Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions

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Daft as a brush
Damp squib
Dancing on someone's grave
Dark horse
Davey Jones' locker
Day in the sun
Daylight robbery
Dead air
Dead and buried
Dead as a dodo
Dead as a doornail
Dead duck
Dead even
Dead from the neck up
Dead heat
Dead heat
Dead in the water
Dead level best
Dead man walking
Dead meat
Dead men's shoes
Dead right
Dead to the world
Dead wrong
Deaf as a post
Dear John letter
Death of a thousand cuts
Death warmed up
Decorate the mahogany
Deep pockets
Deep pockets but short arms
Deer in the headlights
Deliver the goods
Demon weed
Derring-do
Devil finds work for idle hands
Devil is in the detail
Devil may care
Devil's advocate
Diamond in the rough
Die is cast
Different kettle of fish
Different ropes for different folks
Different strokes for different folks
Dig way down deep
Dig your heels in
Dime a dozen
Dine on ashes
Dip your toes in the water
Dirty dog
Discerning eye
Discretion is the better part of valour
Dish the dirt
Do a Devon Loch
Do a Lord Lucan
Do a runner
Do as you would be done by
Do the needful
Do the running
Do their dirty work
Do's and don't's
Dodge the bullet
Dog and pony show
Dog days
Dog eat dog
Dog in the manger
Dog tired
Dog's dinner
Dog's life
Dog-eared
Dog-whistle politics
Doggy bag
Doldrums
Dollars for doughnuts
Don't bite the hand that feeds
Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched
Don't cry over spilt milk
Don't give up the day job
Don't hold your breath
Don't judge a book by the cover
Don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Don't mention the war
Don't push my buttons!
Don't stand there with curlers in your hair
Don't sweat the small stuff
Don't take any wooden nickels
Don't take any wooden nickels
Don't throw bricks when you live in a glass house
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
Don't upset the applecart
Don't wash your dirty laundry in public
Done to death
Donkey's years
Doormat
Dot all the i's and cross all the t's
Double Dutch
Double take
Double whammy
Double-edged sword
Doubting Thomas
Down and out
Down at heel
Down for the count
Down in the doldrums
Down in the dumps
Down in the mouth
Down the drain
Down the hatch
Down the pan
Down the tubes
Down to the wire
Down-to-earth
Drag your feet
Drag your heels
Draw a blank
Draw a line in the sand
Draw a long bow
Draw the line
Draw the shortest straw
Dress someone down
Dress to kill
Dressed to the nines
Drink like a fish
Drive a wedge
Drive home
Drive someone up the wall
Drive you spare
Driven by a motor
Drop a bombshell
Drop a dime
Drop in the bucket
Drop in the ocean
Drop into your lap
Drop like flies
Drop someone a line
Drop the ball
Dropped like a hot cake
Drown your sorrows
Drunk as a lord
Drunker than a peach orchard boar
Dry as a bone
Dry run
Dry spell
Duck soup
Duck to water
Ducks in a row
Dull as ditchwater
Dumb as a rock
Dunkirk spirit
Dutch auction
Dutch courage
Dutch treat
Dutch uncle
Dutch wife
Dwell on the past
Dyed-in-the-wool