Pop Language

Rebranded Fruit

Brent — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:31:36 +0000

Kiwifruit | Chinese Gooseberry

Rebranded Fish

Brent — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:31:03 +0000

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

Brent — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:10:09 +0000

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

Brent — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:19:32 +0000

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
hands on hips
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

Brent — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:54:30 +0000

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

Brent — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:32:57 +0000

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

Brent — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:30:17 +0000

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

Brent — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:23:30 +0000

X is the new Y

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