List of American English Idioms & Phrases
List of American English Idioms
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- A day late and a dollar short
- All bets are off
- All hat, no cattle
- All over Hell's half acre
- Armchair quarterback
- As mad as a wrongly shot hog
- As rare as hen's teeth
- At a drop of a dime
- At loose ends
- At the bottom of the totem pole
- At the end of your rope
- Baby boomer
- Balls to the walls
- Band-Aid on a bullet wound
- Batting a thousand
- Be out in left field
- Beat someone to the draw
- Beating a dead horse
- Bells on
- Belt and suspenders
- Bet the ranch
- Bet your bottom dollar
- Big Apple
- Big Easy
- Bird-dog
- Blow off steam
- Blow smoke
- Built like a Mack Truck
- Burr up the ass
- Can't dance and it's too wet to plow
- Cat fur and kitty britches
- Cat's pajamas
- Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
- Charley horse
- Circle the wagons
- Close but no cigar
- Cooking with gas
- Cool your Jets
- Country mile
- Crepe hanger
- Crickets
- Curve ball
- Cut someone off at the knees
- Cute as a bug
- Decorate the mahogany
- Different ropes for different folks
- Different strokes for different folks
- Dime a dozen
- Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?
- Dog and pony show
- Dollars for doughnuts
- Don't stop and kick at every dog that barks at you
- Don't sweat the small stuff
- Don't take any wooden nickels
- Down to the wire
- Drawing card
- Drop a dime
- Drop in the bucket
- Drunker than a peach orchard boar
- Duck soup
- Ducks in a row
- Eat crow
- Fair shake of the whip
- Fall off the turnip truck
- Feel your oats
- Fifth wheel
- Fine as frog's hair
- Fish or cut bait
- Forest for the trees
- Frog strangler
- From Missouri
- From the get-go
- Get on my last nerve
- Give away the store
- Go fly a kite
- Go fry an egg
- Go over like a lead balloon
- Go pound salt
- Go to the mat
- Going Jesse
- Green thumb
- Hairy eyeball
- Hill of beans
- Hold the bag
- Horse of a different color
- Hot button
- Hot ticket
- How do you like them apples
- How the hog ate the cabbage
- I may have been born at night, but not last night
- If I had a nickel for every time
- In a pig's eye
- In high gear
- In like a dirty shirt
- In the catbird seat
- It's been a slice
- Jerkwater town
- John Hancock
- John Q Public
- Kick up your heels
- Like a bump on a log
- Like green corn through the new maid
- Like nailing jello to the wall
- Like taking candy from a baby
- Like to died
- Like white on rice
- Little pitchers have big ears
- Lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut
- Mad as a hornet
- Make bets in a burning house
- Make out like a bandit
- Mind your own beeswax
- Mom and pop
- Monday morning quarterback
- More bang for your buck
- Move the chains
- My dogs are barking
- Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
- New York minute
- Nickel tour
- Not have two nickels to rub together
- Not know beans about
- Not worth a red cent
- Off like a dirty shirt
- On the mound
- Out of the left field
- Paddle your own canoe
- Paint yourself into a corner
- Pennies on the dollar
- Penny ante
- Pick-up game
- Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
- Polish the apples
- Pound sand
- Pull out of the fire
- Pull your chain
- Put more green into something
- Put some mustard on it!
- Ragged blue line
- Raise Cain
- Rake someone over the coals
- Rest is gravy
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Root hog or die poor
- Run around the bush
- Saigon moment
- Say uncle
- Sharp as a tack
- Sharpen your pencil
- Slap leather
- Slower than molasses going uphill in January
- Squeaky wheel gets the grease
- Squeeze blood out of a turnip
- Stool pigeon
- Stop on a dime
- Sweat bullets
- Take the fifth
- Talk a blue streak
- Tall enough to hunt geese with a rake
- Tell them where the dog died
- That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee
- That dog won't hunt
- That's all she wrote
- Throw a curve
- Tough row to hoe
- Ugly as a stick
- Uncle Sam
- Under the wire
- Until the last dog is shot
- Watch your six
- Water over the dam
- Wedge politics
- Whale
- What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?
- Where the rubber meets the road
- Whistling Dixie
- Whistling past the graveyard
- Who wears the pants?
- Whole ball of wax
- Whole cloth
- Wilder than a peach orchard boar
- Wouldn't throw a rock in a school yard
- Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
- Yell bloody murder
- You can't get there from here
- You can't have cake and the topping, too
- You've got rocks in your head
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