Colloquialisms

“Book of Threes” a Subject Reference Encyclopedia of concepts in threes

Colloquialisms

Here you will find "old wives tales", superstitions and famous sayings. From "Three is the Magic Number" to language "hooks" like "of the people, by the people, and for the people. Definition: an informal word or expression which is more suitable for use in speech than in writing

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1 every which way
2 toi-toi-toi
3 beg, borrow or steal
4 ball of wax
5 lucky in love
6 bite the bullet
7 devil may care
8 Lay an egg
9 The three R's
10 Three-peat
11 Brew Ha Ha
12 AWOL - absent without leave
13 Merry come
14 Lights, Camera, Action
15 Frank Sinatra
16 Things to do, places to go and people to see
17 up, up and away
18 A 3-fold cord is not easily broken
19 Primary school
20 Measure TWICE...cut ONCE
21 Scottish toast
22 Hat trick
23 Three squares
24 The Whole Nine Yards
25 On the lam
26 Right as a Trivet
27 Kentish Fire
28 Borrowed from April
29 When three Thursdays meet
30 Third wheel
31 The three best doctors
32 When three Sundays come together.
33 Women and children first, men last
34 Where with all
35 He was on that like a pack of dogs on a three-legged cat
36 Busier than a three legged cat in a dry sand box
37 Three reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August
38 hotter than a three pecked goat in a field full of nannies
39 finer than frogs hair, split three ways
40 like a three ring circus
41 n any way, shape or form
42 Beg, borrow or steal
43 Three versions to every story
44 CAMBODIAN BELIEFS AND MANNERS
45 Native American Saying
46 hop, skip and a jump
47 blah, blah, blah
48 Location location location
49 Good/bad things happened in threes
50 This, that and the other

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