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This word has been in the language from the early 1500s and is borrowed from the Old French sombresault from sombre meaning over and sault meaning to...
This quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act I, Scene IV, is often used as a general metaphor for governmental or commercial corruption.
see Always something new out of Africa
see Suck the hind tit
Means that a person has something to exult or boast loudly about and is a figurative usage of the verb ‘to crow’, which is the sound a cockerel makes....
Vulgar slang for an obnoxious, objectionable person that dates from the mid-17th century, but became widely used in North America during the 18th cent...
There are two schools of thought about this one. The first is from The Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster, which both define 'son of a gun'...
Song and dance acts were popular music hall and vaudeville acts during the 19th century. The expression became figurative in the sense of unnecessary...
To sort someone out means to deal effectively with someone, which can have a dual meaning - either to give good, attentive service or put someone in t...
This clipping of the phrase ‘sorted out’ has become a stand-alone British informal expression that means all in order or satisfactorily arranged. For...
A person who is perfectly suited to another in every respect, dates from the early 19th century.
see Clear as a bell
see Stuck record
The ultimate state of well-being, probably equally well known in the original Latin written by Juvenal (c.50-130 AD) in Satires, mens sana in corpore...