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- All roads lead to Rome
- This means that there can be many different ways of doing something.
- Big Easy
- (USA) The Big Easy is New Orleans, Louisiana
- Coals to Newcastle
- (UK) Taking, bringing, or carrying coals to Newcastle is doing something that is completely unnecessary.
- Crossing the Rubicon
- When you are crossing the Rubicon, you are passing a point of no return. After you do this thing, there is no way of turning around. The only way left is forward.
- Cut the Gordian knot
- If someone cuts the Gordian knot, they solve a very complex problem in a simple way.
- Dunkirk spirit
- (UK) Dunkirk spirit is when people pull together to get through a very difficult time.
- From Missouri
- (USA) If someone is from Missouri, then they require clear proof before they will believe something.
- Himalayan blunder
- A Himalayan blunder is a very serious mistake or error.
- Man on the Clapham omnibus
- (UK) The man on the Clapham omnibus is the ordinary person in the street.
- More front than Brighton
- (UK) If you have more front than Brighton, you are very self-confident, possibly excessively so.
- New York minute
- (USA) If something happens in a New York minute, it happens very fast.
- On Carey Street
- (UK) If someone is on Carey Street, they are heavily in debt or have gone bankrupt.
- Road to Damascus
- If someone has a great and sudden change in their ideas or beliefs, then this is a road to Damascus change, after the conversion of Saint Paul to Christianity while heading to Damascus to persecute Christians.
- Rome was not built in a day
- This idiom means that many things cannot be done instantly, and require time and patience.
- Saigon moment
- (USA) A Saigon moment is when people realise that something has gone wrong and that they will lose or fail.
- Send someone to Coventry
- (UK) If you send someone to Coventry, you refuse to talk to them or co-operate with them.
- Shipshape and Bristol fashion
- If things are shipshape and Bristol fashion, they are in perfect working order.
- When in Rome, do as the Romans
- This idiom means that when you are visiting a different place or culture, you should try to follow their customs and practices.
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