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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