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Ninety expressions pulled at random from all 725. Pick the one that makes you wonder—or shuffle the lot.

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  1. 01 Bite off more than you can chew
  2. 02 Reap the whirlwind
  3. 03 Dine with Duke Humphrey
  4. 04 Away with the fairies
  5. 05 Come from away
  6. 06 What's the craic?
  7. 07 All fur coat and no knickers
  8. 08 A voice crying in the wilderness
  9. 09 Kick over the traces
  10. 10 Ride shotgun
  11. 11 Keep it under your hat
  12. 12 All my eye and Betty Martin
  13. 13 Not playing with a full deck
  14. 14 Don't count your chickens before they hatch
  15. 15 Eat your hat
  16. 16 Eat, drink and be merry
  17. 17 Wear and tear
  18. 18 Have a tiger by the tail
  19. 19 Kick up your heels
  20. 20 Kith and kin
  21. 21 Lead-pipe cinch
  22. 22 Take the rough with the smooth
  23. 23 Lickety-split
  24. 24 Familiarity breeds contempt
  25. 25 Where there's muck there's brass
  26. 26 Hammer and tongs
  27. 27 Get a wiggle on
  28. 28 Happy as a sandboy
  29. 29 Eat like a horse
  30. 30 Long time no see
  31. 31 No skin off my nose
  32. 32 Take the mickey
  33. 33 Let sleeping dogs lie
  34. 34 Bite the bullet
  35. 35 Dinna fash yourself
  36. 36 The pot calling the kettle black
  37. 37 Fly by the seat of your pants
  38. 38 Keep your hair on
  39. 39 Cry over spilled milk
  40. 40 Off your high horse
  41. 41 Not give a hoot
  42. 42 Like the clappers
  43. 43 On the wrong side of the tracks
  44. 44 Like a bear with a sore head
  45. 45 Eyes bigger than your stomach
  46. 46 Cross that bridge when you come to it
  47. 47 Beck and call
  48. 48 Feel your oats
  49. 49 Make no bones about it
  50. 50 Up to scratch
  51. 51 By the book
  52. 52 Eat like a pig
  53. 53 When the chips are down
  54. 54 Put your best foot forward
  55. 55 The more the merrier
  56. 56 When the cows come home
  57. 57 From pillar to post
  58. 58 At His Majesty's pleasure
  59. 59 An elegant sufficiency
  60. 60 Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  61. 61 Fine as frog hair
  62. 62 Run rings around
  63. 63 Cheap at half the price
  64. 64 When pigs fly
  65. 65 Cut of your jib
  66. 66 Short shrift
  67. 67 All hat and no cattle
  68. 68 Scot-free
  69. 69 Go to Jericho
  70. 70 Stool pigeon
  71. 71 Neither use nor ornament
  72. 72 Up a blind alley
  73. 73 Like a bat out of hell
  74. 74 Laughing all the way to the bank
  75. 75 Madder than a wet hen
  76. 76 Holy mackerel
  77. 77 Run a tight ship
  78. 78 According to Cocker
  79. 79 A watched pot never boils
  80. 80 Ride the wave
  81. 81 Throw in the towel
  82. 82 A stone's throw
  83. 83 By hook or by crook
  84. 84 Hit the nail on the head
  85. 85 For love or money
  86. 86 Like a deer in the headlights
  87. 87 X-ray vision
  88. 88 Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
  89. 89 Give up the ghost
  90. 90 First come, first served