M
Madcap: He's a bit of a madcap
Mainbrace: To splice the mainbrace*
Main chance: To have an eye to the main chance
March: To steal a march on someone
Marines: Tell it to the marines
Mark: He doesn't come up to the mark
McCoy: He's the real McCoy:
Mettle: To be on your mettle
Mickey: To take the mickey
Mickey Finn: To give someone a Mickey Finn*
Mockers: To put the mockers on*
Molly coddle
Money: see pin
Monkey: To freeze the balls from a brass monkey
Monty: The Full Monty*
Moon: Over the moon*
Mouth: Mealy mouth
Mud: Here's mud in your eye
His
name is mud
Mum: To keep mum
Murder: Blue murder
Music: Face the music
Mustard: To cut the mustard*
N
Nail: Pay on the nail
To
nail a lie
I'll
nail you for that
Namby-Pamby: He's a namby-pamby
Neck crop: To fall neck and crop
Neck: In my neck of the woods
Nellie: Not on your nellie
Nest: Mare's nest
Nest egg
Newt: Drunk as a newt*
Nick: In the nick of time
Nincompoop:
Ninepence: As right as ninepence
Nines: Dressed to the nines
Nip Tuck: To race nip tuck
Nitty gritty:
Nod: On the nod
Nose: On the nose
To
pay through the nose
It's
no skin off my nose
Notch: Top notch*
Nutshell: In a nutshell*
O
OK:
Oar: To put an oar in
Offing: In the offing
Ointment: A fly in the ointment
Onions: To know your onions*
Ox: My giddy ox
P
Paid: To put paid to
Pack Drill: No names, no pack drill*
Pains: To undertake painstaking research
Paint: To paint the town red
Pale: Beyond the pale
Pan out: I hope it will all pan out
Pan: A flash in the pan
Pander: To pander to someone
Parcel: Part and parcel
Park: To park a car*
Pat: Off pat
Patch: Not a patch on
Pear shaped: To go pear shaped*
Pecker: To keep your pecker up*
Peg: To peg out
To
take down a peg
Pell Mell: to run pell mell
Penny: The penny has dropped
In
for a penny, in for a pound*
Petard: Hoist with his own petard
Peter: To peter out
Phoney:
Pie: It's all pie in the sky
Pig: A pig in a poke
Pigeon: That's not my pigeon
Pikestaff: As plain as a pikestaff
Pillar: From pillar to post
Pillar of the Establishment
Pin: Pin money
Pink: In the pink
Pip: To give someone the pip
Pipe: Pipe down
A
pipe dream
Piping: Food is piping hot
Plain sailing: It's all plain sailing
Play fast and loose:
Plug: To plug a song
Plum: A plum job
Point: To stretch a point
A
sticking point*
Poke: Pig in a poke
Pole: Up the pole
Post: Pillar to post
Pot: Pot luck
Gone
to pot
Potty: To drive someone potty
Ps Qs: To mind one's Ps and Qs
Pup: To be sold a pup. See let the cat out of the bag
Purple: To have a purple patch
