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






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with F.



  • The face that launched a thousand ships

  • Face The Music

  • Face The Music : 2

  • Fair and Square

  • Fair Play

  • Fair to Middling

  • Fait Accompli

  • Faith Will Move Mountains

  • Fall From Grace

  • Fall Guy

  • Fall off the back of a lorry

  • Fall on your sword

  • Famous for fifteen minutes

  • Fancy Free

  • Fancy-Pants

  • Far be it from me

  • Far From The Madding Crowd

  • Farmers

  • Fashion Victim

  • Play Fast and Loose

  • Fat City

  • Living Off the fat of the land

  • A fate worse than death

  • A Feather in one's cap

  • Feather in your cap

  • Feeding Frenzy

  • Fellow Traveller

  • The Female of the species is more deadly than the male

  • Fiddling while Rome burns

  • Fie, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman

  • Field Day

  • Fifteen Minutes of Fame

  • Fifth Beatle

  • Fifth Column

  • Fight Fire with Fire

  • Fight Fire with Fire : 2

  • Fight The Good Fight

  • Filthy Rich

  • Finagle's Law ( or ) Murphy's Law

  • Find The Pony

  • As fine as frog's hair

  • Finger-Lickin' Good

  • All Fingers and Thumbs

  • First Rate

  • Of The First Water

  • First World

  • Fish or cut bait

  • Fish or cut bait : 2

  • A fish out of water

  • Fit as a butcher's dog

  • Fit as a fiddle

  • Fit as a fiddle : 2

  • Fit to be tied

  • Fits and Starts

  • Flag Something Down

  • Flash in the pan

  • Flash in the pan : 2

  • Flat Out

  • Flavor of the month

  • Flesh and Blood

  • The floozie in the jacuzzi

  • Flotsam and Jetsam

  • Flotsam and Jetsam : 2

  • Fly By the seat of one's pants

  • A fly in the ointment

  • Fly in the face of

  • Fly Off the handle

  • Fly Off the handle : 2

  • Fly on The Wall

  • Flying by the seat of your pants

  • Flying Colours

  • Foam at The Mouth

  • Fob Off

  • Fools' Gold

  • A Fool's Paradise

  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

  • Foot in The Door

  • Foot The Bill

  • For crying out loud

  • For ever and a day

  • For every thing there is a season

  • For Keeps

  • For The Birds

  • For The Birds : 2

  • For The Love of Pete

  • For Whom The Bell Tolls

  • Forbidden Fruit

  • Forgive them for they know not what they do

  • A Foregone Conclusion

  • Foul Play

  • Four by Two

  • Four corners of the earth

  • Frailty, Thy Name is Woman

  • Friday Afternoon Car

  • A Friend in need is a friend indeed

  • Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears

  • Frog in one's throat

  • A Frog in one's throat : 2

  • From sea to shining sea

  • From Soup to Nuts

  • From Stem to Stern

  • From Strength to Strength

  • Fruit of Your Loins

  • Fuddy-Duddy

  • Full as a tick

  • Full of Piss and Vinegar

  • The Full Monty

  • Full Tilt

  • Funny Farm

  • Fuzzy Wuzzy






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with G.



  • Gadzooks

  • The game is afoot

  • The game is up

  • A game of two halves

  • Gee Whiz

  • Generation X

  • Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration

  • Get A Leg Up

  • Get down to brass tacks

  • Get off on the wrong foot

  • Get one's goat

  • Get over it

  • Get The Gist

  • Get The Sack

  • Get The Kinks Out Of

  • Get thee behind me Satan

  • Get Underway

  • Get used to it

  • Get Your Dander Up

  • Get Your Dander Up : 2

  • Get your goat

  • Get Your Sea Legs

  • My giddy aunt

  • Act the giddy goat

  • Gift of the gab

  • Gild The Lily

  • Ginger

  • Ginger Up

  • Ginned Up

  • Give A Wide Berth

  • Give someone a break

  • Give up the ghost

  • Giving someone the bird

  • Glass Ceiling

  • Gloom and Doom

  • Go and boil your head

  • Go Berserk

  • Go By The Board

  • Go By The Board : 2

  • Go By The Book

  • Go Dolally

  • Go-Faster

  • Go Fly A Kite

  • Go Haywire

  • Go like the clappers

  • Go off at half-cock

  • Go out on a limb

  • Go Postal

  • Go pound sand

  • Go over like a lead balloon

  • Go to pot

  • Go to the dogs

  • Go to the mattresses

  • God is Dead

  • God rot Them

  • Godfrey Daniel

  • Going nineteen to the dozen

  • Going South

  • Going to hell in a handbasket

  • GOLF - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden

  • Gone for a burton

  • Gone to the dogs

  • As Good As Gold

  • Good Bye

  • Good in Parts

  • Good Men and True

  • A good man is hard to find

  • Good Riddance

  • Good Samaritan

  • Goody Two-Shoes

  • Gordon Bennett

  • Got my mojo working

  • Grace of God

  • Grain of Salt

  • Grand Slam

  • Grandfather Clock

  • Granny Dumping

  • Grasp The Nettle

  • Grass Up

  • Graveyard Shift

  • Greased Lightning

  • The Great Unwashed

  • Green-Eyed Monster

  • Gregory Peck

  • Grin like a Cheshire cat

  • Grinning like a Cheshire Cat

  • Words ending in GRY

  • Guinea Pig

  • Gum up the works

  • Gung Ho






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with H.


  • Had Your Chips

  • Hair of the dog

  • The Hairy Eyeball

  • Halcyon Days

  • Go off at Half-Cock

  • Half Cocked

  • Half Inch

  • Ham Actor

  • Hand Over Fist

  • Handbags at Ten Paces

  • Win Hands Down

  • Hang by a thread

  • Hanky Panky

  • Hanky Panky : 2

  • As Happy as a clam

  • As Happy as a clam : 2

  • As Happy as a sandboy

  • As Happy as Larry

  • Happy-Clappy

  • Happy Slapping

  • Hard and Fast

  • Hard Cheese

  • A hard man is good to find

  • Hard Lines

  • Hard Up

  • Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings

  • Harp On

  • Hasta La Vista

  • Hat Trick

  • Haul someone over the coals

  • Have a Captain Cook

  • Have A Screw Loose

  • Have an axe to grind

  • I have not got a clue

  • Heath Robinson Solution

  • He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches

  • He will give the Devil his due

  • Head Over Heels

  • Heads Up

  • Hear Hear

  • Heard it through the grapevine

  • Heart's Content

  • Heavens to Betsy

  • Heavens to Murgatroyd

  • Heavy Metal

  • Heebie-Jeebies

  • Hedge Your Bets

  • Hell bent for leather

  • Hell has no fury like a woman scorned

  • Hell in a handbasket

  • Hell or high water

  • Hell's Half Acre

  • Helter-Skelter

  • Hem and Haw

  • Hep-Cat

  • Here lies one whose name was writ in water

  • Here I raise My Ebenezer

  • Here Today : Gone Tomorrow

  • Het Up

  • On a hiding to nothing

  • High and dry

  • High Five

  • High-Flyer

  • High on the hog

  • High, wide and handsome

  • High on the Hog

  • High Time

  • Hissy Fit

  • History is Bunk

  • Hit The Books

  • Hit the ground running

  • Hit The Hay

  • Hit The Nail on The Head

  • Hit The Nail on The Head : 2

  • Hit The Sack

  • Hob-Nob

  • Hobson's Choice

  • Hobson's Choice : 2

  • Hocus-Pocus

  • Hog Wash

  • Hoi Polloi

  • Hoist by your own petard

  • Hoity-Toity

  • Hold A Candle to The Devil

  • Hold A Candle : 2

  • Hold Your Feet to The Fire

  • Hold your horses

  • Holding a Wake

  • Hooray Henry

  • A Horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse

  • Horse and Cart

  • Horse Feathers

  • Horse of a different colour

  • Horse Play

  • Horse Sense

  • Straight from the horse's mouth

  • Hot off the press

  • Hot on the heels

  • A house divided against itself cannot stand

  • Houston, we have a problem

  • How are the mighty fallen

  • How Now brown cow?

  • How Sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child

  • Hugger-Mugger

  • Hung, drawn and quartered

  • Hunky Dory

  • Hunky Dory : 2

  • Hurts Like The Dickens

  • Hush Puppies






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with I.


  • I Bear A Charmed Life

  • I don't give a fig

  • I don't give a jot

  • I have not slept one wink

  • I have nothing to declare but my genius

  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat

  • I have not got a clue

  • I See You stand like greyhounds in the slips

  • I spy with my little eye

  • I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

  • Icing on the cake

  • Identity Theft

  • If I had my druthers

  • If Music Be the food of love, play on

  • If the shoe fits, wear it

  • If You can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

  • If you think that, you have another think coming

  • I am stumped

  • I'll be there with bells on

  • I will give you that to boot

  • I will go to the foot of our stairs

  • An ill wind

  • In a Nutshell

  • In a Pig's Eye

  • In A Pickle

  • In a quandary

  • In A Trice

  • In an interesting condition

  • In Cahoots With

  • In Fine Fettle

  • In High Cotton

  • In Hock

  • In Jug

  • In Like Flynn

  • In Like Flynn : 2

  • In Limbo

  • In my mind's eye

  • In Someone's Bad Books

  • In Stitches

  • In The Bag

  • In The Bag : 2

  • In The Black

  • In The Box-Seat

  • In The Buff

  • In The Cart

  • In The Cart : 2

  • In The Catbird Seat

  • In The Club

  • In The Doghouse

  • In The Doldrums

  • In The Doldrums : 2

  • In The Limelight

  • In The Limelight : 2

  • In The Nick of Time

  • In The Offing

  • In The Pink

  • In The Pink : 2

  • In The Red

  • In The Red : 2

  • In Trouble

  • In Your Face

  • In The Twinkling of An Eye

  • Indian Giver

  • Indian Summer

  • Infra Dig

  • Iron Hoof

  • Irons in the fire

  • Is The Pope Catholic?

  • Is The Pope Polish?

  • Is this a Dagger which I see before me?

  • It came like A Bolt from the blue

  • It is all grist to the mill

  • It is better to give than to receive

  • It is Better to light a candle than curse the darkness

  • It is Meat and Drink to me

  • It is that man again

  • It never rains but it pours

  • It takes two fools to argue

  • It's a Doozy

  • It is a long road without a turn

  • It's All Fiddlesticks

  • Ivory Tower









    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with K.


  • Kangaroo Court

  • Kangaroo Court : 2

  • Katy Bar The Door

  • Katy Bar The Door : 2

  • As Keen as mustard

  • Keep a stiff upper lip

  • Keep a wide berth

  • Keep body and soul together

  • Keep Danger at Bay

  • Keep It under your hat

  • Keep It under your hat : 2

  • Keep It Up

  • Keep Schtum

  • Keep the ball rolling

  • Keep up with the Joneses

  • Keep your chin up

  • Keep your nose to the grindstone

  • Keep Your Pants On

  • Keep your pecker up

  • Keep your powder dry

  • Keep Your Shirt On

  • Keeping Up with the Jones's

  • Keepy-Uppy

  • Kettle of Fish

  • Khyber Pass

  • Kick The Bucket

  • Kick The Bucket : 2

  • Kick your heels

  • Kilroy was here

  • King of the hill

  • Kiss and Tell

  • Kiss Me Hardy

  • Kiss of Death

  • Kit and Caboodle

  • The whole Kit and Caboodle : 2

  • Kitchen Cabinet

  • Knee-jerk reaction

  • Knick-Knack

  • A knight in shining armour

  • A knock-back

  • Knock Off

  • Knock Off Work

  • Knock On Wood

  • Knock On Wood : 2

  • Knocked into a cocked hat

  • Knows which side of her bread is buttered

  • Know the ropes

  • Know your onions

  • Know which way the wind blows

  • Knuckle Down

  • Knuckle Down : 2

  • Knuckle Under

  • Knuckle Under : 2






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with L.


  • La-di-da

  • La dolce vita

  • A Labour of Love

  • Lager Frenzy

  • Laid out in lavender

  • Lamb to the slaughter

  • Lame Duck : 1

  • Lame Duck

  • Lardy-Dardy

  • Lark About

  • Last but not least

  • The last straw

  • Laugh like a drain

  • Laughing-Stock

  • Lay An Egg

  • Lay it on with a trowel

  • Lay it out in lavender

  • Lead-pipe cinch

  • Learn the ropes

  • The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

  • Left in the lurch

  • A Legend in one's own lifetime

  • A leopard cannot change its spots

  • Less is More

  • Let a thousand flowers bloom

  • Let not the sun go down on your wrath

  • Let The Cat out of The Bag

  • Let The Cat out of The Bag : 2

  • Let Them Eat Cake

  • Let Them Eat Cake : 2

  • Let there be light

  • Let Your Hair Down

  • Let Your Hair Down : 2

  • Level playing field

  • A lick and a promise

  • Lick into shape

  • Lickety-Split

  • Lie Low

  • Life in the 1500s - folk etymologies

  • Life of Riley

  • Life is not all beer and skittles

  • Life is too short

  • Like a chicken with its head cut off

  • Go over like a Lead Balloon

  • Like a moth to a flame

  • As alike as two peas in a pod

  • Like being savaged by a dead sheep

  • Like billy-o

  • Go Like the clappers

  • Like The Dickens

  • Lily Bellied

  • Lily-Livered

  • Lions led by donkeys

  • A little bird told me

  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

  • Live long and prosper

  • The living daylights

  • Living Hand to Mouth

  • Living off the fat of the land

  • Living on borrowed time

  • Living The Life of Riley

  • Lo and Behold

  • Lo and Behold : 2

  • Load of Cobblers

  • Load of Cobblers : 2

  • Load of Codswallop

  • Load of Codswallop : 2

  • Loaded for Bear

  • Loaf of bread

  • Local Derby

  • Lock and Load

  • Lock, Stock and Barrel

  • Lock, Stock and Barrel : 2

  • Long in The Tooth

  • Long in The Tooth : 2

  • Look a gift horse in the mouth

  • Loose Cannon

  • Loose Cannon : 2

  • Loose Lips sink ships

  • Loose Lips sink ships : 2

  • Lord Willing and the creek don't rise

  • Lose face-Save face

  • Lose your marbles

  • The love that dare not speak its name

  • Loved-Up

  • Low Man on the totem pole

  • Lucky Stiff






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with M.


  • As mad as a March hare

  • As mad as a hatter

  • Mad as a hatter : 2

  • Magical Realism

  • Main Chance

  • Make a bee-line for

  • Make a virtue of necessity

  • Make Both Ends Meet

  • Make Haste

  • Make Him an offer he can't refuse

  • Make Money hand over fist

  • Make My Day

  • Make No Bones About It

  • Make No Bones About It : 2

  • Makes your hair stand on end

  • Making Hay

  • Mal de mer

  • A man after my own heart

  • Many are called but few are chosen

  • Man does not live by bread alone

  • Man Up

  • Man's Inhumanity to Man

  • Many a true word is spoken in jest

  • Many Happy Returns

  • Marital Aid

  • Mark My Words

  • Market Forces

  • Marry in Haste, repent at leisure

  • May you live in interesting times

  • The Real McCoy

  • Mea Culpa

  • It is Meat and Drink to me

  • Meat and Two Vegetables

  • Meet Your Waterloo

  • Men in Suits

  • Ménage à trois

  • Mend Fences

  • Men's Evil Manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water

  • Merry Christmas

  • A Mickey Finn

  • A Mexican Wave

  • Middle of The Road

  • Might and Main

  • The Pen is mightier than the sword

  • Mighty oaks from little acorns grow

  • Milk of human kindness

  • Minced Oath

  • Mind your own Beeswax

  • Mind your P's and Q's

  • Mind your P's and Q's : 2

  • A Ministering Angel shall my sister be

  • Misery Acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

  • Well-Known Misquotations

  • Moaning Minnie

  • Mondegreens

  • Monkey Business

  • Monkey's Uncle

  • Montezuma's Revenge

  • The Full Monty

  • Moot Point

  • Morbid Obesity

  • More honoured in the breach than in the observance

  • More Fool You

  • Morning Person

  • Mother Country

  • Mouth-Watering

  • A Moveable Feast

  • The Moving Finger Writes

  • Moving The Goalposts

  • Much ado about nothing

  • Much of a muchness

  • Music has charms to soothe the savage breast

  • Your Name is Mud

  • A Multitude of Sins

  • Mumbo Jumbo

  • Mum's The Word

  • Mutt and Jeff

  • The Mutt's Nuts

  • My Bad

  • My Better Half

  • My cup runneth over

  • My Husband and I

  • My Giddy Aunt

  • My Giddy Aunt : 2

  • My Mind's Eye

  • My Old China

  • My Old Dutch

  • My Salad Days






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with ~N~.


  • Nail Your Colours to the mast

  • The Naked Truth

  • Namby-Pamby

  • Name and Shame

  • Your Name is Mud

  • Name will be Mudd

  • Nasty, Brutish and Short

  • A Nation of Shopkeepers

  • Ne'er Cast A Clout till May be out

  • Needs Must

  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be

  • Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring

  • Neither Here nor There

  • A Nest-Egg

  • Never Knowingly Undersold

  • Never give a Sucker an even break

  • Never-Never Land

  • Never The Twain shall meet

  • New Kid on the block

  • Nice as Ninepence

  • Nice Kettle of Fish

  • Nickel-and-Dime

  • Nine days' wonder

  • Nine Days' Wonder : 2

  • Nip and Tuck

  • Nip in the bud

  • Nitty-Gritty

  • A No-Brainer

  • No Dice

  • No Holds Barred

  • No Man is an island

  • No more cakes and ale?

  • No Names, No Pack-Drill

  • No Rest for The Wicked

  • No Room to swing a cat

  • No Way, Jose

  • Not All it's cracked up to be

  • Not Enough Room to Swing A Cat

  • Not Fit to hold a candle

  • Not for all the tea in China

  • Not playing with a full deck

  • Not Tonight Joséphine

  • Not Up To Scratch

  • Not Worth A Plugged Nickel

  • Not Worth A Whistle

  • Not Worth The Candle

  • Not Worth The Candle : 2

  • Nothing is certain but death and taxes

  • Nothing succeeds like success

  • Now is the winter of our discontent

  • To The Nth Degree

  • Nul Points






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with O.


  • O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

  • O Ye, of Little Faith

  • Odds Bodkins

  • Off The Record

  • Off With His Head

  • Oh, they have slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen

  • Okay

  • Okey-Dokey

  • As Old As Methuselah

  • As Old As The Hills

  • Old Fogey

  • Old Lang Syne

  • On a Good Footing

  • On A Hiding to Nothing

  • On a Lark

  • On A Wing and A Prayer

  • On Carey Street

  • On Cloud 9

  • On Cloud 9 : 2

  • On Queer Street

  • On The Ball

  • On The Bubble

  • On The Dole

  • On The Dot

  • On The Fiddle

  • On The Fly

  • On The Grapevine

  • On The Lam

  • On The Level

  • On The QT

  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

  • On The Wagon

  • On The Wagon : 2

  • On The Warpath

  • On With The Motley

  • On Your Beam Ends

  • On Your Beam Ends : 2

  • On Your Tod

  • Once in a blue moon

  • Once in A Blue Moon : 2

  • Once More unto the breach, dear friends, once more

  • One for the road

  • One for the road : 2

  • One-Hit Wonder

  • One Red Cent

  • One Sandwich short of a picnic

  • One small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind

  • One Stop Shop

  • One Over The Eight

  • One's Heart's Content

  • Oops-a-daisy

  • Open Season

  • The Order of The Boot

  • Out like a light

  • Out of Sight : Out of Mind

  • Out of Sorts

  • Out of The Jaws of Death

  • Out of The Mouths of babes and sucklings

  • Over A Barrel

  • Over A Barrel : 2

  • Oversexed, overpaid and over here

  • Over The Hill

  • Over The Moon

  • Over The Top

  • Over The Top : 2

  • Oxo Cube






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with P.


  • Paddle your own canoe

  • Paint The Town Red

  • Paint The Town Red : 2

  • Pan Out

  • Paper Tiger

  • Pardon My French

  • Parthian Shot

  • Parting Shot

  • Pass The Buck

  • Pass The Buck : 2

  • Pass with flying colours

  • P D Q

  • Pearls Before Swine

  • Pears for your heirs

  • Peeping Tom

  • Peeping Tom : 2

  • Peg Out

  • Pell-Mell

  • The Pen is mightier than the sword

  • The Penny Drops

  • Pester Power

  • Peter Out

  • Physician - Heal Thyself

  • Pick and Mix

  • A Picture paints a thousand words

  • Picture-Perfect

  • As easy as Pie

  • Pie in the sky

  • Piece of Cake

  • Piece of Cake : 2

  • Piece of Piss

  • Pig and Whistle

  • Pig's Ear

  • Pig in a poke

  • A Pig in a poke

  • Pigeon-Chested

  • Pin Money

  • Take with a Pinch of Salt

  • Pipe Down

  • Pipe Dream

  • Piping Hot

  • Piss like a racehorse

  • A Place for everything and everything in its place

  • A Plague on both your houses

  • Plain Sailing

  • Plates of Meat

  • Play by Ear

  • Play Ducks and Drakes

  • Play Fast and Loose

  • Play It again Sam

  • Play The Giddy Goat

  • Play The Race Card

  • As Pleased As Punch

  • Pleased as Punch

  • Not Worth A Plugged Nickel

  • Point Percy at The Porcelain

  • Point-Blank

  • Point to Point

  • Politically Correct

  • Pommy-Bashing

  • Pond Life

  • Pony and Trap

  • Poor as a Church Mouse

  • Pop goes The Weasel

  • POSH - Port out, starboard home

  • Possession is nine points of the law

  • Pot calling the kettle black

  • Take Potluck

  • The Pot calling the kettle black

  • Pot To Piss In

  • Pound of Flesh

  • Pour Oil on Troubled Waters

  • Power Corrupts : Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • Power Dressing

  • The Powers That Be

  • Praying at The Porcelain Altar

  • Preaching to the choir

  • Press into Service

  • Pretty Damn Quick

  • Pretty Kettle of Fish

  • Pretty Kettle of Fish : 2

  • Pretty Much

  • Prick up your ears

  • Prime Time

  • Primrose Path

  • The Proof of The Pudding

  • Pull out all the stops

  • Pull The Wool over one's eyes

  • Pull The Wool over one's eyes : 2

  • Pull Your Chain

  • Pull your finger out

  • Pull Yourself up by your bootstraps

  • Pull Up Stakes

  • Punch above one's weight

  • Push The Boat Out

  • Push The Envelope

  • Pushing The Envelope

  • Put A Damper On

  • Put a sock in it

  • Put a Spanner in the works

  • Put English on it

  • Put in the clink

  • Put my two cents in

  • Put on The Wooden Overcoat

  • Put on your thinking cap

  • Put on your thinking cap : 2

  • Put Paid To

  • Put The Cart before the horse

  • Put the dampers on

  • Put The Mockers On

  • Put Through The Hoop

  • Put The Wood in The Hole

  • Put Up Your Dukes

  • Put Your Best Foot Forward

  • Put Your Back Up

  • Put Your Nose Out Of Joint

  • Pyrrhic Victory






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with R.


  • Rabbit and Pork

  • Rack and Ruin

  • Rack Your Brains

  • Rag, Tag and Bobtail

  • Raining Cats and Dogs

  • Raining Stair-Rods

  • Raise Cain

  • Raise The Roof

  • Raspberry Tart

  • Rat-Arsed

  • Raze to the ground

  • Read Between The Lines

  • Read Between The Lines : 2

  • Read The Riot Act

  • Reading the riot act

  • The Real McCoy

  • Red Carpet

  • Caught Red-Handed

  • Red Herring

  • Red Herring : 2

  • Red in Tooth and Claw

  • Red Letter Day

  • Red Letter Day : 2

  • Red Light District

  • Red Sky at Night

  • Red Tape

  • Religion is the opium of the people

  • Rhyme nor Reason

  • Richard of York gave battle in vain

  • Richard The Third

  • A Riddle wrapped up in an enigma

  • Riding Shotgun

  • Right as Rain

  • Ring A Ring o'roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down

  • Ring Down The Curtain

  • Ring-Fencing

  • Ring of Truth

  • Ring The Changes

  • Ring The Changes : 2

  • Rings A Bell

  • Rinky-Dink

  • Rise and Shine

  • Road Apples

  • The Road Less Travelled

  • Road Rage

  • Roll with the punches

  • O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

  • Room to swing a cat

  • A Rose is a rose is a rose

  • A Diamond in The Rough

  • Round Robin

  • Round Robin : 2

  • Round The Bend

  • Route One

  • Rub It In

  • Rube Goldberg Contraption

  • Rule of Thumb

  • Rule of Thumb : 2

  • A Rum Do

  • Run A Mile

  • Run Amok

  • Run of The Mill

  • Run Out of Steam

  • Run The Gamut

  • Run The Gauntlet

  • Run The Gauntlet : 2









    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with S.


  • Sacred Cow

  • A Safe Pair of Hands

  • Safe Sex

  • Salad Days

  • One Sandwich short of a picnic

  • Lose Face - Save Face

  • Saved By The Bell

  • Savoir Faire

  • Say Goodnight Gracie

  • Scape Goat

  • Scarper

  • Screw Your Courage to the sticking place

  • Scuse me while I kiss this guy

  • Saved by the bell

  • Scot Free

  • Screw The Moose

  • A Sea Change

  • Sealed with a Loving Kiss

  • Seamy Side

  • Season of Mists and mellow fruitfulness

  • See A Man about a dog

  • See Red

  • Sell By The Candle

  • Sell Yourself Short

  • Send Packing

  • Senior Citizen

  • Sent to Coventry

  • Separate The Sheep from The Goats

  • Set one's cap at

  • Sex and Shopping

  • Sexton Blake

  • The Seven-Year Itch

  • The Whole Shebang

  • Shake A Leg

  • Shaggy Dog Story

  • Shall I Compare thee to a summer's day?

  • Shanks' Mare

  • Share and Share Alike

  • Shilly-Shally

  • Ship Shape

  • Ship-Shape and Bristol Fashion

  • Shit for Brains

  • Shiver My Timbers

  • Shoe In

  • Shoot Through

  • Short End of the stick

  • Short Shrift

  • A Shot Across The Bows

  • The Shot heard 'round the world

  • A Shot in The Arm

  • A Shot in The Dark

  • Show A Leg

  • Show Your Mettle

  • Show your true colours

  • Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

  • Shut Your Cake-Hole

  • Sick Puppy

  • A Sight for Sore Eyes

  • Silence is Golden

  • Silly Billy

  • Silver Bullet

  • Sitting Duck

  • At Sixes and Sevens

  • Skeletons in the closet

  • Skid Row

  • By The Skin of Your Teeth

  • The Sky is the limit

  • Sleep Like A Top

  • A Sledgehammer to crack a nut

  • Sleep Tight

  • Sloane Ranger

  • Slow Poke

  • Slush Fund

  • Sly as a fox

  • Smart Alec

  • Smart Casual

  • Smoke and Mirrors

  • So Long

  • So Sue Me

  • Soap-Dodger

  • Sold Down The River

  • Some Are Born Great

  • Some Men are Born Mediocre

  • Something Old, something new, something borrowed

  • Something for The Weekend Sir?

  • Son of a gun

  • Son Of A Gun : 2

  • A Sorry Sight

  • Sound Bite

  • Sour Grapes

  • Space : The Final Frontier

  • Spaghetti on the wall

  • Spare the rod and spoil the child

  • Speak Off The Cuff

  • Speak of the Devil

  • Speak of the Devil : 2

  • Speak Softly and carry a big stick

  • Special Relationship

  • Spend A Penny

  • Spelling-Bee

  • Spick and Span

  • Spill The Beans

  • Spin A Yarn

  • Spin Doctor

  • Spitting Image

  • Spruce-Up

  • Square Meal

  • Squeaky Bum Time

  • Star-Crossed Lovers

  • Start from Scratch

  • Stark, Raving Mad

  • Stave Off

  • Stand and Deliver

  • Stand-Up Guy

  • Standing on the shoulders of giants

  • Steal A March

  • Steal One's Thunder

  • A Sticky Wicket

  • Stink to high heaven

  • Keep a Stiff Upper Lip

  • Stiffen The Sinews

  • Stone The Crows

  • Stone The Crows : 2

  • A Stone's Throw

  • Stony-Hearted

  • Stool Pigeon

  • As Straight As A Die

  • Straight and Narrow

  • Straight as an arrow

  • Straight from the horse's mouth

  • Straight from the horse's mouth : 2

  • Strain At The Leash

  • Strait and Narrow

  • Stranger Danger

  • Strike while the iron is hot

  • Stuff and Nonsense

  • Stump Someone

  • Stump Up

  • Such is Life

  • Sucking Hind Tit

  • Surf and Turf

  • Surfing

  • Survival of The Fittest

  • Suspension of Disbelief

  • Swan Song

  • Sweet Fanny Adams

  • Swing The Lead






    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with T.


  • The Tail Wagging The Dog

  • Take A Back Seat

  • Take a Dive

  • Take Down a Peg or Two

  • Take a Powder

  • Take Another Tack

  • Take By Storm

  • Take Potluck

  • Take someone down a peg

  • Take The Bit between your teeth

  • Take The Day Off

  • Take the guilt off the gingerbread

  • Takes The Cake

  • Take The Cake : 2

  • Take The Mickey

  • Take Umbrage

  • Take With a Grain of Salt

  • Taken Aback

  • Talk of The Devil

  • Talk to The Hand

  • Tanstaafl

  • Technicolor Yawn

  • Teflon President

  • Tell It to the marines

  • Test Your Mettle

  • That is All Folks

  • That Is one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind

  • The Apple of My Eye

  • The Back of Beyond

  • The Balloon goes up

  • The Bee's Knees

  • The Best laid schemes of mice and men

  • The Big Apple

  • The Big Easy

  • The Bitter End

  • The Blind leading The Blind

  • The Bottom Line

  • The Bowels of The Earth

  • The Bread of Life

  • The Buck Stops Here

  • The Buck Stops Here : 2

  • The Call of The Wild

  • The Camera Cannot Lie

  • The Chickens come home to roost

  • The Cold Shoulder

  • The Collywobbles

  • The Course of True Love never did run smooth

  • The Crack of Doom

  • The Crapper

  • The Customer is always right

  • The Cut of Your Jib

  • The Darkest Hour is just before the dawn

  • The Devil Incarnate

  • The Devil takes the hindmost

  • The Devil to Pay

  • The Die has been cast

  • The Early Bird catches The Worm

  • The Elephant in The Room

  • The Exception which proves The Rule

  • Living Off The fat of the land

  • The Face that launched a thousand ships

  • The Female of the species is more deadly than the male

  • The Fifth Beatle

  • The Floozie in The Jacuzzi

  • The Fly in The Ointment

  • The Full Monty

  • The Game is Up

  • The Great Unwashed

  • The Hairy Eyeball

  • The Heebie-Jeebies

  • The Last Straw

  • The Living Daylights

  • Gild The Lily

  • The Love that dare not speak its name

  • The Moving Finger Writes

  • The Mutt's Nuts

  • The Nth Degree

  • The Pen is mightier than the sword

  • The Pen is mightier than the sword : 1

  • The Powers That Be

  • The Pot calling the kettle black

  • The Proof is in the pudding

  • The Proof of The Pudding : 2

  • The Road less travelled

  • The Seven-Year Itch

  • The Shot Heard 'round the world

  • The Smoking Lamp is Out

  • The Sky is The Limit

  • The Third Degree

  • The Triumph of hope over experience

  • The Usual Suspects

  • The Whole Kit and Caboodle

  • The Whole Nine Yards

  • The Whole Nine Yards : 2

  • The Whole Shebang

  • The World is Your Oyster

  • The Writing is on the wall

  • The Writing is on the wall : 2

  • The Year Dot

  • The Yellow Peril

  • There's An R in the month

  • There are three kinds of lies.

  • There is no Alternative

  • There is no such thing as a free lunch

  • Thick and Thin

  • A Thing of Beauty is a joy forever

  • Things that go bump in the night

  • Put on Your Thinking Cap

  • Third Time Lucky

  • A Thorn in The Flesh

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill

  • Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

  • Three Score and Ten

  • Three Sheets to the wind

  • Three Squares

  • Three Strikes and you are out

  • Through Thick and Thin

  • Throw a monkey wrench into the works

  • Throw Someone to the wolves

  • Throw your hat into the ring

  • Thumbs Up

  • Ticked Off

  • Tickle The Ivories

  • Tickled Pink

  • Tie The Knot

  • Tied to her apron strings

  • Till the cows come home

  • Tilting at Windmills

  • Time and Tide wait for no man

  • A Tinker's Damn

  • Tit for Tat

  • Tits-Up

  • To a T

  • To Badger someon

  • To Be or not to be

  • To Be beside yourself

  • To Be fed up

  • To Boldly Go where no man has gone before

  • To Boot

  • To Bring Home The Bacon

  • To Cast the first stone

  • To Chance your arm

  • To Close Ranks

  • To Egg On

  • To Fall Foul

  • To Feather One's Nest

  • To Fork Out

  • To Get Fired

  • To Go Haywire

  • To Go the whole hog

  • To Harp On

  • To Have A Field Day

  • To Have A Gammy Leg

  • To Have Cold Feet

  • To Hedge One's Bets

  • To Hell in a hand basket

  • To Knock (or beat) the tar out of

  • To Know Beans

  • To Lark About

  • To Play Hookey

  • To Run Amok

  • To Save one's bacon

  • To Shoot The Crow

  • To Skin A Cat

  • To Sleep

  • To Take Aback

  • To Talk Gibberish

  • To The Bitter End

  • To The Manner Born

  • To Travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

  • To Undermine

  • To Wreak Havock

  • Toe-Curling

  • Toe The Line

  • Tomorrow is another day

  • Tongue in Cheek

  • Toodle-oo

  • Too Much of a good thing

  • Top Dog

  • Top Drawer

  • Top Notch

  • Topsy Turvy

  • Touch and Go

  • Would Not Touch with a barge-pole

  • Touchy-Feely

  • Tout De Suite

  • Tower of Strength

  • Train Surfing

  • Trench Mouth

  • Trick or Treat

  • Trip The Light Fantastic

  • True Blue

  • Truth Will Out

  • Tuckered Out

  • Turkey Shoot

  • Turn The Tables

  • Turn Up Trumps

  • Turn A Blind Eye

  • Twelve Good Men and True

  • Twenty Four Seven

  • Twenty Three Skidoo

  • Two Cents' Worth

  • As alike as Two Peas in a pod









    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with ~U~.


  • Under My Wing

  • Under The Gun

  • Keep It Under Your Hat

  • Under The Weather

  • Get Underway

  • Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

  • The Unkindest Cut of All

  • The Great Unwashed

  • Up A Blind Alley

  • Up A Gum Tree

  • Up The Creek without a paddle

  • Upper Crust

  • Upper Hand

  • Upset The Apple Cart

  • Up The Duff

  • Up to Snuff

  • Ups-a-Daisy

  • Urban Myth

  • The Usual Suspects

  • Using A Sledgehammer to crack a nut





    • This is the largest collection of Phrases beginning with W.


  • Walk The Plank

  • Warts and All

  • Wake Up Living

  • We are a Grandmother

  • We are not Amused

  • Wearing your heart on your sleeve

  • We Few, we happy few, we band of brothers

  • We Have Seen Better Days

  • We Know where you live

  • Wear The Trousers

  • Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve

  • Weasel Words

  • Wee-Wee

  • Well-Heeled

  • Well You're Not Missing Much

  • Wet behind the ears

  • What A Piece of work is man

  • What Are You like?

  • What God Has joined together let no man put asunder

  • What is not to like?

  • What is the skinny?

  • What is up Doc?

  • What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other...

  • What Part of no don't you understand?

  • What You See is what you get

  • When It Comes to the crunch

  • When The Chips Are Down

  • When The Shit hits the fan

  • Where There is muck there's brass

  • Whet Your Appetite

  • While You Live, tell truth and shame the Devil!

  • Whipping Boy

  • Whistle down the wind

  • Whistle For It

  • As White As Snow

  • White Bread

  • White Elephant

  • The Whole Kit and Caboodle

  • The Whole Nine Yards

  • The Whole Shebang

  • Whoops-a-Daisy

  • A Wide Berth

  • Widow's Peak

  • Wild and Woolly

  • Wild Goose Chase

  • Wild Goose Chase : 2

  • Willy-Nilly

  • Win Hands Down

  • Win One for The Gipper

  • Wing and a prayer

  • Wing It

  • Wish You Were Here

  • With a grain of salt

  • With Bated Breath

  • Woe is Me

  • A Wolf in sheep's clothing

  • A Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

  • Women and Children First

  • Wool Gathering

  • Word Association Football

  • Word for Word

  • A Word in your shell-like

  • Words Ending in GRY

  • Work to a deadline

  • Worth Its Salt

  • Would Not Touch with a barge-pole

  • The Writing is on the wall

  • Wrong End of the stick




    • Phrases from Shakespeare


  • It is Meat and Drink to me
  • Lay it on with a trowel
  • Lie Low
  • Like The Dickens
  • Love is Blind
  • Makes your hair stand on end
  • Men's Evil Manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
  • Milk of Human Kindness
  • Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
  • More Fool You
  • More honoured in the breach than in the observance
  • Much ado about nothing
  • Mum is The Word
  • My Salad Days
  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be
  • Night Owl
  • No more cakes and ale?
  • Now is the winter of our discontent
  • O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
  • Off With His Head
  • Oh, That Way Madness lies
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
  • Out of The Jaws of Death
  • Pound of Flesh
  • Primrose Path
  • Rhyme nor Reason
  • Salad Days
  • Sans Teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
  • Screw your courage to the sticking place
  • Send Him Packing
  • Set One's Teeth on Edge
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  • Short Shrift
  • Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil
  • Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
  • Some are born great
  • Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  • Star-Crossed Lovers
  • Stiffen The Sinews
  • Stony-Hearted
  • Such stuff as dreams are made on
  • The bowels of the earth
  • The Course of True Love never did run smooth
  • The Crack of Doom
  • The Devil Incarnate
  • The game is afoot
  • The Game is Up
  • The quality of mercy is not strained
  • The Queen's English
  • The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
  • The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
  • Thereby Hangs A Tale
  • There's Method in My Madness
  • This is the short and the long of it
  • This is very midsummer madness
  • This Precious Stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
  • Though This Be madness, yet there is method in it
  • To be or not To be : That is the question
  • To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub
  • Too much of a good thing
  • Truth Will Out
  • Under The Greenwood Tree
  • Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
  • Vanish into thin air
  • We Few, we happy few, we band of brothers
  • We Have Seen Better Days
  • Wear your heart on your sleeve
  • What a piece of work is man
  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions






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