an effect upon something; of no effect; speak without effect; to no effect) egg (bad egg; get a goose egg; go lay an egg; goose that lays the golden eggs; have egg on one’s chin; have egg on one’s face; lay an egg; like ham and eggs; put all one’s eggs in one basket; rotten egg; russian easter egg; russian egg) element (exposed to the elements; out of one’s element) elephant (kill an elephant; like an ele- phant in the room; pink elephant; see a pink elephant; see the elephant; white elephant) eleven (seven come eleven; seven eleven) else (something else) empire (holy roman empire, the; roman empire, the) employment (in employment; in the employment) end (at an end; at the end; at the end of something; be at loose ends; come to a bad end; come to a dead end; dead end; end for end; end to end; from end to end; from land’s end to john o’ groat’s; go in at the deep end; go off at the deep end; go to the end of the land; in the end; in the end of something; land’s end; land’s end, the; living end, the; make an end of something; make both ends meet; not know which end is up; on end; on the end; put an end to something; that’s the end of it; that’s the end of the ball game; that’s the end of the line; thick end of the stick, the; thin end of the wedge, the; tie up loose ends; world without end; world’s end) enemy (public enemy) england (achilles of england, the; close your eyes and think of england; little england; little england beyond wales; new england; new england of the west, the; primate of all england; primate of england; shut your eyes and think of england) englander (little englander) english (austral english; australian english; basic english; basic english; body english; break the queen’s english; clip the king’s english; clip the queen’s english; early english; modern english; new english; old english; speak english; speak in english; talk english; talk in english) enough (close enough for government work; close enough for jazz) envelope (on the back of an envelope) escape (there is no escape from some- thing; 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spine-tingling experience) extreme (go from one extreme to the other; go to extremes; in extremes; in the extreme; to extremes) eye (all eyes; all my eye; black eye; as far as the eye can see; bright in the eye; catch someone’s eye; catch the eye; close one’s eyes; do someone in the eye; give an eye to someone; give someone a black eye; give someone the big eye; give someone the evil eye; give someone the eye; have an eye for something; have an eye on something; have an eye out for someone; have an eye out for some- thing; have eyes for someone; have eyes in the back of one’s head; have one eye on something; hit someone in the eye; hit the eye; in one’s eyes; in the blinking of an eye; in the public eye; keep one’s eyes open; look at someone with big eyes; make someone open his eyes; make some- one open his eyes wide; one’s eyes are bigger than his stomach; private eye; public eye; raise one’s eyes; see green in someone’s eye; see eye to eye; see something with half an eye; shut one’s eyes; strike the eye; to one’s eyes; turn a blind eye to some- thing; with a single eye to some- thing; with an eye for something; with an eye to something; with half an eye on something; with one eye closed; with one eye on something; with one’s eyes closed; with one’s eyes open; with one’s eyes wide open; with wide-open eyes; without blinking an eye) eyeball (be eyeball to eyeball; get an eyeball on someone) eyeroll (give someone the eyeroll) face (do faces; face to face; have a face as long as a fiddle; have a face made of a fiddle; have the face; have two faces; in the face of it; in the face of something; keep a straight face; keep one’s face; look someone in the face; lose face; lose one’s face; make a face; make face; make faces; on the face of it; on the face of something; pull a face; pull a long face; put one’s best face on; put one’s face on; save one’s face; show a face; show one’s face; stare someone in the face; till one is blue in the face) fact (in fact) faint (feel faint at something; feel faint from something) faith (in faith; in good faith) fall (leaf fall; take a fall; take the fall) fallout (have a fallout) family (happy families; happy family; man of family) fancy (take a fancy to someone; take the fancy of someone) far (as far; as far as; as far as one can see; so far; so far as) farm (buy the farm; give away the farm; sell the farm) fashion (in a fashion; in fashion; in the fashion) fat (chew the fat; live off the fat of the land) father (god the father; house father) favor (in favor of someone; in favor with someone) fear (for fear of something; have no fear for something; have no fear of something; in fear of something; never fear; no fear) feast (skeleton at the feast, a) feather (make the feathers fly; show the white feather) feed (chicken feed; off one’s feed; on the feed) feel (have a feel for something; have a feel on the pulse of something; have the feel of something) feeling (have a feeling about some- thing; have a feeling for something; relieve one’s feelings) fellow (odd fellow; odd fellow) fence (jump over the fence; over the fence; sit on the fence; stone fence) fever (mediterranean fever; panama fever; red fever; red light fever; scar- let fever) few (chosen few; good few, a; quite a few) fiddle (be on the fiddle; fine as a fiddle; hang up one’s fiddle; hang up one’s fiddle at the door) field (cover the field; hold the field; in the field; keep the field; leave some- one a clear field; leave someone the Key Word Index 382 –