D

dab will do ya, a little(Brylcreem flattery?) see also Layingdahs and dits (SOS)
damage and danger
dandy, changes in meaning of
danger
Danger Ahead
dangerous
dark secrets blackmailed
dawdling
day, make my (Dirty Harry)
day, Mother's
days' wonders, nine
days, red-letter
dead man's hand
dead to rights
deadlocked
deal, cutting a
dealer, wheeler
Dealing with the Doleful Dole
decoy birds (stool pigeons)see also Birds of a Feather, A Little Birdie Told Me...Birdbrain,What's Eating You?, Teeing Off, Albatross around one's neck, Something to Crow About, Talking Turkey, Cold Turkey, and Feathers in Caps...Panache & Pennants
deejay
deer, male (buck)
defeat, Caesar's explanation ofdefeat, on the verge of (on the ropes)
defect
deficiency
deficit
defrauded (sold smoke)
degeneracy
dejected
Delirious...Toxins...Intoxicateddelusive notions (maggots in the head)
demand
den
denim
Dennis, John (stolen thunder)Dents, Dentists, Indenture, and Tasks
deriving
derring-do
descendant
descent, in the
desert
Deserving...Desserts & Just Desserts
design
desire see also Thank Your Lucky Stars
despair see also Without a Prayer
desperados
Desperados and the Lone Ranger
desperate see also Without a Prayer
desserts, just
destructive
desultory
detective
detest
detoured
deviating
Devil...Blue sea...All Hell to Pay
devil-may-care attitude (harum scarum)
devious
dexterity
diamonds of the first water
diatribe
dice, no
Dick
dickering
diddly, diddling, diddle
Die is Cast, The
different tack
dig in
digitus impudicus (finger)
diminished
ding-a-lings
dinner
Dionysius and walls with earssee also In One Ear
diploma
direct current (electric chair)dirty hands
Dirty Harry (make my day)
disastrous see also Thank Your Lucky Stars
disc jockey
disciples
disciplines
discord, apple of see also A as in Apple
disease see also Germs of Endearment
dish (euphemisms for woman) seealso Call Me Madam, Woman, and Breadstuffs, Lords, Ladies, and Duffs
dismal
dispirited
distort
distraction
distress
ditch effort, last
ditch it
ditty on adultery
divert
divided
docile
doctor see also Holistic Health
doctor, spin see also Doctrinaire Doctors
Doctrinaire Doctors
dog days of summer
dog hair
dog has his day, every
dog?, tail wagging your
dogbite treatment
dog-eat-dog world
doghouse, in the
dogma
dogs and cats, raining see also The Cat's Pajamas and the Bees Knees,A Dog's Life...Three Dog Night,Letting Our Hair Down...Hair of the Dog, and Putting On...The Lap Dog
dog's life
dogs, going to
dogs, putting on lap
doing a duck
doing a number on someone
doing IT see also It's Charisma
doldrums, in the
dole and doleful
doleful dumps
doll see also Call Me Madam, Woman, and Breadstuffs, Lords, Ladies, and Duffs
dollar see also Buck...Passing the Buck
domination
dominion
Don Juan
done to a turn
donnybrook
don't look a gift horse in the mouth see also Horseplay andHorse Power
door, keeping the wolf from theDope and A Drug on the MarketDorgan, T.A. (father of the hot dog) see also Get Your Red Hots!
dot is and cross tsdotage
dote
dote
double eagle, in golf terms
double whammy (jinxes)
double-crossed
Doubleday, Abner (baseball)
Doubting Thomas
dough
Down in the Dumps and In the Doldrums
down some suds
down to the wire
down, when the chips are
Dracula
drakes and ducks
dramatis personae
draperies, Irish
draw
draw and quarter
draw the curtain
draw, hang, and quarter
Drawing Your Attention
dregs of a drink (mud)
dressing up and down
drink of grief (marijuana)
drinking (drown the shamrock)see also Delirious...Toxins...Intoxicated,Fishy Matters, and Toasting...Mud in Your Eye
driving each other bugs
drogues and drugs
drone
drop on him, get the
drown the shamrock
drugs
drums and pariahs
drunk as a fiddler
dry goods, fine piece of (euphemisms for woman) see also Call Me Madam, Woman, and Breadstuffs, Lords, Ladies, and Duffs
Dryden (henpecked) see also Chicken Hearted/Livered...In EveryPot
duck, lame
Ducking Responsibility
dude
duds
duff and dough
duffers
Duke of Savoy, Emmanuel (turncoat)
Duke of Wellington, the Iron
Dumbbells Ring True
dumps, down in the
dunces
dunderheads
dungarees
Dunmow, Essex, England (bringing home the bacon)
Duns Scotus, John
Dutch, in
dweeb (unknown origins)
dyed-in-the-wool
dying like a dog
Dynamite and Dynamic Dynasties
dynamo
dynasty