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Most sources attribute this expression to Punch Magazine in 1884. The exact words were, 'Don’t look at me, sir, with - ah - in that tone of voice', bu...
see Eggs in one basket
see Suffer fools gladly
see Teach old dog new tricks
see Teach your grandmother to suck eggs
see Throw the baby out with the bathwater
Rhyming slang for fuck, Donald Duck/fuck, dates from the 1930s. In South Africa, to do a Donald means, to do a duck i.e. exit or depart quickly and da...
This phrase signifies successful completion of a task and appears to be a British expression from the mid-20th century. Its origin is obscure and is t...
Curiously enough, this expression started life at the beginning of the 20th century as rhyming slang, donkey’s ears/years. By the 1920s, however, it h...
Irish for a drunken brawl and dates the mid-19th century derives from Donnybrook Fair held annually in Dublin County until 1855.
Doolally is British slang from the old colonial days that is still heard from time to time but seldom used in print these days. It means touched, ecce...
Doom and gloom is a rhyming couple that describes feelings of despondency or the forecast of bad tidings, especially in a financial or political conte...
see When one door closes/shuts, another door opens
A cricket term which dates from around 2004. A doosra is a ball bowled by a right-arm spinner that moves from leg to off instead of the normal off-bre...
Originally, American slang for penis dates from the 1960s, perhaps a corruption of dick, but later took on the inoffensive meaning of a dull, stupid p...