A-Z Database
American informal for a lazy, television addict, from the allusion of being a vegetable that almost never leaves the couch in front of the television....
see Wink of sleep
see Not give/worth a continental
see Not give a fig
see Not give a flying fuck
see Not give a monkey’s
see Toss
‘Count me in’ or ‘count me out’ are exhortations to include or exclude the speaker from some endeavour or other and are first cited in America from th...
This is an everyday saying taken very much for granted these days, but it was coined in a hymn entitled Count Your Blessings by an American, Johnson O...
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched is one of the world’s oldest proverbs meaning do not rely on projected outcomes until they materiali...
An indeterminate distance of certainly more than a measured mile, a very long way, derives from the propensity of country people to underestimate dist...
Be prepared, be careful, early 20th century version (probably only because arse/ass has finally been allowed in print) of the very much older watch yo...
That part of a cricket field between deep mid-wicket and long on, date of origin unknown. There are two theories about its origin. The first one is th...
To describe someone as a cowboy, particularly in a business context, has become derogatory and describes reckless, unprofessional attitudes and behavi...
See Until the cows come home