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List of 19th century English language idioms
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A feather in your cap
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A wigwam for a goose's bridle
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Ace in the Hole
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Achilles' heel
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Angel's advocate
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Apples and oranges
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At sixes and sevens
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Back seat driver
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Baker's dozen
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Beating a dead horse
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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Black sheep
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Blood, toil, tears, and sweat
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Bootstrapping
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Brass tacks
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Bread and butter
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Cat and mouse
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Catbird seat
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Catch-22 (logic)
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Cheating Death
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Close but no cigar
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Crying wolf
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Culture shock
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Curate's egg
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Curiosity killed the cat
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Cutty-sark (witch)
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Dark horse
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Devil's advocate
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Dime (slang)
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Don't judge a book by its cover
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Eating crow
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Elephant in the room
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Elephant test
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Exception that proves the rule
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Eye for an eye
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Father Figure
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Fatted calf
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Foot the bill
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Forbidden fruit
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Forty winks
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Freudian slip
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Get a life
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Girl Friday (idiom)
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Golden hammer
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Grain of salt
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Gravy train
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Green ink
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Hail fellow well met
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Have one's cake and eat it too
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Hobson's choice
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Hold your horses
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Humble pie
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Interweb
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Intimate part
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Is the glass half empty or half full?
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Jack Robinson (mythical person)
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Jack of all trades, master of none
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Keeping up with the Joneses
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Lion's Share
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Live and Let Live
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Loose cannon
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Mad as a March hare
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Make a mountain out of a molehill
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Man Friday
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Man bites dog (journalism)
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The Man
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Mexican standoff
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Mind your Ps and Qs
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Misnomer
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Morgue file
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Mufti (dress)
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My two cents (idiom)
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Nancy Reagan Defense
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Needle in a haystack
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Pale
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Pig in a poke
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Pork barrel
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Pot calling the kettle black
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Powder keg
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Race card
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Rags to Riches
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Rainbow Over Texas
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The real McCoy
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Rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
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Red-light district
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Reinventing the wheel
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Rest in peace
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Robbing Peter to pay Paul
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Sacred cow
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Salad days
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School of Hard Knocks
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Silver bullet
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Silver spoon
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Simple matter of software
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Sin City (description)
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Smoke and mirrors
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Speak of the Devil
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List of sports idioms
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Stalking horse
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Stiff upper lip
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Straw that broke the camel's back
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Sweetness and light
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Taking the piss
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Tall tale
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Tempest in a teapot
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The Quick and the Dead
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The powers that be (phrase)
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Tilting at windmills
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Tired and emotional
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To call a spade a spade
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Toe the line
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Tongue-in-cheek
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Trip the light fantastic (phrase)
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Two-way street
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University of Life
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Up to eleven
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War chest
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