camp (break camp; break out of camp; fly camp; flying camp) campaign (seven days’ campaign, the) camper (tent camper) can (be canned; be in the can; one can but; one can do worse than; one can’t be bothered; one can’t help one- self; one cannot but; one cannot do better than; one could care less; one could do with something; one couldn’t care less; one couldn’t do with something; open up a can of whoop-ass; you can say that again; you can talk; you can’t fight city hall; you can’t have it both ways; you can’t talk; you can’t win; you can’t win ‘em all; you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs; you cannot make bricks without straw) canary (blue canary; sing like a canary) candle (burn the candle at both ends; hold a candle for someone; hold a candle to someone) candy (be eye candy) canoe (paddle one’s own canoe) cap (black cap; red cap; white cap) capital (make capital out of something; risk capital) car (breakdown car; broken-down car; dining car; electric car; electric motor car; motor car; park one’s car; patrol car; rail car; railroad car; street legal car; touring car; tourist car) card (cool card; cooling card; credit card; mark one’s cards; mark some- one’s cards; money card; off the cards; out of the cards; payment card; show one’s cards) care (take care of someone; take care of something; take care to do some- thing; take someone into care; take someone into one’s care) carpet (be on the carpet; call someone on the carpet; come on the carpet; pull the carpet from under someone; roll out the red carpet for someone; step off the carpet) cart (in the cart) case (be a case in point; be the case; closed case; in case of something; in the case of something; it’s a case; make a case for something; make a federal case out of something; make it a federal case; make out a case for something; on someone’s case; on the case; open-and-shut case; this is not the case) cash (cold cash; hard cash; lay cash on the barrelhead; lay cash on the line; petty cash; put cash on the barrel- head; put cash on the line; small cash) cat (be under the cat’s paw; between you and me and the cat’s whiskers; cat’s whisker; cat’s whiskers; cat’s paw copy-cat; dead-cat bounce; enough to make a cat laugh; enough to make a cat speak; has your cat died; let the cat out of the bag; like a cat on hot bricks; like a scalded cat; like a singed cat; make a cat’s paw of someone; put the cat among the pigeons; see how the cat jumps; set the cat among the pigeons; shoot the cat; skin a cat; skin the cat; that cat won’t jump; weak as a cat; whip one’s weight in wild cats; whip the cat) catch (get caught doing something; get caught up on something) ceiling (glass ceiling; go through the ceiling; stained-glass ceiling) cent (per cent; per cents; put one’s two cents in; red cent) center (community center; remand center) certificate (general certificate of educa- tion; general certificate of secondary education chair (get the chair; put someone into the chair; send someone to the chair; take a chair; take the chair) chalk (walk one’s chalks; walk the chalk) challenge (bring something into chal- lenge; lay challenge to something) chamber (death chamber; gun cham- ber) chamberlain (lord chamberlain; lord great chamberlain) chance (by any chance; by chance; have a fat chance; have a slim chance; on the chance; on the off chance) change (give someone short change; give someone small change; go through changes; go through the changes; short change; small change) chapel (father of the chapel) character (be quite the character) charge (in charge; in charge of some- one; in charge of something; in the charge of someone; on charge; on charge of something; put someone in charge; put someone on a charge; take charge of someone; take some- one in charge) charity (live in charity; live on charity) charles (king charles) charlie (right charlie) chart (go off the chart) check (blank check; cross a check) cheese (chew the cheese; say cheese) cherry (red as cherries) chest (get something off one’s chest) chick (feed the chicks) chicken (count one’s chickens; feed the chicken; not count one’s chickens before they are hatched) chief (doctor, lawyer, or indian chief; there are too many chiefs; too many chiefs and not enough indians) child (god’s child; gutter child; man- child; natural child; only child, an; only child, the; sick child; sickly child; with child; women and chil- dren first) chill (put the chill on someone) chin (keep one’s chin up china (from china to peru) chip (call in one’s chips; cash in one’s chips; when the chips are down) choice (by choice; hobson’s choice; of choice; sophie’s choice) chop (pork chop) christ (babe in christ; before christ) christian (wise as a christian) church (father-in-church; go into the church; go to church) cicero (british cicero, the; german cic- ero, the) cigar (close but no cigar) circle (go full circle; go round in cir- cles; run around in circles; run cir- cles around someone; run someone round in circles) citizen (natural citizen; naturalized cit- izen; senior citizen) city (go into the city; gotham city) claim (make a claim for something; make a claim to something) clap (at a clap; in a clap) class (high class; third class; upper class) claw (draw in one’s claws; pull in one’s claws) clean (sweep something clean) clear (be clear about something; be in the clear over something; in clear; in the clear; stand clear of something; sweep clear for something; sweep clear of something) clerk (ship’s clerk; shipping clerk) clock (beat the clock; by the clock; clean someone’s clock; flog the clock; floral clock; kill the clock; like a clock; like one o’clock; on the clock; one’s biological clock is ticking; run like a clock; run out the clock; sleep round the clock; sleep through the clock; stop one’s clock; stop some- one’s clock; stop the clock; watch the clock) closet (come out of the closet) cloth (cotton cloth; cottony cloth; cut from the same cloth; cut out of whole cloth; man of the cloth) clothes (long clothes) clothing (seasonable clothing; seasonal clothing) cloud (be in the clouds; be on cloud seven; drop from the clouds; every cloud has a silver lining; on cloud nine; under a cloud) clown (make a clown of oneself ) club (be in the club; join the club) coachhorse (devil’s coachhorse) coal (carry coals; carry coals to newcas- tle; rake over old coals; rake someone over the coals) coat (blue coats; fur coat; fur-lined coat) cock (be the cock in the henhouse) cocker (according to cocker) coffee (wake up and smell the coffee) coffin (nail in the coffin) – 379 – Key Word Index