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Idioms and Slang Questions

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What are 'fadsticks'?
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What does it mean to be Rickrolled?
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Where did the phrase 'she is trying to get your goat' come from and what does it mean?
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What is a surf punk?
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What is meaning of the phrase 'b' juses'?
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What is a pet peeve?
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What is the origin and history of 'An eye for an eye - A tooth for a tooth'?
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Who coined the term elephant in the room?
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What does the expression 'lame duck' mean?
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What is the meaning of 'It sucks'?
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What does it mean for a person to be 'thick'?
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Where did the phrase 'cute as a button' come from?
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What is meant by the saying 'Your smile is your umbrella on a rainy day'?
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What are the parties called where popular kids invite unpopular and unattractive people?
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Where did the term horse play is fools play originate from?
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People usually have some words often used in their language eg okie dokie - What are such words called -commonly used words by a person- in his speech?
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What does 'dire straits' mean?
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What is a practical idiom?
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Where did the expression 'the bee's knees' originate?
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What is a basket case?
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What does the phrase 'aw c'mon' mean?
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How did the expression 'In like Flynn' come about?
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What does the phrase 'Monday morning quarterbacking' mean?
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How much does the certification cost?
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What does 'OK' stand for?
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What is the meaning of the saying as hard as the hobbs of hell?
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What is Old English for hedgehog?
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What is the slang word used to indicate mistake?
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Where did the phrase 'paint the town red' originate?
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What are 1970s slang words?
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How did sayings that had nothing to do with the meaning like 'head over heels in love' come to be?
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What is crab mentality?
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What does Throw a sheep mean?
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What does quief mean?
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What does 'desperate times call for desperate measures' mean?
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What does lil' mean as slang?
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Where did the saying once a man twice a child come from?
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How did the terms Jane Doe and John Doe originate?
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What is the saying that says 'if you don't ------ then I won't pee in your pool'?
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Phrase of come se come sa?
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What does 'the seven year itch' mean?
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Sin aliento means?
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Where did the expression 'crossing Jordan' originate?
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What does 'Whats up' mean?
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What is the origin of the term 'its all good'?
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What does the idiom Popped his cork mean?
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What is a Dwag?
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What is a dofus?
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Is there a word worse than?
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What is the meaning of 'up the anti'?
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What can be a slogan on literacy?
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Where does the expression OK come from and what do the letters stand for?
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What is the Latin word for 'sorry'?
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What does to drive a stake into the heart of mean?
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What is the meaning of mud pie?
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What does okey dokey mean?
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What is the meaning of the idiom 'by the look of things'?
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How much time is in a jiffy?
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Since people say someone tanned is 'as brown as a berry' which berries are brown?
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Where did the expression 'It ain't over til' the fat lady sings' originate?
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What is the origin of the phrase 'to turn in' in the context of 'to go to bed'?
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What does 'raison de plus' mean?
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What is the meaning of semantics and semiotics?
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What's the meaning of I had my house painted?
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Where did the phrase out of order come from?
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What is an example sentence for forearmed is forewarned?
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What does 'Hillary Factor' mean - is it a phenomenon?
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Is fugazy an english word?
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What figure of speech beauty and brains?
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What does 'beauty is only skin deep' mean?
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