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Concordance index for 'ph' onwards
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- AWWY: Horseplay; fuss, kick up a (equestrian origins of phrase); heels, kick up one's (equestrian origins of phrase); kick up one's heels; rampage, equestrian origins of; recalcitrant; sense, horse; wild horses couldn't drag us, equestrian origins of phrase: 3
- AWWY: The Time is Ripe; down to the wire; eleventh hour, Biblical origins of phrase; hour, the eleventh (Biblical origins of phrase); nick of time, in the; ripe, the time is (Shakespearean origin of phrase); Time is Ripe, The; wire, down to and under: 3
- AWWY: Treading Water; financially strapped (in low water); hard up, nautical origin of phrase; rocks, on the; water, in low: 1
- AWWY: between the devil and the deep blue sea; Devil...Blue sea...All Hell to Pay; hell to pay; hot pitch, devil to pay and (original phrase): 1
- AWWY: biblical ghosts; Caxton, William (the ghost); ghost, gave up the (biblical phrase); Giving up the Ghost (Writer); writer, ghost: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- FX: "Bob's your uncle": 2
- FX: "Caesarean section": 1
- FX: "Eskimo": 1
- FX: "Go figure": 1
- FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 2
- FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
- FX: "The die is cast.": 1
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 4
- FX: "You have another think coming": 1
- FX: "beg the question": 3
- FX: "between you and I": 1
- FX: "billions and billions": 2
- FX: "bloody": 1
- FX: "blue moon": 3
- FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
- FX: "copacetic": 1
- FX: "cut the mustard": 2
- FX: "cut to the chase": 1
- FX: "done"="finished": 2
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
- FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 5
- FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
- FX: "in like Flynn": 2
- FX: "like" vs "as": 3
- FX: "loo": 1
- FX: "love"="zero": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 2
- FX: "peter out": 1
- FX: "posh": 1
- FX: "push the envelope": 2
- FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
- FX: "rule of thumb": 6
- FX: "spoonerism": 1
- FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 1
- FX: "the bee's knees": 1
- FX: "the whole nine yards": 3
- FX: "to all intents and purposes": 1
- FX: "to call a spade a spade": 3
- FX: "true fact": 2
- FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
- FX: "whole cloth": 5
- FX: "ye"="the": 1
- FX: Books on phrase origins: 7
- FX: Postfix "not": 1
- FX: Related newsgroups: 1
- FX: Split infinitive: 2
- FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 2
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 2
- Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 3
- Intro C:
"cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
: 1
- Intro C:
"exception proves the rule"
: 2
- Intro C:
"push the envelope"
: 1
- Intro C:
"whole nine yards"
: 2
- Intro D:
"Gotten"
: 1
- Isles:
BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands
: 1
- Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 2
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 3
- Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 3
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 3
- Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 3
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
- Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 1
- Lawler: "amn't": 1
- Lawler: "only": 2
- Lawler: "vehicle": 1
- Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
- Lawler: Bring vs Take: 2
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 2
- Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 4
- Lawler: Hyphens: 2
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
- Lawler: News Item: 1
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
- Lawler: Reams: 2
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 2
- Lawler: The Academy: 1
- Lawler: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 3
- Lawler: anymore: 1
- Lawler: gonna: 2
- Lawler: zilch: 6
- Links: Fun with words
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- Links: Online reference books
: 1
- Quinion: Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (book review): 1
- UCLE05: What’s
: 2
- UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”
: 1
- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 1
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 1
- UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers
: 1
- UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency
: 1
- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
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- Wilton: Coin A Phrase: 1
- Yaelf: (IPL) What is the origin of the phrase "Once in a blue moon"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) AUE Contributor Mike asks, I was struck by the phrase "to queer the pitch" as I used it the other day. What game? How did one "queer the pitch"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Do you know where the phrase Frick and Frack originated? I'm sure it wasn't because of the Back Street Boys.: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I am interested in the phrase hammer and tongs because it is used by our fraternity (Theta Tau, a professional fraternity for engineering students). We are of the belief that this is a very old English phrase: 2
- Yaelf: (WD) I am looking for the origin and meaning of the phrase "Heavens to Betsy".: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I have heard an American friend of mine use the phrase kitty corner to describe things that are diagonally opposed, as for example: 'The drugstore is kitty corner to the ice-cream parlor'. Have you heard this phrase before and do you have any clue a: 2
- Yaelf: (WD) Is there a story behind the phrase donkey's years?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) My new puppy has really gotten my goat, and I was wondering how the heck that phrase came to be?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the phrase "goody two shoes"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the phrase "to the nines"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the oldest phrase in English still in current use?: 1
- Yaelf: Where does the phrase "flipping the bird" come from?: 1
- Yaelf: Where does the phrase "taking the mick", "taking the mickey" come from?: 1
- Yaelf: Where does the phrase 'touch wood' come from?: 1
- AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 3
- AUE: Dictionaries: 1
- AUE: The exception proves the rule: 1
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