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- 'sincere' suit - Ward 06/March/05
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- Help save my sanity - Jenny Reweti 06/March/05
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- Befor the kicking starts - miri barak 06/March/05
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- Make Hitler's Ghost Walk - Patrick Kelly 06/March/05
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- Explain teh phrase - raj dinesh reddy 05/March/05
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- Indo-Canadians - Al 05/March/05
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- Proverbs - Maureen |McHardy 04/March/05
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- Forked-Tongue - Danny Kaye 04/March/05
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- TMI "Too much information" - Ashley 04/March/05
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- "Break a Buck" - James 04/March/05
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- History is just one damn thing after another - Ward 04/March/05
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- Glass ceiling - Stephen Secor 04/March/05
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- Desert island - gerry debenedetti 04/March/05
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- Heard of AND heard about - Anil Namdeo 04/March/05
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- Origin of 2 phrases - joyce 03/March/05
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- Origins of the Phrase "Little Mary" - jaxpax 02/March/05
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- "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." - SER 02/March/05
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- Party? - xfactor 02/March/05
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- Gandy Dancer - Etaion Shrdlu 01/March/05
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- Cut a choagie (choagy?) - Roger 01/March/05
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- Done up like a dog's dinner - David G 01/March/05
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- SPIVs and Black Market (June 2003) - B. Miller 01/March/05
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- "Zero-Tolerance" - AshK 01/March/05
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- Under your belt - AlaricXI 01/March/05
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- Will "Will the circle be unbroken" be broken? - A cotton-picking minute 28/February/05
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- Question.... - Nancy Clifton 28/February/05
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- Slightly off topic query - platypus 28/February/05
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- Circled like a flying town - bubu 28/February/05
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- Liberal peppering with "you know" - Robert Jeffery 27/February/05
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- Stick it in your ear - Lexi 27/February/05
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- Save the baby - Rose mary mandeville 27/February/05
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- A friend in need is a friend indeed - elizabeth 27/February/05
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- DEAD MANS HAND? Poker saying... origins? - Pauline James 27/February/05
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- Help me - Jenny Gossman 26/February/05
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- Hoop and a Hollar - Justin Gassaway 26/February/05
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- On the Lam - Hank 25/February/05
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- I'm not going to allow any stone unturned - Ish 25/February/05
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- Grave Concerns - Ish 25/February/05
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- Poison my eyes - Chris 25/February/05
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- Lick and a promise - annette aubree 25/February/05
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- Tp plug a song - James Briggs 25/February/05
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- Ginned up - ESC 25/February/05
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- "Go Pound Salt" - dlg97003 25/February/05
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- Origin of "so hard done by" - Chris 24/February/05
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- "Leaning towards Fisher's" - AJ 24/February/05
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- Chinese Auction--Possible Origin(?) - Steve E 24/February/05
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- If you will it, it is no dream. - Serge Liberman 24/February/05
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- Phrases - Heather Collier 24/February/05
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- Quote Help! - Brian 23/February/05
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- John Lennon Quote - John-Boston 23/February/05
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- Fiction is truth's older sister -Rudyard Kipling - Dave From Canada 23/February/05
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- Help please - dang ponce 23/February/05
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- Bull by the horn(s) - SR 23/February/05
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- "Chinese Action" etc - Will Snow 23/February/05
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- "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - harry 22/February/05
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- Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel - Dennis 22/February/05
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- When someone always speak with criticising - jade 22/February/05
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- You have lived since then - Ruth Julius 22/February/05
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- Special expression - Peter Oelling 22/February/05
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- Does Anyone Know? - OneHotMama 22/February/05
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- Oscar Wilde Questions - Ruth Julius 21/February/05
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- Gonzo journalism - ESC 21/February/05
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- Tell me what this means - Mike 21/February/05
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- Little Audrey laughed and laughed - James Briggs 21/February/05
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- How come or why come - Ez Rider 20/February/05
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- Paper does not refuse ink. - Tan 20/February/05
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- Treacherous waters - Tan 20/February/05
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- "The night is young..." comes from what? - isaiah 20/February/05
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- Looking for an Oscar Wilde expert - R. Julius 20/February/05
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- I need help with a poem - christy 20/February/05
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- Do you know the origin to this? - Kim Jeffery 20/February/05
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- Have you heard of this one? - Ali Romaine 20/February/05
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- Deep Throat - ESC 20/February/05
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- Ink by the barrel - Ward 19/February/05
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- Buy the farm/ bought the farm, - `tony 19/February/05
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- Velvet cage - tony 19/February/05
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- Purple Haze - Jesus Saves - ESC 19/February/05
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- Making a mountain out of a molehill - Gail Ruggles 19/February/05
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- Money Makes The World Go Round - Sara 19/February/05
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- Rules were made to be broken - Vi 19/February/05
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- Buttinski - Steve 18/February/05
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- Good, by the rumping jumping general! (meaning) - curran 18/February/05
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- Cork It and Pipe It - Louise 18/February/05
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- Origin of the expression "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you" - Kelly 18/February/05
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- Hakuna matata - ER 18/February/05
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- Derby and Joan - Peter Goldsmith 18/February/05
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- Tom, Dick & Harry - Serge Liberman 18/February/05
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- Get back to the drawing board - Sachin 18/February/05
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- Gone for a Burton - Richard 17/February/05
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- Re: Driving me Bananas - I.V.Holtzman 17/February/05
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- Re: Spill the beans - b8hoven 17/February/05
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- Time and tide waits for no man - Paul Hughes 17/February/05
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- Search me! I don't know! - Serge Liberman 17/February/05
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- Re: Peace, posted by ESC on June 05, 2004 - Bernell Bircher 17/February/05
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- Shame it out of somebody/someone (meaning) - Matterson 17/February/05
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- Scarper - Robert Benoist 17/February/05
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- Phrase origin: off the wall - steve youngdale 16/February/05
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- Which preposition goes with'early retirement' 'on or in' - jeannine 16/February/05
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- "Shaken not stirred" - su 16/February/05
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- 007 - Henry 16/February/05
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- Re: 007 - ESC 16/February/05
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- Re: 007 - ESC 16/February/05
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- Shaken - Lewis 16/February/05
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- PS - Lewis 16/February/05
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- PPS - Lewish 17/February/05
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- Reasonable people, equally informed, seldom disagree. - Ward 15/February/05
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- Swing a CAt - Tim 15/February/05
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- As brown as a berry - Len Payne 14/February/05
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- French translation of 'get wild' - jeannine 14/February/05
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- "Too much on their plate" - val wood 14/February/05
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- New Proverb - Vidya Dass 14/February/05
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- (to go) tits up - Peter Sabourin 14/February/05
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- Meaninf of 'to go wild' - jeannine 14/February/05
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- By the hoky fiddle + oath - curran 14/February/05
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- Live with your head in the lion's mouth - Ali 14/February/05
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- To coin a phrase - Ms. Laurie S. Dell, B.A. 13/February/05
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- Eeny Meeny - Dig 13/February/05
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- From ashes to ashes, dust to dist - Serge Liberman 13/February/05
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- Cut a rug? - Pam 13/February/05
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- Take a powder - Walter Brody 12/February/05
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- What does 'odd years' mean?? - Judith 12/February/05
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- Getting dooced - ESC 12/February/05
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- You pulled the spaghetti out of my ear - Joe Grocott-James 12/February/05
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- Blue v.s. Red - Tan 12/February/05
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- Bring in the stick of the 4th estate - karla 12/February/05
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- Sweet Nugé - Alex P 11/February/05
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- A mars a day helps you work rest and play..... - Alex P 11/February/05
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- Slam, bam; thank you, mam - ACME 11/February/05
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- Extraordinary rendition - Fred 11/February/05
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- HELP!!! - sandra 11/February/05
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- Help - jeannine 11/February/05
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- Re: Help - James Briggs 11/February/05
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- I've set the cat among the pigeons - Ward 11/February/05
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- Cocking Snooks, Thumbing noses and Long Bacon - The Pieman 10/February/05
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- Hell for leather - Carole Allen 10/February/05
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- Aah Diddums - adam slater 10/February/05
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- Fat and happy - steve 10/February/05
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- Hell in a handbasket - Jim Myers 09/February/05
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- Standard Scripts and rejoinders - Ward 09/February/05
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- Hootin annie and wigwams - Where did it come from? 09/February/05
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- Four on the floor - beth 09/February/05
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- "I dared....But will I win"...... - Yo Yo Yo ya bad mofo 09/February/05
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- A catchy tune - alternative meaning - Gina 09/February/05
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- Slip a mickie - Jeff 09/February/05
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- 'an ass or an elbow' - SR 09/February/05
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- Friends Title Song. - Ameen Nawab 09/February/05
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- Help - Marie Jeannine duval 09/February/05
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- Meaning of "Miss someone's help - jeannine 09/February/05
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- Evolving English - Shae 08/February/05
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- The cheque is in the post - Gary Martin 08/February/05
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- Insanity - Word Camel 08/February/05
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- World of pain - Gary Martin 08/February/05
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- Life - SUNNY DESAI 08/February/05
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- Re: Life - Brian from Shawnee 08/February/05
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- Read the table - Bill 08/February/05
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- All the girls in the bar are pretty at 2 AM - ACME 08/February/05
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- Stayed too long at the fair - Susan 08/February/05
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- Love and kisses - Eric 07/February/05
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- O' Carolyn Skull ??? - Cindy 07/February/05
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- The real McCoy - Hugo Johnson 07/February/05
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- Too [little] information - Lewis 07/February/05
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- Mohammad came to the mountain - Stu 07/February/05
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- Fits like an iron mask - kate 07/February/05
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- The meaning of the phrase "Jerking Lightning"? - Rob Montgomery 06/February/05
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- Make [both] ends meet - leslie 05/February/05
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- "To stiff" == not to pay the bill? - SabaIra 05/February/05
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- Cat nap - Brian Drab 05/February/05
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- Jig is up - Maria Dizzia 04/February/05
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- Grand Slam - DRC 04/February/05
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- Gone for a burton - burton wonderer 03/February/05
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- Dance on a dime - Ridgerunner 03/February/05
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- To be taken for a mug - Steve 03/February/05
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- Scratch a lie... - SR 02/February/05
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- True synonyms - David FG 02/February/05
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- Jesus stone - ESC 01/February/05
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- Origin and meaning of " The party is over the ice cream just turned to SHIT !! " - John 01/February/05
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- Double-block home - Brian from Shawnee 01/February/05
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- Born on the wrong side of the blanket - Bob 01/February/05
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- How calls - Ricardo AUgusto 01/February/05
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- "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into" - ss 01/February/05
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- Money Laudering - David Ward 01/February/05
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- Words in common - help me with trivia - Laura 01/February/05
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- Glory Road - Duke 01/February/05
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- "Cyber bullying" - SR 01/February/05
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- Oh my gosh - josh davis` 31/January/05
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- Bed head - mugball-us 31/January/05
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- Cabbaged - ams 31/January/05
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- When to use and when not to use 'Proffer' - Quagmire in Academia 31/January/05
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- To each his own - Leo Swithenbank 31/January/05
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- Beyond mishap - Natty 31/January/05
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- Origin of 'come off' - Joe Grocott-James 30/January/05
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- Wake snakes and come to Taw - Jean 30/January/05
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- Don't pull on Supermans' cape.................. - JimC 30/January/05
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- Return Service Requested - Tracy 30/January/05
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- Rural /countryside sayings - Blythe 30/January/05
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- Sunday drive - miri barak 30/January/05
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- I'm your wingman - ESC 29/January/05
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