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This expression refers to the higher echelons of government and administration with undertones of intrigue and covert influence, to wit confidential d...
This expression has become much loved by cricket commentators in the 21st century and describes a notional area on or just outside the off-stump, in w...
see Arm and a leg
British homosexual slang dates from the 1950s for making contact through soliciting in public toilets, which euphemistically resembled cottages. Cotta...
To cotton on is to understand or realise that something is the case and this particular usage dates from the early 20th century. The OED gives several...
see Bless his/her cotton socks
American informal for a lazy, television addict, from the allusion of being a vegetable that almost never leaves the couch in front of the television....
see Not give/worth a continental
see Not give a fig
see Not give a flying fuck
see Not give a monkey’s
see Toss
see Wink of sleep
‘Count me in’ or ‘count me out’ are exhortations to include or exclude the speaker from some endeavour or other and are first cited in America from th...
This is an everyday saying taken very much for granted these days, but it was coined in a hymn entitled Count Your Blessings by an American, Johnson O...