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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 117. Chapters: White elephant, Grain of salt, Logrolling, Pork barrel, Bootstrapping, Eye for an eye, Keeping up with the Joneses, Glossary of English language idioms derived from baseball, List of sports idioms, Doing a Leeds, Stalking horse, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Break a leg, Apples and oranges, Tall tale, The Dog in the Manger, Pot calling the kettle black, Eating your own dog food, Sliced bread, Jack of all trades, master of none, Takes two to tango, Catch-22, Misnomer, Up to eleven, Throw out the baby with the bath water, Lion's share, Speak of the devil, Elephant in the room, Shut up, Born in the purple, Foot the bill, List of 19th century English language idioms, Sin City, The real McCoy, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Tired and emotional, Freudian slip, Forbidden fruit, Exception that proves the rule, Pig in a poke, Rest in peace, Trip the light fantastic, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Make a mountain out of a molehill, Taking the piss, Trial of the century, Red-light district, Hobson's choice, Chip on shoulder, Damn with faint praise, Law of the instrument, Cold shoulder, Mind your Ps and Qs, Curiosity killed the cat, Reinventing the wheel, Black sheep, Tongue-in-cheek, Silver spoon, Friday, Silver bullet, The World's second oldest profession, Devil's advocate, Tempest in a teapot, Pea soup fog, Man bites dog, Achilles' heel, Square peg in a round hole, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Back-seat driver, Rags to riches, Flogging a dead horse, Intimate part, Cutty-sark, Eating crow, Tilting at windmills, Toe the line, Sweetness and light, Forty winks, Holy cow, Twiddly bits, A feather in your cap, Send to Coventry, Dark horse, Kick the bucket, Have one's cake and eat it too, Baker's dozen, A wigwam for a goose's bridle, Barking up the wrong tree, Crocodile tears, Blood, toil, tears, and sweat, Too cheap to meter, The Quick and the Dead, Mad as a March hare, Hold your horses, Humble pie, The man on the Clapham omnibus, Mufti, Bob's your uncle, At sixes and sevens, Salad days, Head start, Lessons learned the hard way, My two cents, War chest, The Devil is in the details, A bum steer, Mexican standoff, Cloak and dagger, Catbird seat, To call a spade a spade, As easy as pie, Get a life, Man's best friend, God is in the detail, Hail fellow well met, Jack Robinson, Jumping from the frying pan into the fire, Powder keg, Stiff upper lip, Curate's egg, Morgue file, Cheating death, Nosebleed section, Crime of the century, The lady doth protest too much, methinks., The powers that be, As the crow flies, Live and Let Live, Pearls Before Swine, Elephant test, My bad, Dollars to donuts, Bread and butter, There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, Is the glass half empty or half full?, Straw that broke the camel's back, School of Hard Knocks, Smoke and mirrors, Silver lining, All singing, all dancing, Two-way street, The good doctor, Doing a Cunningham, Apple of one's eye, Nancy Reagan Defense, Stop press, Mum's the word, Rainbow Over Texas, Primrose Path, Out of the blue, Simple matter of software, Cat and mouse, Shop floor, Fatted calf, The Living Daylights, Knee baby, Don't spill the beans, Catch as catch can, Double Whammy, Don't judge a book by its cover, Jump the gun, Hot tip, Go native, Up in arms, Ham it up, Rabble rouser, Second childhood. Excerpt: American English has been enriched by expressions derived from the game of baseball. Sometimes referred to as "America's pastime," baseball has...

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