A - Z Database

A - Z Database

Have someone’s back

see Watch someone’s back


Have someone over a barrel

see Over a barrel


Have something in spades

see In spades


Have/not have the stomach for something

see Stomach


Have the last laugh

see Last laugh


Have the wood on or over someone

To have the wood on or over someone is to get the better of them in any form of contest or competition. The expression is chiefly Australian and New Z...

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Have too many balls in the air

see Too many balls in the air


Have your cake and eat it

This expression is most commonly found in the form ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’ meaning that one cannot entertain two irreconcilable choices...

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Have your guts for garters

see Guts for garters


Haymaker

A wild, swinging punch is American boxing slang from the early 20th century, alludes to the wide arc of swinging a scythe or sickle in making or cutti...

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Haywire

When things go wrong or out of control, they are said to go haywire. The expression originated in America in the early 20th century and its first use...

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He who is absent is always wrong

see Absent are always wrong


He who laughs last, laughs longest

see Last laugh


Head/give head

Slang for fellatio; dates from the 1950s.


Head case

see Nut case