A - Z Database
This phrase signifies successful completion of a task and appears to be a British expression from the mid-20th century. Its origin is obscure and is t...
Curiously enough, this expression started life at the beginning of the 20th century as rhyming slang, donkey’s ears/years. By the 1920s, however, it h...
Irish for a drunken brawl and dates the mid-19th century derives from Donnybrook Fair held annually in Dublin County until 1855.
A modern American idiom that has come to mean, be adequately prepared or equipped for any confrontational situation. The origin is the movie The Untou...
see Change horses in midstream
see Counting chickens
see Crossing bridges
see Cry over spilt milk
see Cut off one’s nose to spite one's face
see Die wondering
An American expression often wrongly attributed to J. K. Kennedy (JFK’s father) simply because it appears in Conversations with Kennedy (1975) by Ben...
see Knickers in a knot/twist
American folksy expression that means not to care dates from the late 19th century and is sometimes encountered in the form of not giving two hoots wh...
see Not give a monkey's
See Not give a rat's arse/ass