ahead of the game »
Having completed a task before it is due; ready, prepared, or anticipating.
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all eyes »
Gazing at devotedly.
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all mouth and no trousers »
Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.
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all mouth and trousers »
Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.
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all over the shop »
Everywhere, scattered, disorganised.
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arm candy »
An attractive, seemingly romantic companion who accompanies a person in public simply so that one or both of the individuals can gain attention, enhance social status, or create an impression of sexual appeal.
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ask my arse »
A common reply to any question; still deemed wit at sea, and formerly at court, under the denomination of selling bargains.
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assault and battery »
. This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.
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at cross purposes »
Against one another; contrary in direction or goals.
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at the mercy of »
In the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.
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autem mort »
A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
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back gammon player »
A sodomite.
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back-cloth star »
An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to gain more attention to himself.
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bag and baggage »
All one's possessions.
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baggage »
Heavy baggage; women and children. Also a familiar epithet for a woman; as, cunning baggage, wanton baggage, &c.
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