A - Z Database
Rhyming slang for road, frog and toad/road. It is one the oldest examples of rhyming slang and dates from 1859. Like most rhyming slang, it is frequen...
This expression dates from the late 19th/early 20th century and is a metaphor for the hoarse croaking sound one makes when one has to clear phlegm or...
A slang expression from the late 19th century, so-called because it describes the method of carrying a drunken or refractory prisoner face downwards b...
see Left field
To go hither and thither with great frustration and little or no success dates in the form of ‘from post to pillar’ from the 15th century. One school...
see Scratch
see Out of or from the Ark
see Out of the frying pan into the fire
see Straight from the horse’s mouth
see The year dot
see Ice the cake
Male homosexual, American slang dates from the early 20th century.
An eccentric, possibly crazy person, extracted from the American expression nutty as a fruitcake, which dates from the early 20th century. It can also...
British informal for slot machine dates from the 1950s so called because of its fruit symbols. The expression is not known in America where they are s...
The first recorded usage of this word and its etymology are still disputed. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a first citation of 1503. Other source...