ing you; one will have it; one won’t have it; thanks for having me) hawk (between hawk and buzzard) hay (between hay and grass; make hay of something; make hay while the sun shines) hazard (at hazard; on the hazard) head (be in over one’s head; be over someone’s head; be soft in the head; be weak in the head; bed head; beef head; bring something to a head; come into someone’s head; come to a head; dead head; death’s head; do something standing on one’s head; eat one’s head off; eat someone’s head off; from head to foot; get it into one’s head; get it through one’s head; get one’s head around some- thing; get one’s head together; give someone a head; give someone a head start; give someone his head; go head to head; go over someone’s head; go to someone’s head; hang over someone’s head; have a good head; have a hard head; have a head; have a head for something; have a head on one’s shoulders; have a strong head; have a swelled head; have a thick head; have one’s head screwed on backwards; head to head; hide one’s head; hide one’s head in the sand; hold one’s head down; hold one’s head up; hold something over someone’s head; in one’s head; keep one’s head; keep one’s head above water; keep one’s head down; keep one’s head up; keep something in one’s head; king charles’s head; knock heads together; knock some- one on the head; knock someone’s head off; long head; lose one’s head; negro head; nigger head; off one’s head; off the top of one’s head; out of one’s head; out of one’s own head; put heads together; put one’s head down; run head to head; short head; shouting head; sleepy head; stand on one’s head doing something; swell- head; take it into one’s head; talking head; thick-head; turn heads; turn someone’s head; turn something on its head; water-head; wind in the head; windmills in the head; wrong in the head) heart (at the heart of something; eat one’s heart out; eat your heart out; give heart to someone; give one’s heart to someone; have a heart; have no heart for something; in the heart of something; know by heart; know in one’s heart; lose heart; lose one’s heart; not have the heart; one’s heart is cold; purple heart; purple hearts; put one’s heart into something; set one’s heart on something; take heart at something; take something to heart; warm someone’s heart) heat (at a heat; dead heat; deadly heat; have a heat on; in a dead heat; in heat; in the heat of the moment; put the heat on someone; take the heat for something; take the heat off something; turn the heat on some- one) heaven (be in heaven; blue heavens; drop from heaven; in heaven; manna from heaven; son of heaven, the; under heaven) heavily (walk heavily) heavy (walk heavy) heel (cool one’s heels; dig one’s heels in; kick one’s heels; kick up one’s heels; set someone back on his heels; tread on someone’s heels) hell (as hell; cold as hell; cold winter in hell; come hell or high water; come through hell and high water; go to hell; go to hell in a handbasket; like hell) hen (mad as a wet hen) here (down here; neither here not there) herring (thick as herrings; thin as a herring) hide (neither hide nor hair) high (be on a high; fly high; look high and low; ride high; ride high in the saddle; run high; speak high) highly (speak highly; talk highly) hill (go over the hill; go over the hills and far away; head for the hills; over the hill) hint (drop a hint; give a hint) history (be ancient history; be history; become history; do history; go down in history; life history; make history) hit (make a hit with someone) hog (go the whole hog; ride high on the hog) hold (get hold of someone; have hold of someone; lose hold of someone; lose hold over someone; take hold of someone) holder (key-holder) hole (black hole; black hole of calcutta; dig a hole for oneself; in a hole; in the hole; toad in a hole; toad in the hole; water hole; watering hole) holiday (half-holiday; half-term holi- day) home (at home; attached home; be from a broken home; be too close to home; boarding home; come home; come home to roost; come short home; community home; dog’s home; eat someone out of house and home; go home; go in a home; hit close to home; hit home; make a home; mobile home; motor home; nurses’ home; nursing home; play away from home; public home; remand home; rest home; welcome home; welcome home husband, however drunk you be) homework (do one’s homework) honey (sweet as honey) honor (do someone honor; do the hon- ors; lady of honor; maid of honor; man of honor; military honors) hook (get one’s hooks into someone; get oneself off the hook; get someone off the hook; get the hook; go off the hooks; go on the hook; let someone off the hook; off the hook; off the hooks; on one’s own hook; on the hook) hop (be on the hop; catch someone on the hop; go on the hop) horn (draw in one’s horns; pull in one’s horns) horror (get the dry horrors; get the horrors) horse (be on a high horse; be on the horse; beat a dead horse; bet on the wrong horse; dark horse; devil’s horse; flog a dead horse; flying horse; flying sea-horse; get off one’s high horse; get on one’s high horse; get on one’s horse; heard it from the horse’s mouth; iron horse; job-horse; play the horses; ride a white horse; ride the high horse; ride the white horse; river-horse; sea-horse; white horse; work for a dead horse; work horse; work off the dead horse) hostess (tea hostess) hot (bit hot, a; blow hot and cold; feel hot; get hot; get hot and bothered; get hot under the collar; get it hot; get the hots for someone; give it hot to someone; go hot and cold; hot and hot; make it hot for someone; make someone hot; not feel so hot; not too hot; red hots; too hot to handle) hour (all hours; at all hours; at any hour; bad hours; by the hour; coffee hour; good hour; happy hour; keep bad hours; keep good hours; on the half hour; on the hour; out of hours; question of the hour; short hours; small hours; take one’s hour; zero hour) house (big house; break into a house; bring the house down; cat house; country house; dead house; death house; do a house; do up a house; dog-house; eat someone out of house and home; father of the house, the; garden house; get on like a house on fire; gin house; go like a house on fire; go round the houses; green house; ice house; keep a house; keep house; keep open house; little house; live in a glass house; low house; lower house; make a house; man of the house; mansion house; master of one’s own house; master of the house; on the house; open house; orchard house; planetary house; public house; pull the house down; rest house; semi-detached house; set up house; shout the house down; state house; state house; town house; warm house; warming house; wash- house; water house; watering house; – 385 – Key Word Index