day; not a day over; off day; on one’s day; one day; one fine day; one hasn’t got all day for someone; one of these days; one of these fine days; one of those days; order of the day; rain day; rainy day; some day; that will be the day; these days; those were the days; time of day; to the day; to this day; well day; work day; zero day) dead (be dead in the water; be dead on arrival; be dead set on something; catch someone dead; charlie’s dead; cut someone dead; drop dead; half dead; knock oneself dead; knock someone dead; living dead; look half dead; more dead than alive; queen ann’s dead; you are a dead man; you are a long time dead) deal (big deal, a; big deal; great deal, a; make a deal with someone) dear (cost someone dear) death (be death on someone; be the death of someone; beaten to death; catch one’s death; hand of death; like death; like grim death; meet one’s death; to death; to the death) decision (judicial decision; judicious decision) deck (flight deck; flying deck; on deck; on the deck; on the decks; twin- deck) deep (be too deep for someone; skin- deep) deer (run like a deer) degree (honorary degree; honors degree; third degree; third-class degree; to the nth degree) delusion (be under the delusion) demand (in demand; on demand) demonstration (for demonstration; to demonstration) department (fire department) depth (at the depth of something; in depth; in the depth of something; out of one’s depth) devil (be the very devil; blue devil; blue devils; dust devil; pull the devil by the tail) dialect (eye dialect) dictionary (swallow the dictionary) difficulty (make difficulties; present difficulties) digger (gold digger) dime (drop a dime) dinner (dog’s dinner; duck’s dinner) dip (skinny dip) direct (contact someone direct) directly (contact someone directly) dirt (eat a peck of dirt; eat dirt; hit pay dirt; hit the dirt) dirty (do the dirties with someone; do the dirty on someone) disease (green monkey disease; heart disease; mediterranean disease; panama disease; yellow stripe dis- ease) disguise (in the disguise of someone; under the disguise of someone) dish (do the dishes; make the dishes) disorder (in disorder) distance (at a distance; go the full dis- tance; in the distance) ditch (die in a ditch; die in the last ditch) dive (do a deep dive; take a dive; take a nose-dive) do (be used to doing something; have someone do something; have some- one doing something; it doesn’t do; it’s not done; make a do of it; make do with something; need doing; need to do; that will do; that will never do; used to do something; what else can i do; what else can i do for you) dock (in dock; in the dock) doctor (family doctor; just what the doctor ordered) doe (john doe) dog (be like a dog with two tails; between dog and wolf; big dog; big grey dog; dirty dog; done like a dog’s dinner; done up like a dog’s dinner; every dog has its day; gone to the dogs; hot dog; if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas; sausage dog; sea dog; short dog; teach an old dog new tricks; wake sleeping dogs; water dog; work like a dog) doghouse (in the doghouse) dollar (bottom dollar; top dollar) donkey (play donkey; play donkey- drop) door (bang on the door; bang the door; close the barn door after the horse gets out; close the door on someone; close the door to someone; roses round the door; show someone the door; show someone to the door; your barn door is open) dot (off one’s dot; on the dot; to the dot) dove (peace dove; peaceful dove) down (be down for something; be down to something; have a down on someone; up and down; ups and downs; way down something) dozen (dime a dozen, a; ten to the dozen) draft (at a draft; feel a draft; feel the draft; on draft) drag (be a drag on someone; have drag with someone) draw (beat someone to the draw) drawer (bottom drawer; top drawer) drawing-board (back to the drawing- board) dream (in one’s dream; like a dream; like in a dream) dress (all dressed up; evening dress; night dress) dresser (kitchen dresser) drink (big drink; big drink of water; hard drink; in drink; in the drink; long drink; on the drink; straight drink) drinking (hard drinking; straight drinking) drive (test drive) drop (back drop; have a drop; have a drop too much; have the drop; name-dropping; penny drops, the; take a drop) dry (cut and dried; go dry; hang some- one out to dry; high and dry; home and dry; run dry) duck (get a duck; lame duck; shoot ahead of the duck; shoot the sitting duck; swim like a duck) duckling (ugly duckling) dump (in a dump) dumps (in the dumps) dusk (at dusk; in the dusk) dust (devil’s dust; hit the dust; make a dust; make the dust fly; raise dust; raise the dust; wait for the dust to settle) dutch (be in dutch with someone; do the dutch; go dutch with someone; talk double dutch) dutchman (flying dutchman, the) duty (call of duty; do duty; do one’s duty; on active duty; on duty) eagle (vulturine eagle; when the eagle flies) ear (be wet behind the ears; bend the ear of someone; bend the ear to someone; come out of someone’s ears; crash about someone’s ears; dog’s ear; fall about someone’s ears; fall on someone’s ears; give ear to something; give someone a thick ear; give someone one’s ear; go in one ear and out the other; have an ear for music; have an ear for something; have the ear of someone; have van gogh’s ear for music; lower one’s ears; on one’s ear; out on one’s ear; pig’s ear; pin back one’s ears; pin back someone’s ears; play by ear; play it by ear; prick up one’s ears; reach the ear of someone) earth (bring someone down to earth; burn the earth; come down to earth; down to earth; end of the earth; go to earth; like nothing on earth; peo- ple of the earth; scorch the earth; take earth) ease (stand at ease) easy (come easy to someone; go easy on someone; let someone down easy; stand easy) eater (crow eater; meat eater) edge (at the cutting edge of something; have the edge over someone; on edge; on the cutting edge of some- thing; on the edge; on the edge of one’s seat; on the knife-edge of something; on the razor’s edge of something) editor (city editor) eel (catch an eel by the tail; hold an eel by the tail) effect (for effect; for good effect; have – 381 – Key Word Index