E
Ear: Made a pig's ear out of
Earmark: To earmark something
Ears: Wet behind the ears
Eavesdropping:
Eight: One over the eight*
Egg: To egg on
A
curate's egg
Eggs: As sure as eggs is eggs
Elephant: A white elephant
End: To keep your end up*
Ends: At loose ends
To
make (both) ends meet
Eyes: To keep your eyes peeled*
Eyewash: It's a load of eyewash
F
Fagged out: To be fagged out*
Fall: To fall foul of
Feather: see Cap
Fed up: To be fed up*
Fettle: In fine fettle
Fiddle: On the fiddle
Fit
as a fiddle*
Fiddlesticks: It's all fiddlesticks
Field day: To have a field day*
Fig: I don't give fig
Finger: To pull your finger out*
Fired: To be fired*
First rate:
Fish: A pretty kettle of fish
Fits: To go by fits and starts
Flat out: To go flat out
Flea: To be sent off with a flea in the ear*
Fly: To fly in the face of
Fob: To fob off someone
Fogey: An old fogey
Foot: To foot the bill*
Footing: On a good footing
Fork: To fork out
Forty winks: To take 40 winks*
Foul:
see Fall
Frog: To have a frog in the throat
G
Gab: The gift of the gab
Gaff: To blow the gaff
Gammy: To have a gammy leg
Gamut: To go the whole gamut
Gauntlet: To run the gauntlet
George: By George
Gerrymander:
Gibberish:
Gingerbread: Take the gilt off the gingerbread
Gingerly: To go gingerly*
Gist: To get the gist of
Goat: To get your goat
Gooseberry: To play gooseberry
Gooseberry
bush
Goose: To cook someone's goose*
Grandfather: Grandfather clock
Grapes: Sour grapes
Grapevine: To hear something on the grapevine
Grass: To grass on someone
Greenhorn: To be a greenhorn*
Gubbins: A load of gubbins
Gum: He's up a gum tree
Gun: Son of a gun
