Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions

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Rack and ruin
Rack your brain
Rack your brain
Ragged blue line
Rags to riches
Rain on your parade
Raining cats and dogs
Rainy day
Raise Cain
Raise eyebrows
Rake over old coals
Rake someone over the coals
Rank and file
Rat race
Rather you than me
Raw deal
Read from the same page
Read someone the riot act
Real deal
Real McCoy
Real plum
Real trooper
Rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic
Recharge your batteries
Recipe for disaster
Red carpet
Red herring
Red letter day
Red light district
Red mist
Red rag to a bull
Red tape
Reds under the bed
Reduce to ashes
Reinvent the wheel
Renaissance man
Rest is gravy
Rest on your laurels
Revenge is sweet
Rewrite history
Rhyme or reason
Rice missionary
Rich as Croesus
Rich man's family
Ride for a fall
Ride high
Ride roughshod
Ride shotgun
Ride with the tide
Right as rain
Right out of the blocks
Right royal
Right up my alley
Right up your street
Ring a bell
Ringside seat
Rip van Winkle
Rise and shine
Rise from the ashes
Road to Damascus
Rob Peter to pay Paul
Rock the boat
Rocket science
Roll out the red carpet
Roll with the punches
Roll your eyes
Rolling in the aisles
Rome was not built in a day
Root hog or die poor
Rooted to the spot
Rose-colored glasses
Rose-tinted glasses
Rough and ready
Rough around the edges
Rough diamond
Rough edges
Rough end of the stick
Rough-hewn
Round the bend
Round the houses
Rub shoulders
Rub someone up the wrong way
Rudderless ship
Ruffle a few feathers
Rule of thumb
Rule the roost
Run a mile
Run amok
Run around the bush
Run before you can walk
Run circles around someone
Run into the sand
Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes
Run off your feet
Run out of gas
Run rings around someone
Run something into the ground
Run the gauntlet
Run the show
Run to ground
Run your mouth off
Run-of-the-mill
Running on empty
Running on fumes
Runs in the family
Russian roulette
Rusty needle