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Cack handed means left handed but has also come to mean clumsy or awkward simply because left handed people appear so, to right handed people. Cack on...
A cad is someone who behaves dishonourably or contemptibly dates from the early 19th century. It derives from the word cadet, which in the early 17th...
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A cadenza is a musical term in the form of a spirited musical flourish towards the close of the first or last movement of a concerto. To have a cadenz...
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British rhyming slang for ‘table’, Cain and Abel/table, dates from 1857.
British slang for mouth from the early to mid-20th century. Its first appearance in print is c. 1940. The American version is pie-hole.
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A cakewalk is any endeavour that can be accomplished easily without any great effort. The expression is American and dates from the 1870s. It has its...
This expression has been popular in England since the mid-16th century and means to talk bluntly and explicitly, sometimes to the point of rudeness. A...
Stop an activity or quit something temporarily, originally American, first attested from c. 1840 and now Standard English.
End a dispute or contest and agree that honours are even, originally American, first attested from c. 1890 and now Standard English.