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The asses' bridge. [Lat., Pons Asinorum.] - Unattributed Author, applied to Proposition 5 of the first book of Euclid To kiss the rod. - Unattributed Author, History of Reynard the Fox, (William Caxton's translation, printed by him) (1481) Eureka! Eureka! - Archimedes A flea in his ear. - Robert Armin, Nest of Ninnies As proud as Lucifer. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Country Town) As cold as cucumbers. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Cupid's Revenge (act I, sc. 1) As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1) This is a pretty flimflam. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Little French Lawyer (III, 3) No better than you should be. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Coxcomb (act IV, sc. 3) From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2) Something given that way. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Lovers' Progress (act I, sc. 1) A thorn in the flesh. - Bible, II Corinthians (ch. XII, v. 7) As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. - Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta--Emerson Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring. - Tom Brown, Aeneus Sylvius--Letter Turn over a new leaf. - Edmund Burke, Letter to Miss Haviland As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I) Through thick and thin. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, p. 370) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923) As clear as a whistle. - John Byrom, Epistle to Lloyd (I) Put himself upon his good behavior. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 47) By all that's good and glorious. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2) Smell a rat. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IV) Within a stone's throw of it. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX) Make ducks and drakes with shillings. - George Chapman, Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1) As good as a play. - attributed to Charles II, while listening to a debate on Lord Ross's Divorce Bill As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. - Colley Cibber, Love's Last Shift (act II) A nail in the wound. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) To be praised by a man who has won his laurels. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) To have a smattering knowledge of anything. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) The fat's all in the fire. - Cobbe, Prophecies, (Bullen's reprint) (1614) Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. - William Cobbett, referring to a bank as an elderly lady in the city Cut and come again. - George Crabbe, Tales VII (l. 26) Turn over a new leaf. - Thomas Dekker (Decker) Add to golden numbers golden numbers. - Thomas Dekker (Decker), Patient Grissell (act I, sc. 1) The coast was clear. - Michael Drayton, Nymphidia As sure as a gun. - John Dryden With tooth and nail. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes (first week, second day) Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, fourth day, bk. IV) Made no more bones. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, The Maiden Blush As leopard feels at home with leopard. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) To make a mountain of a mole-hill. - Sir Henry Ellis, Original Letters--Second Series (p. 312) Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Adagia (ch. III, cent. VI, 94), quoted from the Greek Needle in a bottle of hay. - Nathan Field (later Nathaniel Field), A Woman's a Weathercock (p. 20), reprint 1612 Like his that lights a candle to the sun. - Andrew Fletcher, Lord Innerpeffer (1), in a letter to Sir Walter Aston To cut a whetstone with a razor. - Lucius Annaeus Florus Diamonds cut diamonds. - John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy (act I, sc. 3) Moehe Crye and no Wull. - Sir John Fortescue Displaying page 1 of 18 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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