- American phrases
- Blue plate special
- Lead-pipe cinch
- Eighty six
- Presto chango
- A bigger bang for your buck
- A dog is a man's best friend
- A foot in the door
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- A house is not a home
- A miss is as good as a mile
- A no-brainer
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A piece of cake
- A piece of the action
- A rising tide lifts all boats
- A rose is a rose is a rose
- A shot in the arm
- A sledgehammer to crack a nut
- A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
- Above my pay grade
- Absent-minded professor
- Ace in the hole
- Acid test – The
- Action man
- Across the pond
- Air kiss
- Air quotes
- All hat and no cattle
- All publicity is good publicity
- All singing, all dancing
- All systems go
- All you can eat
- An accident waiting to happen
- An arm and a leg
- An axe to grind
- An offer he can't refuse
- Another day, another dollar
- As easy as pie
- As easy as taking candy from a baby
- As happy as a clam
- Attack is the best form of defence
- Away with the fairies
- Baby blues
- Baby boomer
- Back to the drawing board
- Back-seat driver – A
- Bad hair day – A
- Bada-bing
- Balling the jack
- Ballpark figure – A
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Basket case
- Bass-ackwards
- Bats in the belfry
- Be afraid, be very afraid
- Bean counter
- Bee's knees – The
- Beef and reef
- Behind every great man there's a great woman
- Behind the eight ball
- Bells and whistles
- Bet your bottom dollar
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Big Apple
- Big cheese
- Big Easy
- Big fish in a small pond
- Bigger bang for your buck – A
- Birds and the bees – The
- Bish-bash-bosh
- Bish-bosh
- Bite the dust
- Black-on-black
- Blast from the past – A
- Blaze a trail
- Blonde bombshell
- Blow your mind
- Blue-plate special
- Bodice ripper
- Body surfing
- Boogie-woogie
- Born again
- Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- Bought the farm
- Break a leg
- Bronx cheer
- Brownie points
- Bucket list
- Bunny boiler – A
- Bury the hatchet
- Caesar Salad
- Carbon-copy
- Card-sharp – A
- Catch 22
- Chaise lounge
- Channel surfing
- Charley horse
- Charm offensive
- Chick flick – A
- Chow down
- Clear blue water
- Cliff-hanger
- Climb on the bandwagon
- Close, but no cigar
- Cloud nine
- Club sandwich
- Coin a phrase
- Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Come on down
- Compassion fatigue
- Cold turkey
- Concrete overcoat
- Cost an arm and a leg
- Cotton-picking
- Customer is always right – The
- Cut to the chase
- Cute as a bug's ear
- Date rape
- Dead ringer – A
- Designer stubble
- Diamond is forever
- Differently abled
- Dirt bag
- Dollars to doughnuts
- Doom and gloom
- Doesn't know **** from Shinola
- Don't call us, we'll call you
- Don't get mad, get even
- Double whammy
- Down the pan
- Down the tubes
- Down to the wire
- Drag race
- Driving while black
- Drop-dead gorgeous
- Dumb blonde
- Ear candy
- Easy as pie
- Easy-peasy
- Eighty six
- Elephant in the room
- Elvis has left the building
- Ethnic cleansing
- Excuse me while I kiss this guy
- Extraordinary rendition
- Face the music
- Failing to plan is planning to fail
- Fall guy
- Famous for fifteen minutes
- Fancy pants
- Fashion victim – A
- Feeding frenzy – A
- Fifteen minutes of fame
- Fifth column
- Filthy rich
- Finger lickin' good
- Fish or cut bait
- Five o'clock shadow
- Flavor of the month – The
- Fly by the seat of one's pants
- Fly off the handle
- Fly on the wall
- Foot in the door – A
- For the birds
- From sea to shining sea
- Fuddy-duddy – A
- Full of **** and vinegar
- Funny farm – The
- Generation X
- Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration
- Get down to brass tacks
- Get medieval
- Get your dander up
- Get your goat
- Gild the lily
- Glass ceiling
- Go haywire
- Go the whole hog
- Go postal
- Go pound sand
- Go to hell in a handbasket
- Go to the mattresses
- Godfrey Daniel
- Good riddance to bad rubbish
- Goody, goody gumdrops
- Gordon Bennett
- Got my mojo working
- Granny dumping
- Great balls of fire
- Gridlock
- Gung ho
- Hairy eyeball
- Happy as a clam
- Hard man is good to find
- Hasta la vista, baby
- Have an axe to grind
- Heads up
- Heard it through the grapevine
- Heavens to Betsy
- Heavens to Murgatroyd
- Heavy metal
- Heebie-jeebies – The
- Hell in a handbasket
- Hell's half acre
- High five
- High on the hog
- High, wide and handsome
- Hissy fit
- Hold your horses
- Home is where the heart is
- Hooray Henry
- Horse feathers
- Hot off the press
- Houston, we have a problem
- Hunky-dory
- Hunt and peck
- Hush puppies
- I have nothing to declare but my genius
- Identity theft
- If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
- In an interesting condition
- In like Flynn
- In spades
- In the bag
- In the catbird seat
- In the sticks
- In your face
- Indian giver
- Indian summer
- Is the Pope Catholic?
- It ain't over till the fat lady sings
- It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
- It's not rocket science
- Itty-bitty
- Jeepers-creepers
- Jobs for the boys
- Joined at the hip
- Jump on the bandwagon
- Jump the gun
- Jump the shark
- Jury is still out – The
- Kangaroo court – A
- Katy bar the door
- Keep shtum
- Keep the ball rolling
- Keep up with the Joneses
- Keep your chin up
- Kilroy was here
- Kiss and tell
- Kit and caboodle – The
- Knee-jerk reaction
- Knock into a cocked hat
- Know your onions
- La-la land
- Lame duck – A
- Lead balloon
- Lead-pipe cinch – A
- Let's roll
- Level playing field – A
- Life begins at forty
- Live long and prosper
- Loose cannon – A
- Loose lips sink ships
- Lose your marbles
- Make a bee-line for
- Make him an offer he can't refuse
- Make my day
- Marital aid
- Memory lane
- Men in suits
- Mexican wave
- Mickey Finn
- Middle of the road
- More bang for your buck
- Mother country – The
- My bad
- My way or the highway
- Name is mud
- Never give a sucker an even break
- New kid on the block
- Nitty-gritty
- No-brainer – A
- No dice
- No way, Jose
- Not rocket science
- Not worth a plugged nickel
- Nth degree
- Off the record
- Okey-dokey
- Old chestnut
- On cloud nine
- On the bubble
- On the wagon
- On the warpath
- One-hit wonder
- One small step for man
- One stop shop
- Paddle your own canoe
- Paint the town red
- Pass the buck
- Peg out
- Pennies from heaven
- Pester power
- Peter out
- Picture-perfect
- Pie in the sky
- Piece of cake
- Piece of the action
- Pipe dream
- Play by ear
- Play it again Sam
- Play the race card
- Plug-ugly
- Politically correct
- Pond life
- Pony up
- Power dressing
- Preaching to the choir
- Presto chango
- P.D.Q. – pretty damn quick
- Pride comes before a fall
- Prime time
- Pull the wool over your eyes
- Pull up stakes
- Punching above your weight
- Push the envelope
- Put on the wooden overcoat
- Quality time
- Razzle-dazzle
- Red letter day
- Riding shotgun
- Rinky-dink
- Rise and shine
- Road apples
- Road rage
- Rootin' tootin'
- Run a mile
- Run of the mill
- Sacred cow – A
- Say goodnight Gracie
- Scraping the barrel
- 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy
- Security blanket
- Selling like hot cakes
- Seven-year itch
- Shaggy dog story
- Shot in the arm
- Siamese twins
- Silver bullet
- Six ways to Sunday
- Sitting pretty
- Six ways to Sunday
- Skid row
- Smart casual
- Smoke and mirrors
- Sold down the river
- Sound bite
- Space, the final frontier
- Speak softly and carry a big stick
- Spelling-bee
- Spill the beans
- Spin doctor
- Spring forward, fall back
- Square meal
- Stand up guy
- Step up to the plate
- Stranger danger
- Stool pigeon
- Super-duper
- Surf and turf
- Surfing the Net/surfing the Internet/surfing the Web
- Tail wagging the dog – The
- Take the cake
- Taken for a ride
- Talk to the hand
- Talk through one's hat
- Tanstaafl – (there's no such thing as a free lunch)
- Teensy-weensy
- Tell me about it
- That's all folks!
- That's all she wrote
- That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind
- The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind
- The bee's knees
- The best defense is a good offence
- The Big Apple
- The Big Easy
- The buck stops here
- The camera cannot lie
- The customer is always right
- The elephant in the room
- The hairy eyeball
- The heebie-jeebies
- The jury is still out
- The road less travelled
- The show ain't over till the fat lady sings
- The pits
- The usual suspects
- The whole kit and caboodle
- The whole nine yards
- The whole shebang
- There's a sucker born every minute
- There's no such thing as a free lunch
- There's no such thing as bad publicity
- They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist…
- Think outside the box
- Thomas Paine
- Three strikes and you are out
- Throw the towel in
- Tic-tac-toe
- To beat the band
- To boldly go where no man has gone before
- Toe-curling
- Too big for your breeches
- Top notch
- Touchy-feely
- Trick or treat
- Tuckered out
- Twenty three skidoo
- Twenty four seven
- Two cents worth
- Up a gum tree
- Up the creek without a paddle
- Urban myth
- Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things
- Vote with your feet
- Walk free
- Walk the walk
- Walkie-talkie
- Wear the trousers
- Well-heeled
- What part of no do you not understand?
- What you see is what you get
- What's not to like?
- What's up Doc?
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going
- When the **** hits the fan
- Wild and woolly
- Win one for the Gipper
- Yada yada
- Yellow Peril
- You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
- Zero tolerance
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