jack; fallen man; family man; fancy man; fantasy man; feel like a new man; fortunate man; foxy man; front man; god-man; godly man; good man; good-time man; green man; gutter man; half a man; half-baked man; handbook man; handy-man; head man; high man on the totem pole; high-up man; honor-man; hot dog man; house man; ice man; inner man; inside man; iron man; kentish man; key man; ladies’ man; landed man; leading man; left-hand man; left-handed man; leg man; liberty man; like a man; little green men; little men; little men with hammers; low man; low man on the totem pole; lucky man; made man; main man; man of men; man’s man; man- to-man; marked man; medical man; medicine man; moon man; natural man; neither man nor mouse; nerv- ous man; new man; night man; odd man; odd man out; old light men; old-clothes man; one’s man; one’s own man; outdoor man; outer man; outside man; party man; pivot man; pivotal man; plain men; plane man; poster man; property man; real men; right-hand man; right-handed man; safety man; sandwich man; senior man; separate the men from the boys; small men; snow man; son of man, the; son of man; sporting man; station man; steel man; stick man; stickup man; straight man; straw man; street man; strong man; strong silent man; strong-arm man; sweet man; swing man; tea man; telephone man; tent-man; to a man; top man; toy man; transit man; trouble man; water-man; well man; well-made man; white man; widow’s man; widow-man; wise man; wise men of gotham; wise men of the east; woman’s man; woman-man; working man; worldly man; yellow man; yes- terday’s man; you’re a good man, charlie brown; young man) mankind (enemy of mankind) manna (hebrew manna) manner (after the manner of someone; in the manner of someone) many (be one too many; good many, a) map (go off the map; put something on the map; wipe something off the map) marble (for all the marbles; have all one’s marbles; lose one’s marbles; pick up one’s marbles) mare (flying mare; gray mare, the) maria (bloody maria) mark (be beside the mark; be off the mark; be wide of the mark; come short of the mark; fall short of the mark; get full marks for something; get full marks in something; make a mark in something; man of mark; overshoot the mark; overstep the mark; press mark; press-mark) market (at the market; bear market; black market; bull market; come into the market; go to market; gray mar- ket; in the market; on the market; soft market) marriage (white marriage) mary (bloody mary) master (house master; one’s own mas- ter; shipping-master; station master) match (comment on a match; com- mentate on a match) mate (ship’s mate) matter (as a matter of course; as a mat- ter of fact; dark matter; fact of the matter is, the; gray matter; what matter; what’s the matter) maximum (at the maximum; to the maximum) meal (make a meal from something; make a meal of something) means (by all means; by any means) meantime (for the meantime; in the meantime) measure (for good measure; in good measure; in large measure; take one’s measures; take someone’s measure) measurement (vital measurements) meat (minced meat; sweet and sour meat; sweet meat) medication (go on medication) medicine (take one’s medicine; take one’s own medicine) mend (be on the mend) mention (don’t mention it; don’t men- tion the war) mercy (left at the mercy of someone; left to the tender mercies of some- one) metal (king of metals; queen’s metal) mickey (take the mickey out of some- one) middle (man in the middle) midland (west midlands) milk (cow in milk; in milk; in the milk; land of milk and honey, the; mouse milk; pigeon milk) million (blue million; cool million) mind (absence of mind; be at the back of one’s mind; be in two minds; be of one mind; be whole of mind; blow someone’s mind; bring one’s mind to something; bring something to mind; cast one’s mind back to something; come to mind; have a good mind; have a mind; have a mind of one’s own; have a mind to do something; have half a mind; have one’s mind on something; have something in mind; have something on one’s mind; in one’s mind; in one’s right mind; in the right mind; keep an open mind; keep one’s mind on something; keep something in mind; know one’s own mind; lose one’s mind; never mind; never you mind; off one’s mind; on one’s mind; one’s mind is set; one’s mind wan- ders; open one’s mind; out of mind; out of one’s mind; presence of mind; prey on someone’s mind; put one’s mind to something; set one’s mind on something; set one’s mind to something; set someone in mind of something; turn one’s mind to some- thing; whole of mind and body) mine (back to the salt mines) minimum (at the minimum; to the minimum) minute (at the last minute; at this minute; for a minute; not for a minute; this minute; to the minute; up to the last minute; up to the minute) mirror (see in a mirror, dimly) mistake (and no mistake; make no mistake about it; there’s no mistake about it; there’s no mistaking) mix (be mixed up; get mixed up with someone) moment (at a moment; at the moment; for a moment; for the moment; in a moment; man of the moment; not for a moment; saigon moment; sput- nik moment) money (bad money; bad money drives out good; black money; blue money; blue one’s money; coin money; dead money; dead on the money; dirt money; dirty money; do one’s money; easy money; for money; for my money; funny money; get a good run for one’s money; good money; hard line money; hard money; have money to burn; have money to spend; have spending money; hot money; in the money; it is not a question of money; lay away money; lay out money; loose money; mad money; make money out of some- thing; make one’s money; not like the color of someone’s money; on the money; out-of-pocket money; pink money; pocket money; put one’s money in something; put one’s money on something; put your money where your mouth is; red money; risk money; see the color of someone’s money; serious money; short money; silly money; smart money; soft money; throw good money after bad; tight for money; tight money; tight with money; white money) monkey (make a monkey of someone) mood (in a black mood; in a mood; in the mood) moon (bark at the moon; cry for the moon; man in the moon; reach for the moon; shoot for the moon; shoot the moon) moonlight (do a moonlight) more (say no more) moses (holy moses) motion (table a motion) mouth (all mouth and no trousers; all mouth and trousers; bad mouth; by Key Word Index – 388 –