arrow (straight as an arrow) art (performance art; performing art; work of art) artillery (heavy artillery; light artillery) artist (pavement artist) ashore (run ashore; run ashore, a) ask (don’t ask; don’t ask me) attendant (pump attendant) attention (attract someone’s attention; call someone to attention; call some- one’s attention; draw someone’s attention; pay attention to someone; pay attentions to someone) auction (blind auction; chinese auc- tion; dutch auction) aunt (universal aunt) author (stock author) authority (by the authority of some- one; on the authority of someone) avail (of no avail; to no avail) avoidance (tax avoidance) award (receive an award) away (far and away; out and away) baby (blue-eyed babies; bush baby) back (at one’s back; at the back of something; be a back seat driver; be in the back seat; have one’s back against the wall; not look back; on one’s back; on the back of some- thing; see the back of someone; turn one’s back on someone; way back; when someone’s back is turned) backyard (not in one’s backyard) bacon (bring home the bacon; smoked bacon; smoky bacon) bad (be bad form; be in bad form; be in bad taste; give something up as a bad job; go bad; go to the bad; in a bad way; not half bad; not so bad; taste bad) badger (draw the badger; overdraw one’s badger) badly (go badly) bag (at the bottom of the bag; in the bag; in the bottom of the bag; make a bag; make a bags of something; make the bag) baker (butcher, baker, candlestick maker) balance (in balance; keep one’s bal- ance; keep the balance; on balance) ball (be out of the ball park; bust one’s balls; bust someone’s balls; carry the ball; drop the ball; get the ball roll- ing; gold balls; have a ball; have balls; have the ball at one’s feet; high ball; keep the ball rolling; play ball; play catch-up ball; play the ball; play the ball not the man; set the ball roll- ing; take up the ball; three gold balls) balloon (go down like a lead balloon; when the balloon goes up) band (beat the band; red band; to beat the band; when the band begins to play) bandbox (just out of a bandbox) bandwagon (get on the bandwagon; on the bandwagon) bang (get a good bang for one’s buck; go bang; go with a bang; have a good bang for one’s buck) bank (break into a bank; break the bank; cry all the way to the bank; laugh all the way to the bank) banquet (bridal banquet) bar (belly up to the bar; called to the bar; called within the bar; crush bar; public bar) bargain (more than one bargains for) barrel (at the bottom of the barrel; get to the bottom of the barrel; in the bottom of the barrel; lock, stock and barrel) barrier (crash barrier; crush barrier; pain barrier) base (get to first base; reach first base; touch base) basics (back to basics) bat (off one’s own bat; off the bat) bath (blood bath; take a bath; take an early bath) baton (take up the baton) battle (line of battle; seven days’ battle, the) bay (keep someone at bay) beam (high beam; high beams; off one’s beam; off the beam) bean (be full of beans; give someone beans; not amount to a hill of beans; not have a bean) bear (natural born; not born yesterday; play at bears; play the bear) beat (dead beat; it beats me; it beats my time) beaten (dead beaten) beating (take a beating; take some beating) beauty (sleeping beauty) beaver (work like a beaver) bed (double bed; feather bed; get into bed with someone; go to bed; go to bed in one’s boots; go to bed with one’s boots on; go to bed with some- one; make a bed; make down a bed; make one’s bed; make up a bed; put someone to bed; rose bed; take someone to bed; take to bed; test bed; tester bed; twin bed) bee (busy as a bee; put a bee in some- one’s bonnet; worker bee; working bee) beehive (busy as a beehive) beersheba (from dan to beersheba) beetroot (red as a beetroot) begin (to begin with) beginning (at the beginning) behavior (amoral behavior; childish behavior; childlike behavior; immoral behavior; manly behavior; mannish behavior) behind (way behind) bell (clear as a bell; hang all one’s bells on one horse; hang on the bell; have one’s bell rung; ring a bell; ring alarm bells; ring bells; ring one’s bell; ring one’s own bell; ring someone’s bell; ring the bell; who will ring the bell) belly (go belly up) below (here below; way below some- thing) belt (protective belt; safety belt) bench (back bench, the; on the back bench; on the bench; warm the bench) bend (around the bend; be bent on doing something; go around the bend; go on the bend; go round the bend; round the bend) bent (have a bent for something) best (all the best; at best; at one’s best; be best at something; be the best at something; do best; do one’s best; give of one’s best; give someone best; have the best of it; know best; make the best of it) bet (do you want a bet; you bet) better (all the better; i have seen better; know better; one had better; one’s better self; think better of someone; think better of something) bible (swallow the bible; swear on a stack of bibles; swear on the bible; unrighteous bible, the; wicked bible, the) bidding (blind bidding) big (as big as a barn; as big as all out- doors; as big as life; as big as they come; be too big for one’s boots; go big; make it big; talk big) bike (get off one’s bike; get on one’s bike; on your bike) bill (foot the bill; long bill; top the bill) bird (black bird; blue bird; dead bird; early bird; get the bird; give someone the bird; have a bird; king bird; king of birds; king’s bird; little bird told me, a) birth (at a birth; at birth; at the birth; natural birth) bit (do a bit; do one’s bit; for a bit; for quite a bit; in a bit; in bits; not a bit; two bits; two-bit) bite (flea bite; flea-bitten; have a bite; have bite) black (be written in black and white; in black; in the black; ivory black; put the black on someone; put up a black; see something in black and white; yellow black) blanket (dry blanket; pigs in a blanket; wet blanket) blaze (hotter than blazes) blind (be blind to something) blindfolded (do something blind- folded) block (do one’s block; do the block; off one’s block; off the blocks; on the block; on the blocks; on the chop- ping block) blood (bad blood; be in someone’s blood; fresh blood; in cold blood; make someone’s blood boil; make someone’s blood freeze; make some- one’s blood run cold; man of blood; man of blood and iron; man of blue – 377 – Key Word Index