Category:English-language idioms
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Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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- American English idioms (41 P)
B
- British English idioms (20 P)
I
- Indian English idioms (14 P)
P
- Pakistani English idioms (3 P)
Pages in category "English-language idioms"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 202 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Back-seat driver
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball
- Bed of roses
- Belling the Cat
- Best friends forever
- Between Scylla and Charybdis
- Bill matter
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Black sheep
- Blessing in disguise
- Blood, toil, tears and sweat
- Born in the purple
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Bread and butter (superstition)
- Break a leg
- Buck passing
- Bum rushing
- Bum steer
C
- Cabin fever
- Call a spade a spade
- The captain goes down with the ship
- Carrot and stick
- Cart before the horse
- Cat and mouse
- Chink in one's armor
- Chip on shoulder
- Circle the wagons
- Cloak and dagger
- Cock and bull story
- Cold shoulder
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
- Crime of the century
- Crocodile tears
- Cut to the chase
- Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face
- Cutty-sark (witch)
D
- Damning with faint praise
- Dark horse
- Dead ringer (idiom)
- Death and taxes (idiom)
- The devil is in the details
- Devil's advocate
- Die with your boots on
- The Dog in the Manger
- Don't judge a book by its cover
- Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
- Down the rabbit hole
- Down Under
- Dressing down
- Duck test
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S
- Salad days
- Salting a bird's tail
- Sands of time (idiom)
- The Satyr and the Traveller
- School of Hard Knocks
- Sea change (idiom)
- Second childhood
- Shut up
- Silver bullet
- Silver lining (idiom)
- Silver spoon
- Sin City (description)
- Sitting on the fence
- Skeleton in the closet
- Skin of my teeth
- Sliced bread
- Small matter of programming
- Smoke and mirrors
- Speak of the devil
- Spitting distance
- List of sports idioms
- Square peg in a round hole
- Stalking horse
- Stiff upper lip
- A stone's throw away
- Stop press
- Sweetness and light
T
- Taking the piss
- Tall tale
- Tall, dark and handsome
- Teaching grandmother to suck eggs
- Tell it to the Marines
- Tempest in a teapot
- The pot calling the kettle black
- There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
- Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- Throw to the wolves
- Tip of the tongue
- To rob Peter to pay Paul
- Toe the line
- Tongue-in-cheek
- Too cheap to meter
- The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- Trial of the century
- Trip the light fantastic
- Turn in one's grave
- Twiddly bits
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