Rebranded Fruit

2009 July 31
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by Brent
  • Kiwifruit | Chinese Gooseberry

Rebranded Fish

2009 July 31
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  • Chilean Sea Bass | Patagonian Toothfish
  • Cornish Sole | Megrim
  • Cornish Sardine | Pilchard
  • Orange Roughy | Slimehead
  • Pacifc Red Snapper | Rockfish
  • Rock Salmon | Dogfish
  • Torbay Sole | Witch Fish

English Animal Names With An Unmarked Plural

2009 June 15
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  • alpaca
  • antelope
  • bass
  • buffalo
  • cattle
  • deer
  • eel
  • elk
  • grouse
  • guinea fowl
  • jellyfish
  • mackerel
  • moose
  • quail
  • salmon
  • sheep
  • snipe
  • swine
  • teal
  • trout
  • vicuna
  • walrus

English Alliterative Phrases

2009 February 25
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  • alas and alack
  • back of beyond, the
  • back to back
  • back to basics
  • bag and baggage
  • bear the brunt, to
  • bed and board
  • bee in my bonnet, a
  • bigger the better, the
  • black and blue
  • blind as a bat, as
  • boom or bust
  • born and bred
  • brains or brawn
  • bread and butter
  • brittened and brent
  • brown as a berry
  • captains of commerce
  • chump change
  • clay and clod
  • clean your clock
  • cool as a cucumber
  • dale and down
  • deaf and dumb
  • dime a dozen, a
  • do or die
  • down and dirty
  • down in the dumps
  • ducks and drakes
  • dune and dale
  • fair of face
  • fair or foul
  • fast and furious, the
  • femme fatale
  • fine fettle, in
  • fire and flood
  • firth and fell
  • fish to fry, other
  • fit as a fiddle
  • forgive and forget
  • fortune 500
  • free and fair
  • friends and family
  • frith and field
  • geese and goslings
  • good as gold, as
  • good for the goose is good for the gander, what’s
  • green as grass, as
  • hale and hearty
  • hand over head
  • have and hold
  • have and to hold, to
  • head over heels
  • heart to heart
  • hearth and home
  • heavy hitter
  • hell or high water
  • hide nor hair
  • hill and hollow
  • hot and heavy
  • hounds of hell
  • house and home
  • house and harbour
  • judge and jury
  • jump for joy, to
  • kit and caboodle
  • kith and kin
  • labor of love
  • law of the land. the
  • lesson learned
  • lessons learned
  • life and limb
  • lith and land
  • lithe and lissom
  • live and learn
  • look before you leap
  • lords and ladies
  • make or miss
  • mark and meed
  • meet your match
  • might and main
  • mind over matter
  • mixed message
  • mixed messages
  • more, the merrier, the
  • neck and neck
  • need to know
  • next to nothing
  • now or never
  • pack a punch
  • part and parcel
  • peer pressure
  • penny wise, pound foolish
  • pet peeve
  • phrase and fable
  • pole position
  • poor but proud
  • pots and pans
  • pride of place
  • prim and proper
  • prime the pump
  • raise the roof
  • right and wrong
  • risk and reward
  • rock and roll
  • sand and shore
  • saints and sinners
  • sink or swim
  • slip and slide
  • spick and span
  • stars and stripes
  • sticks and stones
  • strand and stream
  • sugar and spice
  • swear and stare
  • sweet and sour
  • sweet as sugar, as
  • sweet science
  • take your time
  • thick and thin
  • thick as thieves, as
  • think twice
  • time and tide
  • time will tell
  • tit for tat
  • topsy-turvy
  • trailer trash
  • trash talking
  • tried and true
  • trim for tram, to take
  • vim and vigor
  • war of words
  • wit and wisdom
  • word to the wise, a
  • writing is on the wall, the

English Rhyming Phrases

2009 February 25
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  • argy-bargy
  • arsy-varsy
  • arty-farty
  • back-ackwards
  • bigwig
  • boob-tube
  • boogie-woogie
  • chick flick
  • chock-a-block
  • easy-peasy
  • eensy-weensy
  • fuddy-duddy
  • fuzzy-wuzzy
  • gang-bang
  • hanky-panky
  • happy-clappy
  • harum-scarum
  • heebie-jeebies
  • helter-skelter
  • higgledy-piggledy
  • hob-nob
  • hobson-jobson
  • hocus-pocus
  • hodge-podge
  • hoity-toity
  • hokey-pokey
  • hub-bub
  • hubble-bubble
  • hugger-mugger
  • humpty-dumpty
  • istsy-bitsy
  • itty-bitty
  • June gloom
  • lardy-dardy
  • lovey-dovey
  • mumbo-jumbo
  • namby-pamby
  • nitty-gritty
  • okey-dokey
  • pell-mell
  • rag-tag
  • raggle-taggle
  • razzle-dazzle
  • rump and stump
  • rumpy-bumpy
  • rumpy-pumpy
  • sing-song
  • slap-happy
  • surf and turf
  • teenie-weenie
  • teensy-weensy
  • walkie-talkie
  • willy-nilly
  • woo-hoo

English Reduplicated Phrases

2009 February 25
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  • blah-blah
  • bling-bling
  • bye-bye
  • chi-chi
  • choo-choo
  • chop-chop
  • goody-goody
  • knock-knock
  • no-no
  • rah-rah
  • shi-shi
  • so-so
  • wee-wee
  • yada-yada

English Reduplicated Ablaut Phrases

2009 February 25
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  • bric-a-brac
  • chit-chat
  • clip-clop
  • dilly-dally
  • ding-dong
  • fiddle-faddle
  • flim-flam
  • flip-flop
  • frick and frack
  • gibble-gabble
  • hip-hop
  • kringlety-kranglety
  • mish-mash
  • ning-nong
  • ping-pong
  • riff-raff
  • shilly-shally
  • sing-song
  • swish-swash
  • tick-tock
  • tip-top
  • trim for tram
  • twiddle-twaddle
  • wishy-washy
  • zig-zag

English Snowclones

2009 February 25
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X is the new Y

  • fiscal responsibility is the new counter-culture
  • green is the new new and improved
  • green is the new gold