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To be caught flat-footed means to be caught unprepared and therefore to be at a disadvantage. The expression is originally American and dates from the...
see Cleft stick
see Catch someone napping
see On the back foot
see Red handed
see Cookie jar
see Throw caution to the wind
see Keep cavey
see Carbon copy
A cenotaph is an empty tomb, from the Greek cenos meaning empty and taphos meaning tomb. The Cenotaph at Whitehall, London, was originally erected to...
To take centre stage is to occupy the main position of focus and attention, derives obviously from the world of theatre and dates from 17th century.
British slang for £100 dates from the early 20th century.
Rhyming slang for haemorrhoids, Chalfont St Giles/piles, dates from the 1980s as in expressions like my Chalfonts are killing me. Chalfont St Giles is...
The complete expression is as different as chalk and cheese, clearly two things that could not be more different. The alliteration has kept this old s...
see Shammy