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database is a comprehensive collection of all the American idioms and slang available.
American Idioms are many and varied. We hope you enjoy our collection. We are adding more all the time.
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salt of the earth
What does salt of the earth mean? | basic and fundamentally good people | The members of our club are all the salt of the earth and are fun to spend time with.
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salt of the earth
What does salt of the earth mean? | good/basic/honest/ordinary people | Our new neighbors are the salt of the earth. They are good, basic, honest people.
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salt of the earth
What does salt of the earth mean? | good/basic/honest/ordinary people |
Our new neighbors are the salt of the earth. They are good, basic, honest people.
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salt of the earth
What does salt of the earth mean? | the most worthy of people, a very good or worthy person, a person who is decent and dependable and unpretentious (from the Bible) |
Our neighbors are the salt of the earth and we like them very much.
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salt of the earth
What does salt of the earth mean? | basically and fundamentally good simple people |
The members of our club are the salt of the earth and are fun to be with.
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Some Random Idioms
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Small beer
What does "Small beer" mean? | If something is small beer, it's unimportant. |
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Watery grave
What does "Watery grave" mean? | If someone has gone to a watery grave, they have drowned. |
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All's fair in love and war
What does "All's fair in love and war" mean? | This idiom is used to say that where there is conflict, people can be expected to behave in a more vicious way. |
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fudge packer
What does "fudge packer" mean? | man who engages in anal sex with another man |
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Can't dance and it's too wet to plow
What does "Can't dance and it's too wet to plow" mean? | When you can't dance and it's too wet to plow, you may as well do something because you can't or don't have the opportunity to do anything else. |
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire
What does "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" mean? | If you get out of one problem, but find yourself in a worse situation, you are out of the frying pan, into the fire. |
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Keep it on the Q T
What does "Keep it on the Q T" mean? | If you keep something on the Q T, you keep it quiet or secret.('Q-T' is also used.) |
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at loggerheads with (someone)
What does "at loggerheads with (someone)" mean? | to be having a quarrel with someone, to oppose someone | We have been at loggerheads with the company over their plans to build a new office complex.
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every inch a (something)
What does "every inch a (something)" mean? | completely, in every way | Jack was every inch a sailor and loved to go out on the ocean with his boat.
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by any means
What does "by any means" mean? | by any way possible |
We need to find a computer by any means.
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throw off (someone)
What does "throw off (someone)" mean? | to mislead/confuse/fool someone | The criminals threw off the police and ran into the subway.
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