Baker’s Dozen III

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Phrases and idioms featuring birds

  1. To quit cold turkey
  2. Choking the chicken
  3. Killing two birds with one stone
  4. Follow the buzzards
  5. The chickens have come home to roost
  6. Cat among the pigeons
  7. Wild goose chase
  8. The early bird gets the worm
  9. A little birdie told me
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Phrases and idioms featuring birds

  1. To quit cold turkey
  2. Choking the chicken
  3. Killing two birds with one stone
  4. Follow the buzzards
  5. The chickens have come home to roost
  6. Cat among the pigeons
  7. Wild goose chase
  8. The early bird gets the worm
  9. A little birdie told me
  10. If it walks like a duck …
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Let me see if I’ve got this straight. It’s a made-up catchphrase from a WWE performer.
Well, I suppose it’s a phrase… but I’d hardly call it an idiom.

idiom = a group of words established by usage (emphasis mine) as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

Phrases and idioms featuring birds

  1. To quit cold turkey
  2. Choking the chicken
  3. Killing two birds with one stone
  4. Follow the buzzards
  5. The chickens have come home to roost
  6. Cat among the pigeons
  7. Wild goose chase
  8. The early bird gets the worm
  9. A little birdie told me
  10. If it walks like a duck …
  11. Birds of a feather flock together

-“BB”-

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Phrases and idioms featuring birds

  1. To quit cold turkey
  2. Choking the chicken
  3. Killing two birds with one stone
  4. Follow the buzzards
  5. The chickens have come home to roost
  6. Cat among the pigeons
  7. Wild goose chase
  8. The early bird gets the worm
  9. A little birdie told me
  10. If it walks like a duck …
  11. Birds of a feather flock together
  12. Innocent as a dove
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Phrases and idioms featuring birds

  1. To quit cold turkey
  2. Choking the chicken
  3. Killing two birds with one stone
  4. Follow the buzzards
  5. The chickens have come home to roost
  6. Cat among the pigeons
  7. Wild goose chase
  8. The early bird gets the worm
  9. A little birdie told me
  10. If it walks like a duck …
  11. Birds of a feather flock together
  12. Innocent as a dove
  13. The bluebird of happiness

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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beauty
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beautysi
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk

sometimes also spelled ‘callipygian’

-“BB”-

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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beautysi
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk
  8. Prolix - Drawn-out, excessively long writing or speech; Longwinded, verbose

I have always liked “pulchritude”, and sometimes find a way to work it into conversation. Often in a bad imitation of W.C. Fields :slight_smile:

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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beautysi
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk
  8. Prolix - Drawn-out, excessively long writing or speech; Longwinded, verbose
  9. Bellytimber - a good meal
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beautysi
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk
  8. Prolix - Drawn-out, excessively long writing or speech; Longwinded, verbose
  9. Bellytimber - a good meal
  10. Grandiloquent - pompous sounding language
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beautysi
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk
  8. Prolix - Drawn-out, excessively long writing or speech; Longwinded, verbose
  9. Bellytimber - a good meal
  10. Grandiloquent - pompous sounding language
  11. Knickerbocker - a style of pants worn by men, rolled up to below the knees. Also the original name of the New York City NBA team.
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beautysi
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk
  8. Prolix - Drawn-out, excessively long writing or speech; Longwinded, verbose
  9. Bellytimber - a good meal
  10. Grandiloquent - pompous sounding language
  11. Knickerbocker - a style of pants worn by men, rolled up to below the knees. Also the original name of the New York City NBA team.
  12. Bathycolpian - deep-bosomed, often paired with Callipygean (above)
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Favorite old or obscure words

  1. Absquatulate - Pre-Civil War mock-Latinate word meaning “leave in a hurry”
  2. Crapulous - meaning “eating or drinking to excess.”
  3. Bootless - useless, in Shakespeare: “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
  4. Fribble - a frivolous or foolish person
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification - The act of estimating as worthless
  6. Pulchritude - Beauty
  7. Callipygean – of or having to do with the badonkadonk
  8. Prolix - Drawn-out, excessively long writing or speech; Longwinded, verbose
  9. Bellytimber - a good meal
  10. Grandiloquent - pompous sounding language
  11. Knickerbocker - a style of pants worn by men, rolled up to below the knees. Also the original name of the New York City NBA team.
  12. Bathycolpian - deep-bosomed, often paired with Callipygean (above)
  13. Snoutfair - good-looking (dates back to the 1500s)

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Famous Israelis (Post-1900 CE)

  1. Moshe Dayan
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Famous Israelis (Post-1900 CE)

  1. Moshe Dayan
  2. Golda Meir