Phrases & Sayings

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woofas

Whiter than white?

My wife has just bought a deodorant which claims "invisible white marks". If they are invisible, how do we know that they are white???

~Wingnut~

Hi all!! I am setting up my Justgiving page for the race for life this year and am stuck on the correct grammer I should use for the name of our group. I am running with my 2 daughters so have called...

cas42

Similes

Can anyone please finish these similes for me. The can be anything (but suitable for an 11 year old). 1) The candyfloss tasted like .......... 2) When I went on the Big Dipper it felt like .........

santan

a month of sundays

i am doing a quiz where all the answers must contain a day or a month.Am totally stuck on the last one sandy (3,2,4,6,4) any help who'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks....

heretic666

I should cocoa

Reused by Supergrass as an album title; I think it was common usage in the RAF in WWII and means NO WAY. Any ideas as to derivation?

CHARNA

Are these sayings or phrases

Are these correct or am l just trying to make them fit the questions, CTHLOAD Chew the hind leg off a donkey, SACBOH Show a clean bill of health, SWOTM She was over the moon, TFPOTJ The final part of...

Alliegid

Affect or effect

..... have a detrimental effect/affect on his revision. I think effect, but want to be sure x...

abstibus

Not wuthering or withering

Can anyone come up with a word, possibly dialect or colloquial, that describes a decrepit, mouldering house? It's something like the words above, but not what I want. It's annoying me - could it be...

Blueflame

What did it mean?

When i was a lad (in the 50s) and being naughty or cheeky, my great aunt ( a Yorkshire lass ) used to shout "dash your rags" you little etc. I've never heard the term since,has anyone else...

Zhukov

This aint much cop

This was a line in a TV Drama,set in WW1.It is still used widely today! What is "much cop",or "cop"?...

cas42

Example sentences

Can you please give exmpales of sentences using the following words: 1) Unsubtly 2) Slackly Thanks for any help...

aunceyday

Touch wood.

When did 'touch wood' become a regular saying, and why? Any body know? Thanks.

sp1814

Disaffected youth

There's a word to describe people who feel the world owes them a living. It's a word that was used all the time last year on the news, and I can't remember what it is...any ideas???

Jade1986

If you were a drug, would you be legal or illegal? How addicting are you?

derekpara

' By dint of.....'

Very rarely heard now, but I've always been puzzled about the origins of the expression, ' By dint of....' something or other. Any ideas ?

Groupie

If you been married quite a while this could be true.

One lazy Sunday morning the wife and I were quiet and thoughtful, sitting around the breakfast table when I said to her, "When I die, sell all my tools and stuff, right away." "Now why...