A-Z Database
Rhetorical question, to which there is no answer, dates from the early 20th century.
See Know how many beans make five
See How are the mighty fallen
An old English proverb, the full version of which is “Half the world knows not how the other half lives.” It appears in Jacula Prudentum (1651) by Geo...
This expression was popularised as the title of a famous self-help book written by Dale Carnegie and published in America in 1936. It is not certain i...
British informal expression dates from the 1920s meaning, How are things going?
Originally a British euphemism for a sexual encounter as in how about a bit of how’s your father? dates from the early 20th century and was popularise...
This American contraction of how do you do dates from the mid-19th century.
An error so glaring that it may be greeted by howls of disbelief, dates from the late 19th century.
Hubba, hubba is an American slang interjection or exclamation that expresses surprise, admiration, or approval, especially when directed at a member o...
Noise, confusion or uproar, a word of Gaelic origin from the 16th century, probably imitative and originally a battle cry that evolved into a meaning...
An American expression meaning to nag or annoy, derives from the Yiddish hakn dates from the mid-20th century.
see I’m your huckleberry
A widespread clamour or public outcry that dates back to Norman times when it was an Old French expression hu et cri. The modern French huer to shout...
A tumultuous uproar or clamorous confusion dates from the mid-18th century and has appeared in many different spelling variations since the currently...