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- Clicked into place - Tim 08/September/11 (1)
- Out to gander pasture - Bill 08/September/11 (1)
- Grin like a wampus cat - David Grinstead 08/September/11 (1)
- Drop of York - David Smith 24/August/11 (1)
- ...like the Devil - John Szabo 23/August/11 (1)
- Around Laura's house - M. True 19/August/11 (1)
- Paragon of virtue - Bill 19/August/11 (1)
- As heavy as a dead priest - Susan Gilmore 12/August/11 (1)
- Hanging your liver out - sean 12/August/11 (1)
- Janet Ferritto - Let loose the pigeons 12/August/11 (1)
- Side-eye - ESC 12/August/11 (0)
- Go fly a kite - Bill 08/August/11 (4)
- Wizard of Oz disease - ESC 08/August/11 (0)
- Tar baby - ESC 03/August/11 (0)
- Pee a ring around - BarbaraE 03/August/11 (2)
- Give them the green weenie - ESC 28/July/11 (0)
- 27 Club - ESC 25/July/11 (1)
- 27 Club - Gary Martin 03/August/11 (0)
- Take a bung - ikinengland 24/July/11 (1)
- Load of tosh - daphne green 21/July/11 (1)
- Because they are there - Micky Montoya 21/July/11 (1)
- Plug and chug - Chip 20/July/11 (0)
- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - Claude Taylor Moore 19/July/11 (2)
- Curtains - Tony 19/July/11 (1)
- The wages of sin is death - stabeek 19/July/11 (1)
- It's all over red rover - Greg 19/July/11 (1)
- Phrases not in the Bible - ESC 18/July/11 (0)
- Tin pot god - Roger 17/July/11 (2)
- Oft told tales come true in the telling - jack depalma 16/July/11 (0)
- august visitor - Ama 15/July/11 (1)
- Can't tell a bee from a bull's foot - David 14/July/11 (0)
- A treat - Kirsten 14/July/11 (0)
- Writing a skinback - ESC 14/July/11 (0)
- Chinaman's grave - Renee Haigh 14/July/11 (0)
- Booby Hatch - Dawn Kidd 12/July/11 (2)
- Intenret phrases - Purle 09/July/11 (2)
- Wilbur's newground - David Dougherty 09/July/11 (1)
- Ungodly hour - Sandra Yates 09/July/11 (2)
- Parson's nose - june 06/July/11 (2)
- Oh Harriet... - Michael Brenner 04/July/11 (0)
- Sorry, this isn't working for me - Jenny Laws 04/July/11 (2)
- Pick the eyes out of it - Justine 04/July/11 (1)
- Now then - dave smith 03/July/11 (0)
- Round table - Roger Schwartz 30/June/11 (1)
- Sell benefits, not features - Dries 29/June/11 (0)
- Like nobody's business - Ted Scambos 29/June/11 (0)
- Mark my words - Peter O 28/June/11 (1)
- Set/put in train - BURVILLE 28/June/11 (1)
- By the same token - Dennis McCaffrey 26/June/11 (1)
- Hippocanerious - Emma 26/June/11 (1)
- Flat out of time - Anne 22/June/11 (1)
- Shame, shame - Peggy 22/June/11 (2)
- ...is a long time in politics - Derek Neale 20/June/11 (1)
- For Good Measure - Ben Jones 19/June/11 (3)
- Long pants - bobo 18/June/11 (0)
- ...like a football bat - Tee Rob 17/June/11 (1)
- Can you dig it? - Schmidt4Brains 17/June/11 (2)
- Bazzing gradley - alix 17/June/11 (1)
- On the box - Mike 15/June/11 (1)
- Raining on both sides of the street. - Gary Martin 15/June/11 (0)
- Don't trouble trouble - Tony M 15/June/11 (1)
- Jump to Moses - Judith Carlson 14/June/11 (0)
- Mudslinging - rns 11/June/11 (1)
- Queen of Sheba - Catherine 10/June/11 (0)
- Bedtime saying - Andrew Brace 10/June/11 (0)
- I don't boil my cabbage twice - ESC 09/June/11 (2)
- Flanelled fools... - upkar yadav 03/June/11 (1)
- Up the Pole - spafon7e 30/May/11 (1)
- Fine young cannibal - Mark 30/May/11 (1)
- Swear by Alexsander's bear - Robert 29/May/11 (0)
- The jig is up - Bruce McKay 28/May/11 (2)
- ESC - James Briggs 26/May/11 (3)
- ESC - ESC 01/June/11 (2)
- ESC - James Briggs 03/June/11 (1)
- Pecking order - Buford 25/May/11 (1)
- Cock a hoop - Adam Foster 24/May/11 (2)
- Cut a rug - John Smith 23/May/11 (2)
- Corks a lumme - Jo Exon 23/May/11 (1)
- Out of his tree - Richard Healy 21/May/11 (0)
- Get your ears lowered - Ed Margerum 16/May/11 (2)
- On the Fritz - Frank Flanagan 15/May/11 (1)
- G-Spot - Caroline 13/May/11 (2)
- G-Spot - Victoria S Dennis 14/May/11 (1)
- Whatcha cock - Gared Daniel 10/May/11 (2)
- Heads will roll - Jay Pea 09/May/11 (0)
- Pull your socks up - laura 09/May/11 (1)
- Sum-mix-ten - Lyubomir Ganev 09/May/11 (0)
- Save me cobbs - larryg 09/May/11 (0)
- Make the nut - larry 09/May/11 (1)
- Ducks on a pond - Dave 09/May/11 (1)
- Not half bad - Robert 09/May/11 (1)
- POSH - Garry Smith 07/May/11 (2)
- POSH - David FG 08/May/11 (1)
- POSH - Gary Martin 09/May/11 (0)
- Second chance - David 05/May/11 (0)
- Australian phrases - Jessica Dwyer 05/May/11 (3)
- Leans toward Sherbondy's - Kelli Kallenborn 04/May/11 (1)
- Open a can of whoop ass - Robert Salsman 02/May/11 (0)
- Every fiber of my being - CC 29/April/11 (1)
- Say boo to a goose - barbara 28/April/11 (4)
- As rich as a Nazi - Mike 27/April/11 (1)
- Monkey business - Rida 22/April/11 (1)
- Shafted - jsb 22/April/11 (3)
- Shafted - Baceseras 22/April/11 (2)
- Shafted - Victoria S Dennis 23/April/11 (1)
- Heir and spare - Caro 22/April/11 (0)
- Starving in China - Judy 22/April/11 (1)
- Pull a permit - Jim 22/April/11 (1)
- Property ladder - Ade 21/April/11 (0)
- Got me hangin' - Rachael 19/April/11 (1)
- A gentleman has just pulled my cork - Donna 15/April/11 (1)
- Foot in mouth - robert 15/April/11 (1)
- Vanish into thin air - Flynn 13/April/11 (1)
- An elephant giving birth to a mouse - John Franck 13/April/11 (1)
- Fair Winds and Following Seas - CPO Burns 12/April/11 (1)
- Plate of ham - fenella 12/April/11 (2)
- Bite the bullet - Charlie Dixon 12/April/11 (1)
- Black as your hat - mars 12/April/11 (1)
- Coo coo ka choo - Susan 12/April/11 (1)
- In like Flynn - Eric 12/April/11 (1)
- Thrown to the wolves come from - Zach 09/April/11 (1)
- Loo - Facey Romford 05/April/11 (1)
- Loo - Victoria S Dennis 05/April/11 (0)
- Cock of the walk - brendan 04/April/11 (1)
- Hells half acre - Karen 02/April/11 (1)
- As sweet as a nut - Tony Noble 31/March/11 (1)
- It's like heaven on three legs - Rodica 30/March/11 (0)
- Three things known by no man... - David Samora 28/March/11 (1)
- Black as sin - Peter Ellis 25/March/11 (1)
- Pull an allnighter - Terri 25/March/11 (0)
- Hadn't twigged - Will Barrows 22/March/11 (2)
- Short shrift - Elizabeth S.O. 20/March/11 (1)
- God hates a coward - Don H. 20/March/11 (0)
- All things in moderatio - Pickles 20/March/11 (1)
- Cover my nut - Joe 20/March/11 (0)
- Mad as a hatter - Mark ellerby 17/March/11 (2)
- On my person - Doodadman 16/March/11 (1)
- Bread and butter - Mike 16/March/11 (2)
- Of mice and men - Livy Packham 16/March/11 (1)
- Living on the fat side of a nickel - Lorie 14/March/11 (0)
- Peter out - steve baird 11/March/11 (0)
- Everyone and thier mother/brother - Burke 11/March/11 (1)
- For Pete's sake - Steve 11/March/11 (0)
- Bare-faced - Barbara Peterson 08/March/11 (1)
- Ball of blue - Kevin Magee 08/March/11 (1)
- Blow smoke... - Robbie Robertson 08/March/11 (0)
- Says the actress to the bishop - Antonio 07/March/11 (1)
- Stir the pot - Norbert Walz 07/March/11 (0)
- Long on promises, short on delivery - JJ 07/March/11 (0)
- Blue million - Donna Viar 06/March/11 (1)
- Thrown for a six - Ruth 05/March/11 (1)
- Chop-chop - Daniel Davis 04/March/11 (0)
- Sock it to 'em - Pete Yates 02/March/11 (0)
- If you do not fear the lion in winter... - mike kennedy 28/February/11 (0)
- Black-hand Gang - Dave Wolfy 27/February/11 (1)
- Got the hots - Richard Whissen 27/February/11 (1)
- Lift your feet and trolley at the window - Sheila 24/February/11 (1)
- A flea on a dog's ass - Bob 24/February/11 (0)
- Lost the room - yamex5 24/February/11 (0)
- Put to the pin... - Elaine 24/February/11 (0)
- I'll be mom - Alexandra 21/February/11 (1)
- Shake it off - Vair 21/February/11 (0)
- Slicker than... - Ted 21/February/11 (1)
- We grow too soon old... - Andi 19/February/11 (1)
- Gilded paradise - Barbara Peterson 19/February/11 (1)
- Tea Jenny - Tommy 18/February/11 (0)
- Spot the deliberate mistake - Vicky J 18/February/11 (0)
- Neat but not gaudy - Barbara Peterson 18/February/11 (2)
- On St. Methuselah Day - Autumn 15/February/11 (0)
- That's the badger - Simon 15/February/11 (0)
- Ladybug - Doreen 14/February/11 (1)
- Ladybug - James Briggs 15/February/11 (0)
- Bug off - Bill Williams 13/February/11 (1)
- Bug off - Victoria S Dennis 13/February/11 (0)
- Pan crack - Jacqueline 13/February/11 (0)
- Under the table - Chris Nordberg 13/February/11 (0)
- Under the weather - Chris Nordberg 13/February/11 (1)
- Farting around - Trish R 11/February/11 (1)
- Too many to shake a stick at - Chris Nordberg 09/February/11 (0)
- Game changer - Tomas Kalmar 09/February/11 (0)
- Don't mind if I do - Bebe 07/February/11 (0)
- Super Bowl singing - ESC 07/February/11 (0)
- Life gets tedious don't it - Alan Plant 07/February/11 (1)
- Private religion - ESC 04/February/11 (0)
- Without heart we would be mere machines - Neil 04/February/11 (0)
- Fixed a bound - Alexandra 01/February/11 (1)
- Turfed out - Paul Binns 30/January/11 (1)
- A tes souhaits - Paul Traynor 28/January/11 (1)
- Hell's teeth - Sally Price 28/January/11 (0)
- Hot as blue blazes - Lorraine 27/January/11 (1)
- Reality check - James 27/January/11 (2)
- Boo boo - Scott 27/January/11 (2)
- Boo boo - David FG 28/January/11 (1)
- Boo boo - Brian from Shawnee 29/January/11 (0)
- When men were men - Elise 25/January/11 (0)
- Bite the Bullet - David Griffiths 25/January/11 (3)
- A hard dog to keep on the porch - Holly 25/January/11 (2)
- God's tithe and our offering - Brian McCarthy 24/January/11 (1)
- Ungodly hour - Josh888 24/January/11 (1)
- Within an inch of your life - Ray 21/January/11 (0)
- Good deed for the day - Elaine 21/January/11 (1)
- It doesn't matter a lick - Claire Houck 17/January/11 (1)
- A can of worms - Dave Bennett 17/January/11 (0)
- Tell me who your friends are - Niles Day 15/January/11 (1)
- Greenwich Manners - Anita 15/January/11 (2)
- If culture be the food of man - David 14/January/11 (1)
- How do you like those apples - locopato 14/January/11 (1)
- Forgot to carry the two - Bob Morris 14/January/11 (0)
- The bin's ash remarkable - Simon Bland 13/January/11 (2)
- Haul my cookies - Krissy 12/January/11 (0)
- The serious and the delirious - ESC 11/January/11 (0)
- Leave the two cents plain - G 11/January/11 (1)
- See a bear, shoot a bear - Andrew 11/January/11 (0)
- Keep a bull pup - Paul Davis 11/January/11 (4)
- In the pink - Paul Davis 11/January/11 (2)
- Music to my ears - Reece Mclaughlin 10/January/11 (1)
- Feather the foam - Donna Casiday 10/January/11 (1)
- Not rocket science - Dorthy Inglis 08/January/11 (3)
- Speak the truth, and speak it ever - Georg Sutterlin 07/January/11 (0)
- The length of a horse between us - RP 07/January/11 (1)
- Such is life - Victoria Mathis 05/January/11 (1)
- Happy place - T 05/January/11 (2)
- Pay a compliment - Colin 05/January/11 (1)
- Dropping like flies - Sharon Tobey 01/January/11 (0)
- In and out like a dog at fair - Jessica Frizell 28/December/10 (1)
- Gumperson's Law - Traindriver 23/December/10 (1)
- At 29 box, cried old Mrs. Cox - Tom McLean 23/December/10 (0)
- Happy Festivus! - ESC 23/December/10 (0)
- Hi-Yo Silver! - ESC 22/December/10 (0)
- Wind yer neck in, Maureen. - Po 22/December/10 (2)
- Shake her skin-coat - Mark 20/December/10 (0)
- Flat out - Lee 20/December/10 (1)
- Flat out - Gary Martin 20/December/10 (0)
- We have been here before - Anders Klitgaard 19/December/10 (1)
- The whole nine yards... - Paul 19/December/10 (2)
- Giving the business - DB 19/December/10 (1)
- The rest is silence - Ray Eston Smith Jr 19/December/10 (1)
- Let us never speak of this again - Vair 19/December/10 (0)
- Face the music - Dee 18/December/10 (1)
- Have no cotter with - Pam 18/December/10 (3)
- As you make your bed... - Paul 18/December/10 (1)
- All protocols observed - Fran 17/December/10 (2)
- Cold turkey phrase - ESC 16/December/10 (0)
- Found under a gooseberry bush - Philip 15/December/10 (4)
- Colder than a witch's tit - Doug Kasper 15/December/10 (2)
- Brass Monkeys - Alan 15/December/10 (2)
- Blare of strumpet - Dr. William Croom 14/December/10 (0)
- You almost always regret prints... - ESC 12/December/10 (2)
- Buck naked - Rich 10/December/10 (1)
- Pick your brain - Neil Scott 09/December/10 (0)
- Nosebleed seats - Anne 09/December/10 (1)
- Are you Dunn? - Paul 05/December/10 (2)
- A Phrase Finder credit - ESC 02/December/10 (1)
- Sitting up like Jackie - Maggie 01/December/10 (1)
- Time and circumstance - ESC 30/November/10 (3)
- Top that, Socrates! - Vroom 30/November/10 (0)
- Squirrels gathering nuts in a flurry, will cause snow to gather in a hurry - Amelie Obaidy 29/November/10 (1)
- Bum/bad show - Rachel Meadors 29/November/10 (1)
- Smack-bang - Sean 26/November/10 (2)
- Pull your horns in - lucy robbins 25/November/10 (1)
- The shock of the new - Ian 25/November/10 (1)
- If I told you, I'd have to kill you - Clifton Wolfe 25/November/10 (0)
- Fed up - mpleblanc 25/November/10 (1)
- Fed up - Victoria S Dennis 25/November/10 (0)
- Bail/bale - Ron 24/November/10 (4)
- Bail/bale - Brian from Shawnee 25/November/10 (3)
- GoForThisWorld - Left as an exercise for the reader 23/November/10 (0)
- More flies with honey - James 21/November/10 (1)
- Up and died - Jocelyn 21/November/10 (0)
- Hung with a new rope - Bill 21/November/10 (1)
- Beef - jennifer d 20/November/10 (2)
- Beef - David FG 21/November/10 (1)
- Beef - James Briggs 21/November/10 (0)
- Lord-a-lovin - David 20/November/10 (1)
- Getting along like a house on fire - frozzee 20/November/10 (0)
- Slick as a whistle - BobS 18/November/10 (1)
- Pat down - Gabe 18/November/10 (1)
- Pat down - Victoria S Dennis 18/November/10 (0)
- End of - Carol Harrison 17/November/10 (1)
- End of - Victoria S Dennis 18/November/10 (0)
- What would Prudence say? - Pam 14/November/10 (2)
- For crying in the mud - Bill 14/November/10 (2)
- Going Jessy - Dave Fratcher 13/November/10 (1)
- Quotation - source? - Rebeca Trevino 13/November/10 (1)
- You can't trust anyone over thirty - Judson 12/November/10 (3)
- Too many rules removes man’s need to think - Craig McDonald 10/November/10 (3)
- Get off the cross.... - Mrs Morden 09/November/10 (0)
- Hysterical Hannah - Holly 09/November/10 (1)
- posh, rain cats and dogs, brass knobs - Garry Smith 08/November/10 (1)
- At your disposal - Gordon Pfannenstiel 06/November/10 (1)
- King Canute problem - ESC 05/November/10 (0)
- Crabs and ice water - Karen E. Lynn 04/November/10 (0)
- To be switzerland - David Kiener 04/November/10 (1)
- Face the Music - Bob Graham 02/November/10 (1)
- Kill the cat and burn the gourds - Melanie 01/November/10 (0)
- In the same league - Camilla Lo 01/November/10 (1)
- Cutting the fool - Matt Taylor 01/November/10 (1)
- Can of Corn - James Briggs 31/October/10 (0)
- Victorian way of death - Sophie 30/October/10 (1)
- Lost the bubble - Mike S 30/October/10 (0)
- All the way to bright - Graham 28/October/10 (0)
- Pride goeth before a fal - Dave 28/October/10 (1)
- Brownie Moment - Brian from Shawnee 28/October/10 (4)
- ...and the price of meat - Colette 26/October/10 (0)
- Curse me for a round-head dog! - Steve Weikal 26/October/10 (1)
- Speak the truth, and speak it ever... - Georg Sutterlin 26/October/10 (0)
- Clean your clock - Greems 25/October/10 (0)
- Top Ten lists - ESC 25/October/10 (1)
- Give it the onion - Tammy 24/October/10 (0)
- Soap Dodger - Stephen 24/October/10 (0)
- That's how I roll - Debpriya De 23/October/10 (1)
- Broad daylight - Chris 23/October/10 (1)
- What comes around goes around - Oxyman 22/October/10 (1)
- As clear as a buttonhook in the well water - Terry Harper 22/October/10 (1)
- The **** hits the fan - David M. 21/October/10 (2)
- What with - Debpriya De 21/October/10 (1)
- What with - Victoria S Dennis 21/October/10 (0)
- The family's water - Mike Dywat 21/October/10 (1)
- So long - Don 21/October/10 (3)
- So long - James Briggs 21/October/10 (2)
- So long - Victoria S Dennis 21/October/10 (1)
- Killing two birds with one stone - Kathy 19/October/10 (1)
- Happy medium/median - Tom B 19/October/10 (1)
- Ps and Qs - Ian Horwill 19/October/10 (0)
- What were they thinking? - ESC 18/October/10 (0)
- Rabbititis - ESC 14/October/10 (1)
- Jealous Harry - Mike Bledsoe 06/October/10 (1)
- Bag of Daz - JG 05/October/10 (1)
- To Each His Own - Joel Deacon 05/October/10 (7)
- Office buzzwords - ESC 04/October/10 (2)
- Here goes nothing - Clint Dolenz 03/October/10 (1)
- Crazier than a Bessie Bug - Janna Haymes Massey 02/October/10 (1)
- What goes around comes around - Leslie 02/October/10 (4)
- Corking hot - Paul Barker 01/October/10 (1)
- Shooting the agate - ESC 30/September/10 (0)
- Scared out of my wits - Henry McLaughlin 30/September/10 (2)
- Flush with cash - Donna 29/September/10 (3)
- Going round in a horseshoe - Eve Higgs 27/September/10 (1)
- Hobson's Choice - Dr John Olsson 25/September/10 (0)
- Old wive's tale - Bill 24/September/10 (1)
- Cool - B Fultz 24/September/10 (1)
- Cool - Gary Martin 24/September/10 (0)
- Stick to your ribs - Jenny 23/September/10 (2)
- Mainstream media - Patricia Sears 21/September/10 (2)
- Houses of the Holy - David Gilmore 21/September/10 (1)
- April... - John Mountney 19/September/10 (4)
- April... - Gary Martin 19/September/10 (3)
- Swings and roundabouts - Alistair 17/September/10 (2)
- Bumpff - Nigel Walpole 14/September/10 (2)
- Bumpff - Victoria S Dennis 14/September/10 (1)
- Blood will tell - Aidan 14/September/10 (2)
- Do mine eyes deceive me? - Dario 13/September/10 (1)
- For England - Sarah 11/September/10 (1)
- Where there is a will there is a way - Vito Giancaspro 11/September/10 (1)
- The short end of the stick - Chris Madden 11/September/10 (2)
- Balls on the line - Miranda 10/September/10 (0)
- Reading the tea leaves - Ben Horne 10/September/10 (2)
- Health is the manifestation of internal balance - Tim 09/September/10 (1)
- Talk about me like a dog - ESC 08/September/10 (1)
- When pigs fly - Jeff Everal 08/September/10 (2)
- The equal right of the rich and the poor... - Stan Kravit 06/September/10 (0)
- As long as Pat stayed in the army - Sally Adair 06/September/10 (0)
- Knock off - Alan Brown 01/September/10 (1)
- The outside of enough - Sally Hipgrave 01/September/10 (0)
- Closing the book: RIP for the OED - James Briggs 29/August/10 (6)
- 'Til the last dog is hung - Gwen Nickel 29/August/10 (1)
- Music to my ears - Barbara Seeber 26/August/10 (1)
- Browned off - Colin Arch 25/August/10 (1)
- A kind word while I am here... - Dora 25/August/10 (0)
- A daylight second - Alethea Flynn 25/August/10 (0)
- Legs - Debbie Harris 24/August/10 (3)
- Legs - Natty 26/August/10 (0)
- Legs - Victoria S Dennis 25/August/10 (1)
- Bound to the wheel - Natty 24/August/10 (7)
- Under your belt - Bob Mulholland 23/August/10 (1)
- The White Sergeant - John Housser 23/August/10 (1)
- Can't tell a bee from a bull's foot - Colin Burt 23/August/10 (0)
- Put you best foot forward - Joshua 23/August/10 (6)
- Curiousity killed the cat - Sheila 23/August/10 (1)
- Solid as a rock - Cathie 21/August/10 (1)
- Bag of hammers - J. Hamilton 20/August/10 (1)
- Thick as Itchell - Carl Carey 20/August/10 (1)
- I destroy my enemy... - Mike 19/August/10 (0)
- From your lips to God's ear - Frank 18/August/10 (1)
- Whatever floats your boat - BobbyRay 18/August/10 (2)
- Give me a break - Don Stadtner 18/August/10 (2)
- Not eating any bread - Holly 17/August/10 (1)
- Love to death - Virginia 16/August/10 (3)
- The whole ball of wax - Janina 15/August/10 (0)
- Taking the slide - ESC 14/August/10 (0)
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