Chapter D: Daggers drawn, at, 86

Dance attendance to, 88, 138

Dark as pitch, 130

Dark side of picture, 159, 205

Daub yourself with honey, 48

Day after the fair, 167

Dead man, he is a, 6

Dead men’s shoes, 165

Dead men tell no tales, 37

Deaf as a post, as, 215

Death’s door, at, 22, 99

Devil and deep sea, between, 107, 158

Devil not so black as painted, 96

Devil’s own luck, 79

Devil was sick, 96

Diamond cut diamond, 63, 92, 125

Die in the gutter, 175

Die is cast, 213

Dine with Duke Humphrey, 73

Dirt cheap, 3

Discretion better part of valour, 43

Disgorge ill-gotten gains, 136

Distance lends enchantment, 99

Do a thing yourself, 5

Dog at a wedding, 69

Dog bad name and hang, 68

Dog better than dead lion, a living, 90

Dog does not eat dog, 80, 153

Dog has his day, every, 224

Dog in manger, 69

Dog’s-ear a book, 80

Dog will learn no tricks, an old, 146

Done cannot be undone, 117

Doomsday, to wait till, 174

Door with creaking hinge, 120

Down in the mouth, 191

Down to the ground, 4

Do your duty, 95

Dover Court, 207

Draught, to be in a, 11

Draught, to drink at a, 225

Draw in one’s horns, to, 78

Dreams go by contraries, 213

Drink at one gulp, 225

Drink cup to dregs, 41

Drink like a fish, 40

Drop in the ocean, 136

Drop too much, to have a, 82

Dropping water wears away a stone, 103

Drowning man catches at a straw, 3

Drown the miller, 232

Ducks and drakes, to play, 145

Dull as ditchwater, 44, 133

E

Early to bed and early to rise, 23

Easier said than done, 39

East, west, home best, 68

Edged tools, to play with, 122

Edge off one’s appetite, to take, 111

Eel, as slippery as an, 16

Elbow one’s way, 66

Elbow-room, 81

End crowns all, 124, 172

End justifies the means, 42

End to everything, 46, 221

English, in plain, 221

Englishman’s house his castle, 61

Enough is as good as a feast, 78

Errors excepted, 75

Even money, 76

Ever drunk ever dry, 40

Everybody’s business, 16

Every dog has his day, 58

Every inch a republican, 88

Every Jack must have his Jill, 192

Every little helps, 170

Every man for himself, 58, 210

Everything comes man who waits, 23

Extempore, to speak, 2

Extremes meet, 113

Eye to main chance, 213

F

Face the music, 193

Face is her fortune, 27

Faint heart never won fair lady, 143

Fair and softly goes far, 12

Fair words butter no parsnips, 149

Fair words never did harm, 179

Fall between two stools, to, 59

Familiarity breeds contempt, 3

Far fetched, 13

Fault confessed, half redressed, 182

Feather one’s nest, to, 44, 126

Findings keepings, 195

Fine clothes do not fill stomach, 52

Fine feathers make fine birds, 35

Finishing stroke, 83

Finger in every pie, 168

First catch your hare, 182

First come, first served, 95, 194

First in the field, 95

Fish, flesh, nor fowl, 58

Fish in troubled waters, 102

Fish out of water, like a, 191

Fish to fry, other, 63

Fit to a T, 134

Fits and starts, to work by, 33, 43, 209

Fix, to be in a, 101, 185

Flash in the pan, 122

Flesh and blood, in, 58

Flesh creep, to make one’s, 58

Fool’s bolt is soon shot, a, 148

Fools have the best luck, 129

Foot foremost, to put one’s best, 186

Foot in it, to put one’s, 189

Forewarned, forearmed, 26

Fortune knocks once, 129

Fox to keep the geese, to set, 153

Free and easy, 3, 135

French leave, to take, 123

Friend at court, 14

Friend in need is a friend indeed, 13, 37

Frying-pan into the fire, to fall from, 47, 64, 122

Fuel to the fire, to add, 146

Funky, to be, 224

G

Game not worth candle, 60

Gentlemanly, 11

Get blood from a stone, 144

Get out of bed the wrong side, 43

Gift-horse in the mouth, to look at, 49, 66

Gift of the gab, 149

Gild the pill, 187

Give any one the slip, 75

Give him an inch, 48

Give the devil his due, 95

Give twice who gives quickly, 99

Glass houses throw stones, 229

God helps those who help themselves, 9

God sends thread for begun web, 123

God tempers the wind, 48

Go halves, 76

Golden mean, 162

Good as done, 6, 23

Good as gold, as, 144

Good books, to be in one’s, 177

Good breeding always tells, 209

Good name better than riches, 57

Good wine needs no bush, 42, 232

Gordian knot, to cut, 226

Gospel, to take anything for, 21

Go to Jericho, 196

Grandmother to suck eggs, 18, 203

Grapes are sour, 231

Grasp all, lose all, 106

Great cry, little wool, 50

Great wits jump together, 111

Greek to him, it is, 11

Grey mare the better horse, 109, 192

Grist to the mill, 103

Grudge the food he eats, 76

Grudge, to have a, 28

Guilty conscience needs no accuser, 113, 199

H

Habit is second nature, 40

Hackneyed, 79

Hail-fellow-well-met, 75, 176

Hairs, to split, 9

Hale and hearty, 42

Half a loaf is better than no bread, 138, 182

Half in jest, half in earnest, 123

Half seas over, 232

Hall marked, 78

Hand and glove together, 44, 99, 116

Hands make light work, many, 9

Hand to hand, 80

Hand to mouth, to live from, 147

Hanged for a sheep as a lamb, 34, 69, 134

Happen what may, 4, 133

Hard up, 21, 210

Harm watch, harm catch, 155

Harp on same string, 60, 107

Haste makes waste, 141

Haul over the coals, 211

Hawk from handsaw, not to know, 178

Heads or tails, 113

Hear both sides, 71

Helping hand, to give a, 84, 154

Helve after hatchet, 19

He who will not when he may, 202

Hiding, to give a good, 3

High winds blow on high hills, 137

Hint, to take a, 108

Hit the mark, 122

Hit with a vengeance, 154

Holloa before out of wood, 69

Home, no place like, 68, 172

Home, to make oneself at, 3

Honest man’s word, 143, 179

Honesty is the best policy, 126

Honour among thieves, 153

Honour to whom honour is due, 59, 211

Hook or crook, 43

Hooligan, 17

Hope, the last, 188

Horse of another colour, 25, 156

Horse to grass, to send a, 231

Horse, to ride the high, 66

Host, to reckon without, 76, 143

House nor home, 121

H’s, to drop one’s, 89

Hue and cry, 78

Hunger is the best sauce, 18

Hunger tames the lion, 115

Hungry as a hunter, 111

Hungry man is an angry man, 7

Hurry the less speed, the more, 50