a house is not a home »
A home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere.
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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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ask in »
To invite someone to enter one's house.
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ask round »
To invite someone to your house.
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bend one's elbow »
To drink alcoholic beverages, especially at a public house or bar.
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bit by a barn mouse »
Tipsy.
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bottoming the house »
The process by where someone cleans their house 'from top to bottom'. It is a very thorough clean indeed, even more so than 'spring cleaning'.
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breadwinner »
The member of a household who earns all or most of the income
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bridge »
An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
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bring down the house »
To garner enthusiastic or wild applause.
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build a better mousetrap »
To invent the next great thing; to have a better idea.
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built like a brick shithouse »
Exceptionally well constructed; strong or tough.
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built like a brick shithouse »
Of a person, with an exceptionally well-developed chest.
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cat and mouse game »
Two individuals and/or groups repeatedly keeping check on each other in a suspicious or self-protective way, often with the goal of one or both parties trying to gain a malicious advantage over the other.
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