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[throw the baby out with the bath water]
[bark up the wrong tree]
[tie the knot]
[dead ringer]
[frog in one's throat]
[bite the bullet]
[bring home the bacon]
[break a leg]
[bury the hatchet]
[a square meal]
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[as good as go] {adv. phr.}
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as good's do this," for, I may as well do this. Only heard among the illiterate.
[as it comes]
1. As is.
Reese takes life as it comes.
2. {adv. phr.}
Instinctively, by intuition.
I write as it comes to me. I often don't know exactly what I think until I see it on paper.
[attention whore] {n. phr.} {informal}
Label given to any person who craves attention to such an extent that they will do anything to receive it. The type of attention (negative or positive) does not matter.
You're such a GD attention whore!
See […]
[ba-donka-donk] or [badonkadonk] {n.} {ebonic}
An extremely curvaceous female behind.
Women who possess this feature usually have a small waist that violently explodes into round and juicy posterior (e.g., 34c, 24, 38). Other characteristics would be […]
[bank-bill] {n. phr.}
A bank-note.
Neither Johnson nor the other lexicographers have the term bank-note, though they all have bank-bill, which Johnson defines, "a note for money laid up in a bank, at the sight of which the money is paid."
In the […]
[break a leg] {v. phr.}
Is said to actors for good luck before they go on stage, especially on an opening nights.
One of the interpretaions of "break a leg" is wishing to "make a strenuous effort".
[chinwag] or [chin-wag] {n.}
Chat, conversation. To have a chin wag is to have a gossip or a wide-ranging conversation on some mutually interesting subject.
Few things in life are better than a good chin-wag over a cup of tea
[corn hustler]
What is the meaning of this expression?
There is Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom is insulted by being called a corn hustler.