Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red by Thompson, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction—Start from Scratch: Meaning Versus Origin Chapter 1—As the Crow Flies: The Nautical World

Batten Down the Hatches Cut and Run First Rate Square Meal Whistle for It Hunky Dory Have Someone Over a Barrel Cut of Your Jib Three Sheets to the Wind Footloose and Fancy Free As the Crow Flies Tide You Over Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Hard and Fast Long Shot Know the Ropes Touch and Go By and Large Bitter End Show Your True Colors Dead in the Water Loose Cannon In the Offing Cat Got Your Tongue? On the Right Track Freeze the Balls off a Brass Monkey Hand over Fist Turn a Blind Eye Pass with Flying Colors Give a Wide Berth Spick and Span Flog a Dead Horse Under the Weather Turn the Corner In the Doldrums Your Ship Has Come In Taken Aback Leave High and Dry Son of a Gun Money for Old Rope Nail Your Colors to the Mast Raining Cats and Dogs On the Fiddle Shake a Leg Slush Fund You Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours At a Loose End

Chapter 2—Take a Rain Check: Sports and Games

Knuckle Down You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide Knock the Spots Off Win Hands Down Above Board High Jinks Add Another String to Your Bow Wild Goose Chase Hell Bent for Leather Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve Upset the Apple Cart Have the Bit between Your Teeth Aid and Abet Below the Belt Great White Hope Up the Ante Take a Rain Check Upper Hand Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth Get Someone’s Goat Down to the Wire Keep It Up Start from Scratch Full Tilt Turn the Tables Dead End Crew Cut Well Heeled Pass the Buck Couldn’t Swing a Cat Palm Off Point Blank Come Up to Scratch Left in the Lurch Across the Board Clapped Out No Dice Blue Ribbon Event At the Drop of a Hat The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall Chip on Your Shoulder Bottle It Throw Your Hat into the Ring Battle Royal Bandied About Nick of Time

Chapter 3—Carry the Can: Work, Trades, and Money

Get Fired At Sixes and Sevens Fly off the Handle Knock Off Work Up to the Mark Against the Grain Tarred with the Same Brush Dressed to the Nines See How It Pans Out Get Off Scot-Free Fair to Middling That’s Just the Ticket Talking Turkey Foot the Bill On the Breadline Lame Duck Fly by the Seat of Your Pants Carry the Can Mad as a Hatter Stone Broke Dead as a Door Nail Bank on Someone Filthy Rich Run of the Mill Let the Cat Out of the Bag Gone Haywire Break the Ice Sold Down the River On the Level Peter Out Barge In No Such Thing as a Free Lunch Our Work Cut Out for Us Hold a Candle Make Ends Meet Hedge Your Bets Nineteen to the Dozen Get the Sack Black Market In a Shambles Burn the Candle at Both Ends At Full Blast

Chapter 4—Bite the Bullet: Military Matters

Back to the Drawing Board Gung Ho Wreak Havoc Face the Music Last-Ditch Attempt Hang Fire Hit the Ground Running Throw Down the Gauntlet Rise and Shine The Whole Nine Yards Chance Your Arm Beat a Hasty Retreat Feather in Your Cap Bury the Hatchet On a Wing and a Prayer Down a Peg or Two Basket Case Flash in the Pan Diehard Supporter Pyrrhic Victory Over the Top On Your High Horse Hold the Fort Parting Shot Ride Roughshod Bite the Bullet More Bang for Your Buck Molotov Cocktail

Chapter 5—On the Bandwagon: The Political Realm

Spin Doctor Blood, Sweat, and Tears When It Comes to the Crunch Bite the Hand that Feeds You Bob’s Your Uncle Whistle Stop Tour In the Bag Hear, Hear Nothing Is Certain Except for Death and Taxes Toe the Line Off the Cuff Pie in the Sky On the Bandwagon

Chapter 6—In the Limelight: That’s Entertainment

Back to Square One Keeping Up with the Joneses Ham It Up Soap Opera Blonde Bombshell Fit as a Fiddle In the Limelight Steal Your Thunder Break a Leg Cut to the Chase Pull Out All the Stops It’s a Funny Old World Put a Sock in It Pleased as Punch Egg on Your Face Old Chestnut In the Groove Life of Reilly Sixty-Four Dollar Question Put the Dampers On

Chapter 7—Purple Patch: Ancient Times

Two-Faced Wrong Side of the Bed Out of the Blue Green with Envy Achilles’ Heel Call a Spade a Spade Go with the Flow Spill the Beans Purple Patch It’s All Greek to Me Ears Are Burning Right-Hand Man Rest on One’s Laurels Lick It into Shape To Have a Frog in Your Throat At Bay Red-Letter Day Taken with a Pinch of Salt Hanging by a Thread Give the Thumbs Up The Die Is Cast No Stone Unturned Not Worth His Salt Dog Day Afternoon Lily Livered Burn Your Bridges Set Off on the Wrong Foot Eat Your Heart Out Fits to a T The Wrong End of the Stick Mountain Out of a Molehill By Heart Lap of the Gods

Chapter 8—Bold as Brass: People and Names

To Plug Something Blue Blood Your Name Is Mud Bold As Brass Peeping Tom The Real McCoy A Place in the Sun Cock and Bull Story Spruce Up Fifteen Minutes of Fame Smart Alec Jack the Lad Run Amok Air Your Dirty Laundry in Public John Hancock Barking Mad Nosy Parker Mickey Finn

Chapter 9—In the Doghouse: Literature

World Is Your Oyster Add Insult to Injury Artful Dodger The Lion’s Share Clutching at Straws Ivory Tower Go the Whole Hog All Hell Broke Loose In the Doghouse Sour Grapes Blowing Hot and Cold Cold Feet Dark Horse Between You, Me, and the Lamppost Leap of Faith Big Brother Is Watching Eat Me Out of House and Home As Sure As Eggs Catch-22 Dropping like Flies Grinning like a Cheshire Cat Curry Favor Ignorance Is Bliss Go See a Man about a Dog Goody-Two-Shoes

Chapter 10—Bring Home the Bacon: Culinary Delights

Best Thing since Sliced Bread Take the Piss Put through the Mill Broach a Subject Take the Cake Hair of the Dog Doesn’t Cut the Mustard Piping Hot Go Cold Turkey Propose a Toast Gone to Pot Don’t Teach Your Grandmother to Suck Eggs Bring Home the Bacon Eat Humble Pie Give a Cold Shoulder Mind Your P’s and Q’s Flavor of the Month

Chapter 11—Apple of Your Eye: Biblical Times

The Eleventh Hour Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Doubting Thomas Baptism of Fire Fly in the Ointment The Writing Is on the Wall A Little Bird Told Me Take under Your Wing Stumbling Block By the Skin of Your Teeth Play the Fool Devil’s Advocate Makes Your Hair Stand on End Bless You Drop in the Ocean Apple of Your Eye Wash Your Hands of It Straight and Narrow Enter the Lions’ Den The Powers that Be Kiss of Death In Seventh Heaven Blind Leading the Blind

Chapter 12—Caught Red-Handed: Law and Order

Short Shrift To Double Cross Hung, Drawn, and Quartered By Hook or By Crook To Be Screwed Take for a Ride Laughing Stock Pull the Wool over Your Eyes There but for the Grace of God Go I Read the Riot Act Pay through the Nose Paint the Town Red Rule of Thumb Haul Someone Over the Coals Pipe Dreams Give Someone a Break Baker’s Dozen In Cold Blood Red Tape Cat and Mouse Kangaroo Court Buying Time Skeleton in the Closet Have a Beef Put Your Thinking Cap On Pillar to Post Caught Red-Handed Rings True

Chapter 13—Beat around the Bush: Animals and Nature

Fair Game Get Your Back Up Get into a Scrape Knock on Wood White Elephant Pecking Order Once in a Blue Moon Swan Song As Bald as a Badger To Fly in the Face Make a Beeline for Wet behind the Ears A Cat Has Nine Lives Beat around the Bush Red Herring I’ll Be a Monkey’s Uncle Birds and the Bees Nest Egg Barking up the Wrong Tree Booby Prize Final Straw Bee’s Knees

Chapter 14—Tie the Knot: Till Death Do Us Part

Saved by the Bell Kick the Bucket Tie the Knot Dead Ringer Head over Heels Sleep Tight Lead up the Garden Path

Chapter 15—In a Nutshell: Miscellaneous Matters

Gone ’round the Bend Pidgin English Down in the Dumps On Skid Row In a Nutshell Play Hooky Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop The Third Degree Chop and Change Blown to Smithereens Round Robin Dressed to Kill Riding Shotgun In a Jiffy Mumbo Jumbo Warm the Cockles of Your Heart Butter Someone Up Without Batting an Eyelid An Ax to Grind Read between the Lines To Egg On Cloud Nine Spitting Image On the Grapevine Warts and All From the Wrong Side of the Tracks On the Wagon Whole Kit and Kaboodle Close, but No Cigar Have a Hunch To Be Blackballed

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