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A feather in your cap

English idiomatic phrase

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At sixes and sevens

British English idiom

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Mind your Ps and Qs

English idiom about minding manners

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Too cheap to meter

Slogan for plentiful services

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Tempest in a teapot

English idiom

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The Dog in the Manger

Metaphor about spitefulness

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Man bites dog

Aphorism in journalism

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White elephant

Idiom for impractical possessions that are expensive to maintain but cannot be disposed of

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Elephant in the room

English idiom of an obvious major problem that no one mentions

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Jack of all trades

Figure of speech

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Buck passing

English-language idiom meaning "to shift blame onto another"

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Tongue-in-cheek

Idiom indicating humor or sarcasm

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When pigs fly

Figure of speech describing an impossible event

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Chink in one's armor

Idiom referring to an area of vulnerability

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English-language idioms

Common words or phrases with non-literal meanings

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Cart before the horse

Idiom or proverb

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Square peg in a round hole

Idiom originated by Sydney Smith, used to refer to individualist nonconformity

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Hold your horses

English language idiom meaning to wait

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Stalking horse

Figure used to test an idea for a third party

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Die with your boots on

Idiom for working or fighting to the end

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Cold shoulder

Phrase used to disregard someone

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Cock and bull story

English phrase

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Barking up the wrong tree

English language expression for a mistaken emphasis

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Hail fellow well met

English idiom

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Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face

Idiom about self-destructive behavior

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Exception that proves the rule

Figure of speech

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Damning with faint praise

English idiom

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Silver spoon

Idiom

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Sitting on the fence

Idiom

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Get a life (idiom)

Taunt to people focused on pointless or trivial matters

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Sea change (idiom)

English idiomatic expression

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Toe the line

Idiom meaning to conform to a standard

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The whole nine yards

Colloquial American English phrase

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Trial of the century

Sensationalistic idiom for court cases

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Trip the light fantastic

English-language idiom

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Sweetness and light

English Idiom

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Taking the piss

Commonwealth slang

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What's done is done

English idiom

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Straw that broke the camel's back

English idiom, the "last straw"

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Twiddly bits

English idiom

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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Idiomatic expression

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My two cents

Idiomatic expression for expressing an unsolicited opinion

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Turn in one's grave

Idiom

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Cloak and dagger

Idiom describing activities of espionage and subversion

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With flying colours

English-language idiom

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Mad as a March hare

English idiomatic phrase

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Back-seat driver

Passenger in a vehicle who tries to direct the operator

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Salad days

English-language idiom

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Flogging a dead horse

Idiom about futile effort

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The powers that be

Phrase referring to those who hold authority

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