Idioms and Phrases
22 August 2008Q
Quality time - Meaning: Time in which individual attention is given to an otherwise neglected child or partner.
Queer as a nine bob note - Meaning: Odd or unusual.
Queer Street - Meaning: An imaginary street where people in difficulty live.
Queer the pitch - Meaning: Interfere with or spoil the business of a tradesman or showman.
Quick and the dead - Meaning: All souls - alive or dead.
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Rabbit and pork - Meaning: Talk.
Raining cats and dogs - Meaning: Raining very heavily.
Read between the lines - Meaning: Discern a meaning which isn’t made obvious or explicit.
Red-letter day - Meaning: In earlier times a church festival or saint’s day; more recently, any special day.
Red tape - Meaning: Rigid or mechanical adherence to bureaucratic rules and regulations especially those involving unnecessary paperwork.
Ring down the curtain - Meaning: Bring something to an end.
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