Picturesque Expressions: A Thematic DictionaryGale Research Company, 1985 - 770 sider |
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... live within one's means ; to adapt oneself to a situation . The implication is that given only enough cloth to make a waistcoat or vest , one cannot make a full - length coat . Thus , someone with limited funds should be prudent about ...
... live within one's means ; to adapt oneself to a situation . The implication is that given only enough cloth to make a waistcoat or vest , one cannot make a full - length coat . Thus , someone with limited funds should be prudent about ...
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... live high off the hog dates from the early 1900s . I have to do my shopping in the black market because we can't eat as high off the hog as Roosevelt and Ickes and Joe Davis and all those millionaire friends of the common man . ( Call ...
... live high off the hog dates from the early 1900s . I have to do my shopping in the black market because we can't eat as high off the hog as Roosevelt and Ickes and Joe Davis and all those millionaire friends of the common man . ( Call ...
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... live at rack and manger , 5.1 . live high off the hog , 14.3 . live in a glass house , 400.12 . live in cotton wool , 204.5 . live like fighting cocks , 164.7 . live on borrowed time , 110.3 . live tally , 233.13 . live under the cat's foot ...
... live at rack and manger , 5.1 . live high off the hog , 14.3 . live in a glass house , 400.12 . live in cotton wool , 204.5 . live like fighting cocks , 164.7 . live on borrowed time , 110.3 . live tally , 233.13 . live under the cat's foot ...
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19th century allusion American expression American slang expression another's Anthony Trollope applied ball became blue Briticism British expression called Charles Dickens coined colloquial common commonly connotation contexts dead describe drink early 19th century England English especially expres expression alludes expression dates expression is derived expression refers figurative sense Frederick Marryat French frequently give hand hang head heard today hence horse implies indicate John John Heywood Jonathan Swift King least literal Lord meaning ment ness night nose obsolete one's oneself onym origin P. G. Wodehouse person phrase plausible play player political popular practice pression probably proverb related term Samuel Butler Shakespeare sion Sir Walter Scott situation slang term someone someone's thing Thomas tion tive Tyburn usage usually variant verb Webster's Third William word World War II