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Overstep the mark

To go beyond accepted norms or standards, derives from sporting contests, shooting etc where a mark defines a position from which the sporting contest...

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Oxbridge

An obvious conflation that refers to either Oxford or Cambridge universities or both, sometimes to distinguish them from redbrick universities. First...

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Oxo cube

Rhyming slang for the tube, The London Underground, Oxo cube/tube, dates from the mid-20th century.


Oxymoron

An oxymoron is a figure of speech by which contradictory terms are joined together yet still resulting in meaning and relevance. For example, the phra...

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Oyster

see World is my oyster


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