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Total questions: 1683
What are 'fadsticks'?Popularity: 118
What does it mean to be Rickrolled?
Popularity: 110
Where did the phrase 'she is trying to get your goat' come from and what does it mean?
Popularity: 90
What is a surf punk?
Popularity: 84
What is meaning of the phrase 'b' juses'?
Popularity: 70
What is a pet peeve?
Popularity: 62
What are Wellies?
Popularity: 60
What is the origin and history of 'An eye for an eye - A tooth for a tooth'?
Popularity: 59
Who coined the term elephant in the room?
Popularity: 53
What does 'beauty is more than skin deep' mean?
Popularity: 52
Where did the phrase 'cute as a button' come from?
Popularity: 51
What is meant by the saying 'Your smile is your umbrella on a rainy day'?
Popularity: 50
What does 'dire straits' mean?
Popularity: 49
What does the expression 'lame duck' mean?
Popularity: 49
What does it mean for a person to be 'thick'?
Popularity: 49
What are the parties called where popular kids invite unpopular and unattractive people?
Popularity: 49
Where did the term horse play is fools play originate from?
Popularity: 49
People usually have some words often used in their language eg okie dokie - What are such words called -commonly used words by a person- in his speech?
Popularity: 48
What is a basket case?
Popularity: 48
What is the meaning of 'It sucks'?
Popularity: 48
What is a practical idiom?
Popularity: 46
Where did the expression 'the bee's knees' originate?
Popularity: 46
What does quief mean?
Popularity: 45
What does the phrase 'Monday morning quarterbacking' mean?
Popularity: 44
What does the phrase 'aw c'mon' mean?
Popularity: 44
How did the expression 'In like Flynn' come about?
Popularity: 43
Where did the saying once a man twice a child come from?
Popularity: 43
What does the phrase 'flipping the bozo bit' mean?
Popularity: 43
What are 1970s slang words?
Popularity: 43
What is the meaning of the saying as hard as the hobbs of hell?
Popularity: 42
What is crab mentality?
Popularity: 42
What is Old English for hedgehog?
Popularity: 42
What is the slang word used to indicate mistake?
Popularity: 42
Where did the phrase 'paint the town red' originate?
Popularity: 42
What does 'desperate times call for desperate measures' mean?
Popularity: 42
How did sayings that had nothing to do with the meaning like 'head over heels in love' come to be?
Popularity: 42
What does Throw a sheep mean?
Popularity: 41
Phrase of come se come sa?
Popularity: 41
What does lil' mean as slang?
Popularity: 41
How did the terms Jane Doe and John Doe originate?
Popularity: 40
What does 'the seven year itch' mean?
Popularity: 40
Sin aliento means?
Popularity: 40
What can be a slogan on literacy?
Popularity: 39
What does the idiom Popped his cork mean?
Popularity: 39
What is the saying that says 'if you don't ------ then I won't pee in your pool'?
Popularity: 39
What is a Dwag?
Popularity: 39
Where did the expression 'crossing Jordan' originate?
Popularity: 39
What is the origin of the term 'its all good'?
Popularity: 38
Since people say someone tanned is 'as brown as a berry' which berries are brown?
Popularity: 38
What does 'Whats up' mean?
Popularity: 38
What is the origin of the phrase 'to turn in' in the context of 'to go to bed'?
Popularity: 37
What is a dofus?
Popularity: 37
What does okey dokey mean?
Popularity: 37
What is the meaning of 'up the ante'?
Popularity: 37
What is the meaning of the idiom 'by the look of things'?
Popularity: 37
Where does the expression OK come from and what do the letters stand for?
Popularity: 36
What is the meaning of mud pie?
Popularity: 36
How much time is in a jiffy?
Popularity: 36
What does to drive a stake into the heart of mean?
Popularity: 35
Where did the expression 'It ain't over til' the fat lady sings' originate?
Popularity: 35
Where did the phrase out of order come from?
Popularity: 34
What's the meaning of I had my house painted?
Popularity: 34
What is an example sentence for forearmed is forewarned?
Popularity: 33
Is fugazy an english word?
Popularity: 33
What does 'Hillary Factor' mean - is it a phenomenon?
Popularity: 32
What does 'beauty is only skin deep' mean?
Popularity: 32
What figure of speech beauty and brains?
Popularity: 30
Why the expression Land of Goshen?
Popularity: 24
What does it mean to eat possum?
Popularity: 24
Do you sock like when you throw?
Popularity: 23
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