- ‘Worldwide’ Idioms
- A bad break
- A bad hair day
- A bad workman always blames his tools
- A big ask
- A bigger bang for your buck
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A bite to eat
- A blessing in disguise
- A bull and cow
- A bunch of fives
- A chip on your shoulder
- A diamond in the rough
- A dime a dozen
- A doubting thomas
- A drop in the bucket
- A fate worse than death
- A feather in ones cap
- A fish out of water
- A flash in the pan
- A fly in the ointment
- A fly on the wall
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- A fools paradise
- A foot in the door
- A golden key can open any door
- A hot potato
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- A knight in shining armour
- A leopard cant change his spots
- A little bird told me
- A load of cobblers
- A load of codswallop
- A lot on your plate
- A man after my own heart
- A miss is as good as a mile
- A penny for your thoughts
- A penny saved is a penny earned
- A picture paints a thousand words
- A piece of cake
- A pig in a poke
- A place in the sun
- A red rag to a bull
- A safe pair of hands
- A sea change
- A shot in the arm
- A sight for sore eyes
- A skeleton in the closet
- A slap on the wrist
- A sledgehammer to crack a nut
- A sorry sight
- A stitch in time saves nine
- A stones throw
- A taste of your own medicine
- A thorn in my flesh
- A toss up
- A wolf in sheeps clothing
- About face
- About time
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder
- Abso bloody lutely
- Ace in the hole
- Achilles heel
- Across the board
- Act your age
- Actions speak louder than words
- Adage
- Adams ale
- Add fuel to the fire
- Add insult to injury
- Against the clock
- Agreement
- Aint my first rodeo
- Al desko
- Al fresco
- All at sea
- All bark and no bite
- All greek to me
- All in a days work
- All in all
- All kidding aside
- All set
- All the way
- All thumbs
- All to cock
- All together now
- Alley cat
- Alpha mom
- Alphabet soup
- Amber nectar
- America
- Amped up
- An act of god
- An arm and a leg
- An axe to grind
- An open and shut case
- Animals
- Ankle biter
- Aphorism
- Apples and pears
- As high as a kite
- At the drop of a hat
- Australian origin
- Away with the fairies
- Baby brain
- Baby bump
- Baby snatcher
- Back seat driver
- Back to square one
- Back to the drawing board
- Bag lady
- Bakers dozen
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Barnet fair
- Basket case
- Bat from the pavilion end
- Be a sport
- Be glad to see the back of
- Beach bum
- Bean counter
- Beat around the bush
- Beauty contest
- Bedroom tax
- Bells and whistles
- Bend over backwards
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Between the wars
- Beyond price
- Biblical
- Big fish in a small pond
- Binge watch
- Bitch slap
- Bite off more than you can chew
- Bite the dust
- Bite your tongue
- Blood blister
- Blood is thicker than water
- Blow a raspberry
- Blue
- Blue plate special
- Boat race
- Body
- Bottle and glass
- Bought the farm
- Brahms and lizst
- Brass monkey weather
- Brass tacks
- Break a leg
- Breast is best
- Bricks and mortar
- Brighton pier
- Bring your a game
- Brown bread
- Brown out
- Brum brum
- Bucket list
- Building
- Burn the midnight oil
- Business
- Bust a move
- Buy a lemon
- Calendar year
- Cant cut the mustard
- Canteen culture
- Carbon footprint
- Carpe diem
- Cast iron stomach
- Cat got your tongue?
- Caught between two stools
- Caught by the short hairs
- Chaise lounge
- Charley horse
- Chasing tail
- Cheek by jowl
- Cherry ripe
- Chew someone out
- Chicken feed
- Childhood
- Children
- Children should be seen and not heard
- China plate
- Chow down
- City bike
- Cliche
- Click bait
- Clock
- Close but no cigar
- Clothes
- Cloud cuckoo land
- Cock and bull story
- Cockney rhyming slang
- Code monkey
- Colour
- Come hell or high water
- Comedy
- Comfort women
- Company man
- Conflict
- Cop an attitude
- Corduroy road
- Country
- Country house hotel
- Crack someone up
- Cream crackered
- Crime
- Cross that bridge when you come to it
- Cross your fingers
- Crunch time
- Cry wolf
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Currant bun
- Cut corners
- Cut to the chase
- Daily grind
- Daisy roots
- Dance
- Date
- Date rape
- Day surgery
- Daylight saving time
- Dead ringer
- Dead white european male
- Death
- Designated driver
- Dial down
- Dicky dirt
- Discussing uganda
- Disgust
- Dog and bone
- Dog days of summer
- Donkeys years
- Dont bite the hand that feeds you
- Dont count your chickens before they hatch
- Dont cry over spilt milk
- Dont give up the day job
- Dont look a gift horse in the mouth
- Dont put all your eggs in one basket
- Double denim
- Double header
- Down to the wire
- Dressed to the nines
- Drink
- Drink like a fish
- Drive someone up the wall
- Dropping like flies
- Dry run
- Duvet day
- Ear popping
- Easy peasy
- Education
- Effort
- Eighty six
- Elbow grease
- Elephants trunk
- Elvis has left the building
- Emotion
- Employment
- Enhanced interrogation techniques
- Ethnic cleansing
- Euphemism
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Everything but the kitchen sink
- Evil twin
- Excellence
- Excess
- Excuse my french
- Eyebrow raising
- Face card
- Face the music
- Factory farming
- Failure
- Fairytale ending
- Family
- Far cry from
- Fashion
- Feeding frenzy
- Fell off the back of a lorry
- Fiddlesticks
- Field day
- Find your feet
- Fire the imagination
- First among equals
- First footing
- First world
- First world problem
- Fixed in your ways
- Flea market
- Flea pit
- Flesh and blood
- Flip the bird
- Flog a dead horse
- Flotsam and jetsam
- Foam at the mouth
- Food
- Food fight
- Fools gold
- French
- Frock up
- Frog and toad
- Fruit
- Fuddy duddy
- Full monty
- Full of bull
- Funny farm
- Gee gee
- Gender bender
- George raft
- Get a gold star
- Get down to brass tacks
- Get off on the wrong foot
- Get on board
- Get out of hand
- Get out of the wrong side of the bed
- Get over it
- Get your head around
- Ginger beer
- Give him an inch and hell take a mile
- Give the benefit of the doubt
- Give the slip
- Glass ceiling
- Gnats bollock
- Go ape shit
- Go belly up
- Go down like a lead balloon
- Go for broke
- Go out on a limb
- Go the extra mile
- Going to hell in a handbasket
- Good samaritan
- Good to go
- Graveyard shift
- Greasy spoon
- Great minds think alike
- Great scot
- Greek origin
- Gregory peck
- Gut feeling
- Habit
- Had a good war
- Hair
- Hair of the dog
- Hair of the dog
- Half inch
- Happiness
- Happy sad
- Harry spankers
- Haste makes waste
- Hat trick
- Have a blast
- Have a captain cook
- He makes my flesh (or skin) crawl (or creep)
- Head over heels
- Hear it on the grapevine
- Heebie jeebies
- Hell bent
- Help yourself
- Hidden in plain sight
- High and mighty
- High on the hog
- High season
- Hit the books
- Hit the hay
- Hit the nail on the head
- Hit the sack
- Hobsons choice
- Hocus pocus
- Hold your horses
- Holy shit
- Honesty
- Household items
- Hyperbole
- I cant be doing with it
- I cant think straight
- Idioms coined in Britain
- Idioms coined in the USA
- If its not one thing, its another
- In a nutshell
- In cahoots with
- In like flynn
- In limbo
- In the bag
- In the buff
- In the heat of the moment
- In the same boat
- In your face
- Inside job
- It never rains but it pours
- It takes two to tango
- Its a small world
- Its all gone pete tong
- Its not rocket science
- Ivy league
- Jack palancing
- Jam jar
- Jelly belly
- Jimmy riddle
- Joke
- Joshing me
- Jump on the bandwagon
- Jump the shark
- Just deserts
- Keep an eye on
- Keep at bay
- Keep body and soul together
- Keep your chin up
- Khyber pass
- Kick the bucket
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Knee jerk reaction
- Knee trembler
- Knock on wood
- Know the ropes
- Lame duck
- Language
- Last but not least
- Last straw
- Latin
- Legal
- Lend me your ear
- Let bygones be bygones
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Let your hair down
- Lets rewind
- Level playing field
- Like a chicken with its head cut off
- Link farm
- Link rot
- Liquor someone up
- Little devil
- Little fish in a big pond
- Loaf of bread
- Location
- Long in the tooth
- Loose cannon
- Lord fred
- Lose your head
- Lose your touch
- Luck
- Madness
- Magic mushroom
- Make a scene
- Make no bones about
- Man cave
- Many happy returns
- Mates rates
- Mea culpa
- Medical
- Mellow yellow
- Men in suits
- Method to my madness
- Military
- Mince pies
- Mind your language
- Misfortune
- Miss the boat
- Money
- Mrs mop
- Mumbo jumbo
- Mums the word
- Music
- Mutt and jeff
- My old china
- My old dutch
- Nail it
- Name
- Nature
- Nautical
- Nest egg
- Never never land
- New arrival
- New kid on the block
- New york minute
- Nine to five
- Nip slip
- Nitty gritty
- No dice
- No room to swing a cat
- No rush
- No saint
- No spring chicken
- Nonsense
- North and south
- Nose around
- Not all there
- Not playing with a full deck
- Number
- Off ones rocker
- Off the hook
- Off the record
- Old chestnut
- On a hiding to nothing
- On a wing and a prayer
- On cloud nine
- On the ball
- On the fence
- On the record
- On the same page
- On your tod
- Once in a blue moon
- Open warfare
- Out of sight
- Out of the blue
- Out on the town
- Over my dead body
- Over the top
- Paint the town red
- Partner up
- Pass the buck
- Patience
- Peachy keen
- Pedal to the metal
- Peeping tom
- Peg out
- Pen and ink
- Perfect pitch
- Phone it in
- Photo bomb
- Pig out
- Pigs ear
- Pigs might fly
- Pipe down
- Place
- Plates of meat
- Play devils advocate
- Play safe
- Play the field
- Politics
- Pommy bashing
- Porky pies
- Potatoes (or taters) in the mould
- Potty mouth
- Practice makes perfect
- Prick up your ears
- Pride
- Proverb
- Proverbial
- Pull the plug
- Pull the wool over someones eyes
- Pull your horns in
- Pulling your leg
- Put a sock in it
- Quality time
- Queer bashing
- Queer street
- Queer the pitch
- Rabbit and pork
- Rags to riches
- Raining cats and dogs
- Red letter day
- Red tape
- Reduplication
- Relaxation
- Religion
- Rest up
- Revenge porn
- Riding shotgun
- Ring fencing
- Rise and shine
- Risk
- Rome was not built in one day
- Rosie lea
- Rubbish
- Ruby murray
- Rule of thumb
- Run out of steam
- Sad ass
- Salad days
- Saved by the bell
- Scarper flow
- Science
- Scot free
- Scrape together
- Scrub up
- Secrets
- See eye to eye
- Sex
- Sexton blake
- Shakespeare
- Shoot down in flames
- Shoot straight
- Shoot through
- Shovel ready
- Side boob
- Silver bullet
- Silver fox
- Silver surfer
- Silver threads amongst the gold
- Silver tongued
- Sit tight
- Sixth sense
- Skid row
- Slang
- Smell a rat
- Smell something fishy
- Sniff test
- Son of a gun
- Sparrow fart
- Spitting image
- Spoiler alert
- Sport
- Stab someone in the back
- Steal someones thunder
- Step up to the mark
- Stitch up
- Straight from the horses mouth
- Stranger things have happened
- Stupidity
- Success
- Suck it up
- Surprise
- Swing by
- Swipe right
- Sympathy
- Syrup of figs
- Take a butchers
- Take a raincheck
- Take with a grain of salt
- Talk of the devil
- Tea leaf
- Technology
- That friday feeling
- That sucks
- The acid test
- The apple of my eye
- The author of your own misfortune
- The ball is in your court
- The best of both worlds
- The best thing since sliced bread
- The big pond
- The bull in the bowler hat
- The empty chair
- The fog of war
- The glorious twelfth
- The god squad
- The human body
- The icing on the cake
- The last straw
- The sound of leather on willow
- The tail wagging the dog
- The town bike
- The wheels have come off
- The whole nine yards
- Theatre
- Third time lucky
- Third times a charm
- Throw the towel in
- Tie the knot
- Til the cows come home
- Time
- Titfer tat
- To cut a long story short
- Tongue in cheek
- Tool
- Top banana
- Tour de force
- Toy boy
- Travel
- Trickery
- Trouble and strife
- Turn a blind eye
- Twenty three skidoo
- Twist someones arm
- Two and eight
- Types of Phrase
- Uncle dick
- Uncle tom
- Under the weather
- Unlucky in love
- Up a blind alley
- Up shit creek without a paddle
- Ups a daisy
- Us versus them
- Use your loaf
- Van goghs ear for music
- Variety is the spice of life
- Vatican roulette
- Veg out
- Vehicle
- Wardrobe malfunction
- Washed up
- Water
- Water under the bridge
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- Weather
- Well hung
- Wet behind the ears
- Where theres muck theres brass
- Whipper snapper
- Whistle and flute
- White elephant
- Wild and woolly
- Wind someone up
- Wine and dine
- Winter drawers on
- Word for word
- Work
- Work out
- Worse for wear
- Would you adam and eve it
- Wouldnt be caught dead
- X marks the spot
- Yarn bombing
- Yellow belly
- You are what you eat
- You can lead a horse to water
- You cant judge a book by its cover
- You cant take it with you
- You cant teach an old dog new tricks
- Your guess is as good as mine
- Your name is mud
- Your number is up
- Zip your lip
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