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Take someone unawares as if he or she were napping or sleeping, this figurative usage dates from the 1500s. See Nap for the origin.
The title of Joseph Heller’s satirical American novel published in 1955 about US Army Air Force bomber crews in WWII. The best way to get out of bombi...
To have a tiger by the tail is to be in a very precarious and dangerous situation. The earliest citation for having a tiger by the tail is c.1930 and...
A catchphrase is a phrase caught up and repeated in common everyday speech. According to the OED, it first appeared in print c. 1922. It is derived fr...
see Would not be caught, found, seen dead
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