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Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: Appendix A

Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination
Appendix A

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table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. The Beginnings of Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination
  4. 2. “Shouldering the Wheel” in Bleak House
  5. 3. “Brought Up by Hand”
  6. 4. Sweat Work and Nose Grinding in Our Mutual Friend
  7. Conclusion
  8. Appendix A
  9. Appendix B
  10. Appendix C
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index

APPENDIX A

List of 100 Commonly Used Idioms [*Without Dickens’s Unique Idioms]

  1. Afoot
  2. Arm in arm
  3. At arm’s length
  4. At hand
  5. At the hands of
  6. At the foot of
  7. At her/his heels
  8. Bad blood
  9. Behind-hand
  10. Black in the face
  11. Break his/her heart
  12. Broken-hearted
  13. Body and mind
  14. By heart
  15. Clean hands
  16. Cold blooded
  17. Cold shoulder
  18. Deaf ear
  19. Down at heel
  20. Ear for
  21. Eye for
  22. Eyes for
  23. Eyes wide open
  24. Face to face
  25. Fingers to the bone
  26. Flesh and blood
  27. Footing
  28. From ear to ear
  29. From head to foot
  30. From his/her/your lips
  31. From limb to limb
  32. From mouth to mouth
  33. Full in the face
  34. Hair-breadth
  35. Hair’s-breadth
  36. Half a mind
  37. Hand in hand
  38. Hard-hearted
  39. Hat in hand
  40. Head and ears
  41. Head for detail
  42. Head-first
  43. Head over ears
  44. Head to foot
  45. Headlong
  46. Heart of hearts
  47. Heart’s content
  48. Heart and soul
  49. Heavy hand
  50. Her/his tongue
  51. Hold your tongue
  52. In the flesh
  53. In the same breath
  54. Knee-deep
  55. Light-hearted
  56. Might and main
  57. Mind and matter
  58. Neck and crop
  59. Neck and heels
  60. No eye(s) for
  61. Off-hand
  62. On her/his heel
  63. On her/his lips
  64. On my lips
  65. On her/his mind
  66. On this head
  67. On that head
  68. On tiptoe
  69. One bone and one flesh
  70. Out at elbows
  71. Out of hand
  72. Out of joint
  73. Peace of mind
  74. Presence of mind
  75. Same breath
  76. Set foot
  77. Sharp eye
  78. Sharp-eyed
  79. Single-handed
  80. Single-handedly
  81. Skin and bone
  82. Slip of the tongue
  83. State of mind
  84. Teeth on edge
  85. The same mind
  86. Ties of blood
  87. Time out of mind
  88. To the bone
  89. Took to their heels
  90. Tooth and nail
  91. Top to toe
  92. Touched to the quick
  93. Of two minds
  94. Under foot
  95. Under her/his breath
  96. Upon his/her heel
  97. Upon this/that head
  98. With open arms
  99. Without heart
  100. Word of mouth

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