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Lights meaning the lungs or offal of animals dates from the 1200s. See also According to one’s lights
This expression is a metaphor that describes the vacant look on a person’s face that indicates lack of awareness or lack of intelligence. It is origin...
see Blue-arsed fly
see Cat on hot bricks
see Cat on hot bricks
To take to something like a duck to water means to take to something easily and readily as if it was second nature. Ducks like all water birds are bor...
see Fart in a colander
see Fart in a trance
see Fish out of water
A simile that expresses immediacy or spontaneity as in ‘to get on like a house on fire’ which signifies an instant rapport or kindred spirit, very muc...
Act meekly in the face of adversity without putting up a fight. The source is the Bible, Isaiah 53: 7, “He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.” Chr...
see Lead balloon
see Rat up a drain pipe
see Stand out like a sore thumb
see Stand out like a spare prick at a wedding