Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions

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Nail in the coffin
Nail-biter
Nature abhors a vacuum
Neck and neck
Neck of the woods
Need no introduction
Needle in a haystack
Neither fish nor fowl
Neither here nor there
Neither use nor ornament
Nerves of steel
Nest egg
Never a rose without the prick
Never darken my door again
New blood
New brush sweeps clean
New kid on the block
New lease of life
New man
New sheriff in town
New York minute
Newfangled
Nice as pie
Nick of time
Nickel tour
Night owl
Ninth circle of hell
Nip and tuck
Nip at the bit
Nip it in the bud
Nitty gritty
No bed of roses
No can do
No go
No good deed goes unpunished
No great shakes
No harm, no foul
No holds barred
No ifs or buts
No laughing matter
No love lost
No pain, no gain
No quarter
No question
No questions asked
No skin off my nose
No smoke without fire
No spine
No spring chicken
No strings attached
No time for
No time like the present
No time to lose
No use to man or beast
Nod's as good as a wink
Noddy work
None so blind as those who will not see
None so blind as those who will not see
Nose in the air
Nosy parker
Not a snowball's chance in hell
Not all there
Not bat an eye
Not born yesterday
Not cricket
Not enough room to swing a cat
Not give a monkey's
Not have the heart
Not have two pennies to rub together
Not know beans about
Not know you are born
Not much cop
Not my cup of tea
Not on my watch
Not our bag
Not the only pebble on the beach
Not to be sneezed at
Not wash
Not worth a red cent
Not worth a tinker's dam
Notch on your belt
Nothing to crow about
Nothing to write home about
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Now and then
Null and void
Number cruncher
Nuts and bolts
Nutty as a fruitcake