Origins of Sayings and Proverbs
Origins of Sayings and Proverbs
List of Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms
Here is our list of common proverbs, sayings, and idioms.A
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- back to square one
- balls against the wall
- batten down the hatches
- balloon has gone up, once the
- beat about the bush
- beat a retreat
- bee's knees, it's the
- berk
- bite the bullet
- bite off more than you can chew
- bitter end
- bog standard
- booby trap
- as bright as a button
- by and large
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- chance your arm
- cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, it's
- carry coals to Newcastle
- caught red-handed, to be
- cock and bull story, a
- crocodile tears, to weep
- cut and run
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- pan out nicely
- pass with flying colours
- piping hot
- plumb the depths
- pull your finger out
- push the boat out
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- salad days
- sent to Coventry
- skeletons in the cupboard
- sick as a parrot
- sling your hook
- spick and span
- spill the beans
- splice the mainbrace
- strike while the iron is hot
- square meal
- swing the lead
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