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What is a 'hard leg'?
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What is MOJO?
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What is a prison wallet?
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'I was looking at the stars through the windows and wondering if you ought to knock off and hit the sack or keep on listening to Cameron curse real steady.' What does it mean by 'curse real steady'?
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What is the origin of the term hand over fist?
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What is russian roulette?
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What is a spooner?
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What is the origin of the phrase Indian giver?
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Does 'rush hour' mean peak hour?
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What does that old chestnut mean?
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What is an example of a 'bandwagon'?
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What is a turd?
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What is the meaning of shoot for the moon?
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What do they mean by 'hey dude'?
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What does it mean to 'hate your guts'?
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What are different figures of speech?
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What does 'beyond the pale' mean?
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What is a 'neener'?
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What is cream of the crop?
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What is a lush?
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How do you spell Waa Laa?
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What does 'Godspeed' mean?
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What is burst your bubble?
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Which idiom is correct - allows for or allows to?
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Which suffix ism fit the following question informal style of speech using slang?
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What is the meaning of if the shoe fits wear it?
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What is the slang term for the hand wound music movements in music boxes?
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How did the expression 'apple of my eye' come about?
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What does the word ata mean?
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What does the sarcastic expression 'bite me' mean?
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What is the meaning of hubble-bubble idiom?
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What does sea of bitterness mean?
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Where can you find meaning of dialect words?
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What does Funky mean?
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What is the meaning of 'a blessing in diguise'?
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What is the meaning of the word 'cotton' in the sentence 'Ben never did cotton to the sales side of the business'?
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How do you pronounce 'da kine'?
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Why does misery love company?
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Why do people yell Geronimo when they jump off something?
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What does slang mean?
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What is the meaning of being on an edge?
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Is off the track formal?
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What is a 'bodega'?
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What does Pop Goes the Weasel mean?
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What does 'taking your lumps' mean?
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What is the meaning of 'tongue tied'?
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What is bloody hell?
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What does poon tang mean?
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What does 'I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand' mean?
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Did George Bernard Shaw originate the phrase The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain?
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What are the meanings and examples of slang terms?
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What does don't rest on your laurels mean?
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What is the meaning of 'nifty'?
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How did the phrase Russian Roulette originate?
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Why do Cheshire cats grin?
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What does inner self mean?
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What is a proverbial gauntlet?
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What does get your asses handed to us mean?
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What is a hoochie mama?
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Is the saying Beckon call or beck and call?
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Is heart broken an idiom?
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What does 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch' mean?
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Who coined the phrase 'coined the phrase'?
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What does it mean when you ask someone 'who's your daddy'?
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What words are slang for penis?
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What is mac daddy?
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Is 'stuck in a road' an idiom?
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What does odds and ends mean?
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What is the antonym of keep in touch?
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What is 'the norm'?
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