Thursday 29 April 2010

ghost

ghost as pale as a ghost
ghost (as) white as a ghost
ghost give up the ghost
ghost a ghost of a chance
gift have the gift of gab
gild gild the lily
gills blue around the gills
gills green around the gills
gills pale around the gills
gird gird (up) one’s loins
give give a blank check to someone
give give a good account of oneself
give give-and-take
give give (an) ear to someone or something
give give as good as one gets
give give birth to someone or some creature
give give birth to something
give give carte blanche to someone
give give chase (to someone or something)
give give credence to something
give give credit where credit is due
give give free rein to someone
give give ground
give give her the gun
give give in (to someone or something)
Give Give it a rest.
give give it the gun
Give Give it time.
give give it to someone (straight)
Give Give it up.
give give of oneself
give give one’s ear to someone or something
Give Give one an inch, and one will take a mile.
give give one a run for one’s money
give give one butterflies in one’s stomach
give give one one’s freedom
give give one one’s walking papers
give give one what’s coming to one
give give out
give give rise to something
give give someone or something a wide berth
give give someone or something the (old) heave-ho
give give someone a bang
give give someone a big send-off
give give someone a black eye
give give someone a blank check
give give someone a break
give give someone a bright idea
give give someone a bum steer
give give someone a buzz
give give someone a charge
give give someone a clean bill of health
give give someone a dirty look
give give someone a fair shake
give give someone a fix on something
give give someone a free hand (with something)
give give someone a (good) dressing-down
give give someone a hand (for something)
give give someone a hand (with someone or something)
give give someone a hard time
give give someone a head start (on someone or something)
give give someone a kick
give give someone a licking
give give someone a line
give give someone an earful
give give someone a pain
give give someone a pat on the back
give give someone a piece of one’s mind
give give someone a rain check (on something)
give give someone a raw deal
give give someone a reputation (as a something)

give give someone a reputation (for doing something)
give give someone a ring
give give someone a rough idea (about something)
give give someone a rough idea (of something)
give give someone a shellacking
give give someone a slap on the wrist
give give someone a start
give give someone a swelled head
give give someone a tongue-lashing
give give someone carte blanche
give give someone credit (for something)
give give someone free rein
give give someone goose bumps
give give someone goose pimples
give give someone gray hair(s)
give give someone hell
give give someone pause
give give someone some skin
give give someone the air
give give someone the ax
give give someone the benefit of the doubt
give give someone the boot
give give someone the brush-off
give give someone the bum’s rush
give give someone the business
give give someone the cold shoulder
give give someone the creeps
give give someone the devil
give give someone the eye
give give someone the gate
give give someone the glad hand
give give someone the go-ahead
give give someone the go-by
give give someone the green light
give give someone the hard sell
give give someone the high sign
give give someone the low-down (on someone or
something)
give give someone the once-over
give give someone the red-carpet treatment
give give someone the runaround
give give someone the sack
give give someone the shirt off one’s back
give give someone the slip
give give someone the third degree
give give someone the willies
give give someone the works
give give someone tit for tat
give give someone to understand something
give give someone what for
give give something a lick and a promise
give give something a shot
give give something a whirl
give give something one’s best shot
give give the bride away
give give the devil her due
give give the devil his due
give give the game away
give give up the ghost
give give vent to something
give give voice to something
give not give a hang (about someone or something)
give not give a hoot (about someone or something)
give not give it another thought
give not give someone the time of day
give not give two hoots (about someone or something)
give would give one’s right arm (for someone or something)
given given to doing something
given given to understand
given a given
glad get the glad hand
glad give someone the glad hand
glance at first glance
glass (as) smooth as glass
glass have a glass jaw
glass smooth as glass
glitters All that glitters is not gold.
glory in one’s glory
gloss gloss something over
glove fit like a glove
glove hand in glove (with someone)
gloves handle someone with kid gloves
glow feel a glow of something
glutton glutton for punishment
gnash gnash one’s teeth
go all systems (are) go
go buy something to go
go Don’t let it go any further.
go easy come, easy go
go enough to go (a)round
go from the word go
go get something to go
go get the go-ahead
go get the go-by
go get-up-and-go
go give someone the go-ahead
go give someone the go-by
go go about one’s business
go go against the grain
go go all out
go go all the way (with someone)
go go along for the ride
go go a long way in doing something
go go a long way toward doing something
go go along (with someone or something)
go go ape (over someone or something)
go go (a)round in circles
go go (a)round the bend
go go around with someone
go go astray
go go at it hammer and tongs
go go at it tooth and nail
go go at someone or something
go go away empty-handed
go go AWOL
go go back on one’s word
go go bad
go go bananas
go go begging
go go broke
go go by the board
go go by the book
go go chase oneself
Go Go climb a tree!

go go cold turkey
go go crazy
go go down fighting
go go downhill
go go down in history
go go Dutch
go go easy (on someone or something)
go go fifty-fifty (on something)
Go Go fly a kite!
go go for broke
go go for it
go go for someone or something
go go from bad to worse
Go Go fry an egg!
go go great guns
go go haywire
go go hog-wild
go go in a body
go go in for something
go go in one ear and out the other
go go into action
go go into a nosedive
go go into a tailspin
go go into detail
go go into effect
go go into hiding
go go into hock
go go into one’s song and dance (about something)
go go into orbit
go go into something
go go it alone
Go Go jump in the lake!
go go like clockwork
go good to go
go go off
go go on
go go out (for something)
go go out of fashion
go go out of one’s way (to do something)
go go out of style
go go (out) on strike
go go out (with someone)
go go over
go go places
Go Go play in the traffic
go go right through someone
go go scot-free
go go sky-high
go go so far as to say something
go go someone one better
go go (somewhere) by shank’s mare
go go stag
go go steady (with someone)
go go stir-crazy
go go straight
go go the distance
go go the extra mile
go go the limit
go go through
go go to any length
go go to bat for someone
go go to bed
go go to Davy Jones’s locker
go go together
go go to (hell)
go go to hell in a handbasket
go go too far
go go to pieces
go go to pot
go go to rack and ruin
go go to seed
go go to someone’s head
go go to the bathroom
go go to (the devil)
go go to the dogs
go go to the expense (of doing something)
go go to the lavatory
go go to the limit
go go to the toilet
go go to the trouble (of doing something)
go go to the trouble (to do something)
go go to the wall
go go to town
go go to waste
go go to wrack and ruin
go go under
go go up in flames
go go up in smoke
go go whole hog
go go window-shopping
go go without (something)
go go with something
go go with the flow
go go wrong
go have a go (at something)
go have one’s heart go out to someone
go have something to go
go Here you go.
go let go of someone or something
go let go (with something)
go Let it go.
go let oneself go
go let someone go
go make a go of it
go not able to go on
go on the go
go order something to go
go pay as you go
go rarin’ to go
go stop-and-go
go Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
go There you go.
go touch and go
goat get someone’s goat
goats separate the sheep from the goats
God Honest to God.
God an act of God
goes as far as it goes
goes goes to show you
goes goes without saying
goes Here goes nothing.
goes Here (it) goes.
goes How goes it (with you)?
goes off someone or something goes

goes one’s heart goes out to someone
goes Pride goes before a fall.
goes So it goes.
goes What goes around, comes around.
going have a good thing going
going have a lot going (for one)
going have a thing going (with someone)
going have something going (for oneself)
going have something going (with someone)
going heavy going
going How’s it going?
going not know if one is coming or going
going not know whether one is coming or going
going slow going
going when the going gets rough
going when the going gets tough
going the going

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