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An example of the first 73 idioms from exporting Category:English idioms through Special:Export and parsed with VB for Word to extract definitions only:


|put off|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To procrastinate.
  2. (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
  3. (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
  4. (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
  5. (transitive, archaic) To take off (something worn).

Adjective[edit]

  1. offended, repulsed
  2. daunted or fazed

|pull my finger|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which someone is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the ensuing expulsion of gas.

|pitch woo|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (archaic) to court
  2. to make love
  3. to flatter

|on the pull|[edit]

Prepositional phrase[edit]

  1. (Britain, slang) Out seeking a sexual partner.

|oh dark thirty|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)

|nickel-and-dime|[edit]

Adjective[edit]

  1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

Verb[edit]

  1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

|my arse|[edit]

Interjection[edit]

  1. (slang, Britain) Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.

|low blow|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (boxing) An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist; a groin attack.
  2. (figurative, by extension) Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.

|knock down|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
  2. (transitive) To demolish.
  3. (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
  4. (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
  5. To drink fast.
  6. (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.

|head south|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. Alternative form of go south

|head over heels|[edit]

Adverb[edit]

  1. Tumbling upside down.
  2. At top speed; frantically.
  3. Hopelessly smitten.

|golden duck|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (cricket) the score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced

|go off|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) To explode.
  2. (intransitive) To fire, especially accidentally.
  3. (intransitive) To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
  4. (intransitive) To begin clanging or making noise.
  5. (intransitive) To depart; to leave.
  6. (intransitive, UK, Australia) To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
  7. (transitive) To like less.
  8. (intransitive) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
  9. (slang) To ejaculate.

|get stuck into|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Get busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.
  2. (UK) To start eating.
  3. (Australia) To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.

|get into trouble|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) To be punished for doing something illegal or prohibited.
  2. (intransitive) To fall into difficulty.
  3. (slang, euphemistic, usually said of an unmarried woman) To become pregnant; to make pregnant.

|full whack|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (slang) The entire amount.

Adverb[edit]

  1. (slang) To the maximum extent.

|walk the plank|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (historical) On a pirate ship, to walk off a plank of wood into the ocean. Used as a method of killing.
  2. (figuratively) To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.

|turn on|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve. [from 19th c.]
  2. (transitive) To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
  3. (intransitive, of a device) To start operating; to power up, to become on. [from 19th c.]
  4. (transitive) To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement). [from 20th c.]
  5. (transitive) To sexually arouse. [from 20th c.]
  6. (transitive, slang) To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
  7. (intransitive) To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle). [from 19th c.]
  8. (intransitive) To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle). [from 17th c.]

|thumb one's nose|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. To place a thumb upon the tip of the nose, typically with the fingers spread and while simultaneously wiggling one's fingers, in a gesture of disrespect.
  2. (figuratively) To act disrespectfully, especially by flouting the object of disrespect.

|take the mickey|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive, Britain, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.

|put the bee on|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (slang, chiefly US) to finish off, to beat
  2. (slang, chiefly US) to beg; to borrow money from

|put out|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (baseball) The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.

Adjective[edit]

  1. Taking offense; indignant.

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To place outside or eject.
  2. (transitive) To produce.
  3. (transitive) To injure a part of the body, especially a joint.
  4. (transitive) To inconvenience or disturb someone, such as by moving in or requesting assistance.
  5. (transitive) To extinguish (a flame or light).
  6. (transitive) To eliminate from a competition.
  7. (slang, intransitive) To consent to sex.
  8. (baseball) To cause a player on the offense to be out, especially of men on base.
  9. (cricket) To cause a batsman (a player on the batting team) to be dismissed or out.
  10. To sail away, to depart.

|draw back|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. to retreat from a position
  2. to move backwards
  3. to withdraw from an undertaking
  4. to pull something back or apart

|double Dutch|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Incomprehensible language.
  2. A language game akin to pig Latin.
  3. A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
  4. (colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.

|country mile|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (informal) A long way, a great distance.

|bring about|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To cause to take place.
  2. (transitive) To accomplish, achieve.

|one step at a time|[edit]

Adverb[edit]

  1. Slowly and steadily. Without rushing.

|cause a stir|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.

|all and sundry|[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

  1. (collectively) All; everyone.
  2. (separately) Each one.

|damn by association|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.

|miss the mark|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (of a projectile) To fail to hit the target.
  2. (figurative) To fail to achieve the intended result.

|bankers' hours|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Time period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. of a day.
  2. (figuratively) Any easy job, especially one with a short working day.

|rule of thumb|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge.
  2. (attributive, usually hyphenated) Approximated, guesstimated.

|off the table|[edit]

Prepositional phrase[edit]

  1. Beyond consideration.

|parade of horribles|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes.
  2. A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.

|fencepost problem|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (programming) A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.

|Holy of Holies|[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

  1. The most sacred place within a sacred building.
  2. (informal, humorous) One's private retreat, inner sanctum.

|kicking and screaming|[edit]

Adverb[edit]

  1. With extreme reluctance.

|eye of the beholder|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. The subjective perception and judgement of the person seeing or considering something.

|Lord's Supper|[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

  1. (Christianity) Eucharist
  2. (Christianity) The Last Supper at Passover of Jesus with his disciples.

|Last Supper|[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

  1. (Christianity) The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.

Noun[edit]

  1. An artistic representation of this event.

|Lion of Judah|[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

  1. (Christianity) Jesus Christ
  2. (Rastafari) the emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

|by and large|[edit]

Adverb[edit]

  1. (set phrase, focus) mostly, generally; with few exceptions

|in thunderation|[edit]

Prepositional phrase[edit]

  1. (US, colloquial) In any set of circumstances whatsoever.

|take the Michael|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive, euphemistic) alternative form of take the mickey, usually considered more polite.

|take the mick|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) Alternative form of take the mickey

|mess up|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
  2. (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
  3. (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
  4. (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
  5. (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
  6. (transitive) To damage; injure.
  7. (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
  8. (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

|give the elbow|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive, slang, Britain) To fire (an employee); to terminate the employment of.

|eat one's young|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation.

|carry the message to Garcia|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive, dated) To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.
  2. (intransitive, dated) To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.

|bone dry|[edit]

Adjective[edit]

  1. Alternative form of bone-dry

|deliver the message to Garcia|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) Alternative form of carry the message to Garcia

|last trump|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. The moment of God's final judgement on Earth.
  2. (by extension) A time that will never come; forever.

|like it or lump it|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. to accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.

|lump to one's throat|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. On the point of crying due to strong emotion, either happy or sad.

|one at a time|[edit]

Adverb[edit]

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one,‎ at a time.

|back-cloth star|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.

|butterfly upon a wheel|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. An innocent person (usually a female) crushed by life's adversities.

|cat and dog life|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Unhappy married life.

|cat in the sack|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Something to be suspicious of.

|smart chance|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (US, colloquial) A substantial quantity of something.

|all over oneself|[edit]

Phrase[edit]

  1. Feeling self-satisfied.

|thief in the night|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Something stealthy or that occurs without warning.

|light up|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
  2. (transitive) To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
  3. (intransitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
  4. (transitive) To make happy.
  5. (transitive, slang) To open fire on a target or group of targets.
  6. (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To shock (someone) with a stun gun.

|sort out|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
  2. (transitive) To arrange.
  3. (transitive) To fix, as a problem.
  4. (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
  5. (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
  6. (transitive, Britain, slang) To attack physically.
  7. (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.

|turn off|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (transitive) To power down, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
  2. (transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
  3. (transitive) To repulse, disgust, or discourage.
  4. (intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.

|turn back|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
  2. To return to a previous state of being.
  3. (transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
  4. (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
  5. (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.

|turn up|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
  2. (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
  3. (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
  4. (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
  5. (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
  6. (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.

Noun[edit]

  1. A stroke of good luck.

|drug of choice|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (law, narcotics) The particular (usually illicit) substance that a person is addicted to.
  2. The best-choice medication to treat a particular medical problem.

|chomp at the bit|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (intransitive) To show impatience or frustration when delayed.

|Chinaman on one's back|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. (slang) A drug addiction.
  2. (slang) Withdrawal symptoms.

|rag the puck|[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. (ice hockey) To retain possession of the puck by skillful skating and stickhandling without attempting to score, as a deliberate tactic intended to use up time.
  2. (chiefly Canada, by extension) To proceed slowly at an activity in order to use up time; to stall for time.

|hustle and bustle|[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. A large amount of activity and work, usually in a noisy surrounding.