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“Appendix A” in “Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination”
APPENDIX A
List of 100 Commonly Used Idioms [*Without Dickens’s Unique Idioms]
- Afoot
- Arm in arm
- At arm’s length
- At hand
- At the hands of
- At the foot of
- At her/his heels
- Bad blood
- Behind-hand
- Black in the face
- Break his/her heart
- Broken-hearted
- Body and mind
- By heart
- Clean hands
- Cold blooded
- Cold shoulder
- Deaf ear
- Down at heel
- Ear for
- Eye for
- Eyes for
- Eyes wide open
- Face to face
- Fingers to the bone
- Flesh and blood
- Footing
- From ear to ear
- From head to foot
- From his/her/your lips
- From limb to limb
- From mouth to mouth
- Full in the face
- Hair-breadth
- Hair’s-breadth
- Half a mind
- Hand in hand
- Hard-hearted
- Hat in hand
- Head and ears
- Head for detail
- Head-first
- Head over ears
- Head to foot
- Headlong
- Heart of hearts
- Heart’s content
- Heart and soul
- Heavy hand
- Her/his tongue
- Hold your tongue
- In the flesh
- In the same breath
- Knee-deep
- Light-hearted
- Might and main
- Mind and matter
- Neck and crop
- Neck and heels
- No eye(s) for
- Off-hand
- On her/his heel
- On her/his lips
- On my lips
- On her/his mind
- On this head
- On that head
- On tiptoe
- One bone and one flesh
- Out at elbows
- Out of hand
- Out of joint
- Peace of mind
- Presence of mind
- Same breath
- Set foot
- Sharp eye
- Sharp-eyed
- Single-handed
- Single-handedly
- Skin and bone
- Slip of the tongue
- State of mind
- Teeth on edge
- The same mind
- Ties of blood
- Time out of mind
- To the bone
- Took to their heels
- Tooth and nail
- Top to toe
- Touched to the quick
- Of two minds
- Under foot
- Under her/his breath
- Upon his/her heel
- Upon this/that head
- With open arms
- Without heart
- Word of mouth
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