T
T: To fit to a "T"
Tab: To run (up) a tab*
Tables: To turn the tables on
Tacks: Brass tacks
Tar: To spoil a ship for a ha'porth of tar
Tears: Crocodile tears
Teeth: By the skin of your teeth
Tell off: see Tick*
Tenterhooks: On tenterhooks
Thick: As thick as thieves
Third degree: To be given the third degree*
Thread: To thread one's way
Thumb: A rule of thumb*
Thunder: To steal someone's thunder
Tick: To have something on tick
Tick
off: To tick off someone*
Ticket: That's the ticket
Time: A high old time
Tip Top: To be in tip top condition*
Tinker: To give a tinker's dam (or cuss)
Toady: He's a toady
Toast: To drink a toast
Tod: To be on your tod*
Tom: Tom fool or foolery
Tommy rot: That's a load of tommy rot
Tongs: Going at something hammer and tongs
Top: To sleep like a top*
Touch: It was touch go
Out of touch
Traces:
To kick over the traces
Truck: To have no truck with
Truth: The naked truth
Turkey: To talk turkey
Twig: To twig on to something
V
V sign:
W
Wall: To go to the wall
Washout: It's a washout
Weasel: Pop goes the weasel
Weather: Under the weather
West: To go west
Wheeling: Wheeling and dealing
Whipping boy: To be a whipping boy
Whistle: As clean as a whistle
To
blow the whistle on someone
You
can whistle for it
Wig: A big wig
Wild goose: A wild goose chase
Wire: Down to the wire*
Wonder: A nine day wonder
Wool: To pull the wool over the eyes*
To
be wool gathering*
Y
Yarn: To spin a yarn*
Years: Donkey's years
