a

• aboard
• admirably
• adventure
• airline
• alpha male
• alphabetically
• amazingly
• as yet
• at the hands of

b

• bad luck
• baked beans
• blow up in one's face
• boffin
• bottoming the house
• bounce a check
• bounce off the walls
• bowl a googly
• break a sweat
• break bread
• break bulk
• break one's fast
• break ranks
• break the ice
• breathe down someone's neck
• bring a knife to a gunfight
• bring home the bacon
• bring it
• bum bag

c

• come again

d

• dust bunny

e

• efficacy
• extensively

f

• fabulous
• face validity
• fairy bread
• fantastically
• for good measure
• fortune favors the bold
• fully

f cont.

• fuse

g

• get one's ass in gear
• gray water
• guilt

h

• heart-warming

i

• if looks could kill
• if the shoe fits
• impossibly
• incomplete
• invoice

j

• jewel case

l

• lay at the feet of
• lifesaver

m

• moo-moo

n

• newfangled
• not know which end is up

o

• on the street
• otherwise

p

• paramedic
• paremiology
• periodically
• play it by ear
• polysemous
• postmodern
• prepositional phrase
• proceeds
• putative

r

• reasonably
• rewind
• roil

s

• same old story
• scientifically
• shower gel
• steer
• stretch the truth
• supplementary
• supremely
• suspiciously

t

• that ship has sailed

t cont.

• touché
• tragic
• turbojet

u

• ugg boot
• unbelievably
• undoubtedly
• uninvite
• unsafely

v

• vent one's spleen
• vivid
• vote with one's feet

w

• wait for the other shoe to drop
• wait on hand and foot
• wake up and smell the coffee
• walk a tightrope
• walk on eggshells
• walk the talk
• waste breath
• wear rose-colored glasses
• wear something on one's sleeve
• wear the trousers
• wear thin
• wet one's whistle
• whatever
• whistle Dixie
• whistle past the graveyard
• wind back
• wipe one's nose
• wipe the slate clean
• wonderfully
• work someone's ass off
• work the room
• work to rule
• wrap around one's little finger

y

• yay
• yuk it up

z

• zealously