C
Cake: To take the cake
Can: To carry the can
Candle*: He's not fit to hold a candle to him.
The
game is not worth the candle.
To
sell by the candle.
To
hold a candle to the Devil.
Cap: A feather in your cap
Carpet: To carpet someone
To
give someone the red carpet*
Cart: To be in the cart
To
upset the apple cart
Cat: Not enough room to swing a cat
To
let the cat out of the bag
Catch: Catch 22
Chalk: By a long chalk
Changes: To ring the changes
Cheap: Cheap at half the price*
Cheerio:
Cheese: Cheesed off
Chestnut: That's an old chestnut
Chew: To chew the fat/rag*
Chips: You've had your chips
ChockaBlock
Choke: To choke someone off
Chop: To Chop and Change
Clap: To clap ones eyes on
Clapped: Clapped out
Clappers: To go like the clappers*
Clink: To be sent to clink
Cloud nine: To be on cloud nine
Coals: To haul over the coals
Cobblers: What a load of cobblers
Cockles: To warm the cockles of your heart
Cock up:
Cock: see Bull
Cock: To be cockahoop
Codswallop: What a load of codswallop
Coil: Shuffle off this mortal coil
Cold: To have cold feet
Colours: To come through with flying colours*
Column: To dodge the column*
Comb: To go through something with a fine tooth comb*
Cook: To cook the books.*
To
cook someone's goose*
Copper bottomed: A copper bottomed guarantee
Corker: What a corker
Cotton:
To cotton on
Course: In due course
Coventry: Sent to Coventry
Cox: Box and Cox
Creek: Up the creek
Cropper: To come a cropper
Cross: Criss-cross
Crows: Stone the crows*
Cuckoo: Cloud cuckoo land
Cuff: To speak off the cuff
Curry: To curry favour
Cut: To cut and run
To
cut no ice
To
cut to the quick
Cut out: To have your work cut out*
D
Dab: To be a dab hand*
Dam: A Tinker's dam
Dampers: To put the dampers on something
Dander: To get your dander up
Deadline: To work to a deadline
Degree: see Third degree*
Dekko:
Devil: The devil take the hindmost
The
devil to pay
Between
the devil and the deep blue sea
Go
to the Devil
Dicey: It's a bit dicey*
Dickens: There will be the dickens to pay
Die: The die is cast
Straight
as a die
Dodge: See Column
Dog: Dog days
The
hair of the dog
Top
dog
A
dog in a manger:
To
see a man about a dog
Dogs: He's gone to the dogs*
Dogsbody:
Doolally:
Doornail: As dead as a doornail
Dot: On the dot
Double: To do at the double
Dozen: Nineteen to the dozen
Drum: To drum up support
Duck: A lame duck
Dutch: e.g. "Dutch courage", "Dutch treat"
Dyed: e.g., A dyed in the wool Tory
