Idiom Index H

 

habit
	break a habit
	force of habit
	kick a habit
	shake a habit
hackhacker
	hack/hacker
had
	been had
	had a bellyful
	had a belt
	had a couple
	had a few
	had better
	had enough
	had his bell rung
	had it
	had it up to here
	had the bird
	so small you had to back out to change your mind
	you had to be there
hahing
	hemming and hahing
hail
	hail a cab
hail-fellow-well-met
	hail-fellow-well-met
hair
	a little hair off the dog
	by the short hairs
	curl your hair
	get in your hair
	get out of your hair
	got you by the short hairs
	hair off the dog that bit you
	hair stand on end
	haven't seen hide nor hair
	hide nor hair
	in your hair
	keep your hair on
	kiss curls (hair style)
	make your hair stand on end
	out of my hair
	see hide nor hair
	split hairs
	without turning a hair
hairbrain
	hairbrain
hairdo
	hairdo
hairy
	big hairy deal
hale
	hale and hearty
half
	all over hell's half acre
	better half
	don't know the half of it
	half the battle
	have half a mind to
	hell's half acre [B]
	meet you half way
	not half bad
	six of one, half a dozen of the other
half-assed
	half-assed [B]
half-bad
	ain't half-bad
	half-bad
half-baked
	half-baked
half-cocked
	go off half-cocked
	half-cocked
half-corked
	half-corked
half-cut
	half-cut
half-hearted
	half-hearted
half-lit
	half-lit
half-pint
	half-pint
half-shot
	half-shot
half-snapped
	half-snapped
half-there
	half-there
halt
	grind to a halt
	grinding halt
ham
	ham
	ham hands
	ham it up
	play the ham
hammer
	a sack of hammers
	as dumb as a sack of hammers
	dumb as a sack of hammers
	hammer and tongs
	put the hammer down
	sack of hammers
hammered
	hammered
hancock
	John Hancock
hand
	a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
	a firm hand
	a free hand
	a helping hand
	a hot hand
	an old hand at
	at the hands of
	bite the hand that feeds you
	can't put my hands on it
	cement hands
	change hands
	crawl on my hands and knees over broken glass just to see her photo
	don't hand me that
	eat out of the palm of your hand
	firm hand
	first hand
	from hand to mouth
	give me a hand
	give them a hand
	good hands
	got my hands full
	ham hands
	hand down
	hand in
	hand in hand
	hand me down
	hand out
	hand over
	hand over fist
	hand to mouth
	hand you a line
	hands are tied
	hands down
	hands on
	hands up
	hat in hand
	have it in hand
	have things in hand
	have to hand it to you
	helping hand
	hold your hand
	hot hand
	in good hands
	in hand
	know like the back of your hand
	lend a hand
	out of hand
	out of our hands
	play into his hand
	raise your hand against
	reject out of hand
	shake hands
	talk to the hand
	the devil makes work for idle hands
	the upper hand
	time on your hands
	tip your hand
	try your hand at
	upper hand
	wait on you hand and foot
	wash your hands of it
handbasket
	go to hell in a handbasket
	hell in a handbasket
handed
	high handed
handful
	a handful
	handful
handle
	fly off the handle
	get a handle on
	handle herself
	sometimes life is a bucket of shit and the handle is inside [B]
	too hot to handle
handout
	a handout
	handout
handwriting
	the handwriting is on the wall
hang
	get the hang of
	give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
	hang around
	hang in there
	hang loose
	hang on
	hang on every word
	hang on like grim death
	hang out
	hang ten (surfing)
	hang tough
	hang you out to dry
	hang your hat
	if you're born to hang, you won't drown
	let it all hang out
hang-up
	hang-up
hanging
	leave me hanging
hangover
	hangover
hanky-panky
	hanky-panky
happy
	happy as a box of birds
	happy as a clam/lark
	happy as a peacock
	happy as a pig in shit [B]
	happy camper
	happy hour
	happy motoring
hard
	a hard day
	a hard row to hoe
	a hard time
	between a rock and a hard place
	cold, hard cash
	come down hard
	die hard
	do it the hard way
	drive a hard bargain
	give you a hard time
	hard as nails
	hard at it
	hard copy
	hard day
	hard done by
	hard feelings
	hard line
	hard liquor
	hard nosed
	hard of hearing
	hard on me
	hard pressed
	hard put
	hard row to hoe
	hard sell
	hard skill
	hard stuff
	hard times
	hard to believe
	hard to get
	hard to swallow
	hard to take
	hard up
	no hard feelings
	play hard to get
	put in a hard day
	school of hard knocks
	the hard way
	the school of hard knocks
	times were hard
hard-on
	a hard-on [B]
	hard-on [B]
hardball
	play hardball
harder
	the bigger they are the harder they fall
hardware
	hardware
harm
	out of harm's way
harum-scarum
	harum-scarum
has
	every cloud has a silver lining
	has a mind of his own
	has the cat got your...
	has the makings
	it has your name on it
	rumor has it
has-been
	has-been
hash
	hash it over
hassle
	a hassle
	hassle
	hassle me
hasty
	beat a hasty retreat
hat
	all hat and no cattle
	at the drop of a hat
	hang your hat
	hat in hand
	hat trick
	hats off
	old hat
	take my hat off to
	talk through your hat
	tip of the hat
hatch
	count your chickens before they hatch
	don't count your chickens before they hatch
	down the hatch
hatchet
	bury the hatchet
	hatchet man
hatshirt
	eat my hat/shirt
hatter
	mad as a hatter
	mad hatter
haul
	haul ass [B]
	haul up on the carpet
	in the long haul
haunt
	come back to haunt you
have
	as luck would have it
	better to have loved...
	can't have it both ways
	didn't have a stitch of clothes on
	do unto others as you would have them do unto you
	don't have a cow
	have a ball
	have a bird
	have a bite
	have a blast
	have a boo
	have a case of
	have a chair
	have a clue
	have a conniption
	have a crush on
	have a cow
	have a drag
	have a fit
	have a fix
	have a flat
	have a fling
	have a go
	have a good time
	have a heart
	have a hitch in your getalong
	have a laugh
	have a leak [B]
	have a looksee
	have a mind to
	have a puff
	have a say
	have a seat
	have a shot at
	have a sip
	have a smash
	have a soft spot for
	have a whiz
	have a word with you
	have an affair
	have an attack
	have an inkling
	have at me
	have deep pockets
	have designs on
	have fun
	have half a mind to
	have it both ways
	have it coming
	have it in for
	have it in hand
	have it made
	have it out
	have it your way
	have my ears lowered
	have my eye on
	have my work cut out
	have nookie
	have one on me
	have sex
	have the balls [B]
	have the final say
	have the floor
	have the makings of
	have things in hand
	have to
	have to go
	have to go some
	have to hand it to you
	have what it takes
	have you for breakfast
	have you over
	have your cake and eat it, too
	have your period [B]
	haven't got a hope
	haven't got a hope in hell
	haven't got the stomach for it
	haven't seen hide nor hair
	haven't the foggiest
	it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
	let me have it
	let you have it
	price you have to pay
	the price you have to pay
	the room is so small you have to go outside turn around
	you have to be good to be lucky
having
	time flies when you're having fun
havoc
	havoc strikes
	play havoc with
	wreak havoc
hawk
	hawk
	like a hawk
	like a mother hawk
	watch me like a hawk
	watch over like a mother hawk
hay
	a roll in the hay [B]
	hit the hay
	make hay while the sun shines
	roll in the hay
	what the hay
haywire
	go haywire
	haywire
	something is haywire
hazard
	hazard a guess
he'll
	give him an inch and he'll take a mile
	give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
head
	a good head
	a head start
	beat your head against a stone wall
	come to a head
	cooler heads prevailed
	fall head over heels
	funny in the head
	get up a head of steam
	get your head out of the clouds
	get your head together
	give head [B]
	go to your head
	good head
	got rocks in your head
	grinning like a bushel basketful of possum heads
	head (headbanger)
	head
	head and shoulders
	head down there
	head honcho
	head in the clouds
	head in the sand
	head is spinning
	head on
	head out
	head over heels
	head up
	head up there
	heads or tails
	heads will roll
	hit the nail on the head
	hold that over my head
	in over your head
	keep your head
	keep your head above water
	laugh your head off
	let it go to your head
	lose your head
	make your head spin
	off the top of my head
	out of my head
	over my head
	rocks in your head
	scratch your head
	sleepy head
	soft in the head
	swelled head
	take my head off
	talk your head off
	touched in the head
	tube head
	two heads are better than one
headbanger
	head (headbanger)
headhunter
	headhunter
headmind
	clear your head/mind
headway
	make headway
health
	a clean bill of health
	clean bill of health
	health nut
	the picture of health
hear
	hear me out
	so quiet you can hear a pin drop
hearing
	hard of hearing
heart
	absence makes the heart grow fonder
	at heart
	best interests at heart
	bleeding heart
	break your heart
	by heart
	change of heart
	cross my heart and hope to die
	cry her heart out
	eat your heart out
	faint of heart
	from the bottom of my heart
	have a heart
	heart is in the right place
	heavy heart
	out of the goodness of my heart
	play on my heart strings
	pluck at the heart strings
	put your heart into it
	sick at heart
	steal your heart
	take heart
	take it to heart
	the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
	to heart
	wear your heart on your sleeve
	win the hearts
	with all my heart
	young at heart
hearty
	hale and hearty
heat
	a dead heat
	dead heat
	heat is on
	if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
	put the heat on
	take the heat
	the heat is on
heaven
	for heaven's sake
	heaven forbid
	heaven help us
	heavens
	heavens to Betsy
	in heaven's name
	in seventh heaven
	thank heavens
	what in the name of heaven
heavy
	a heavy day
	a heavy hitter
	heavy
	heavy day
	heavy duty
	heavy foot
	heavy going
	heavy heart
	heavy hitter
	heavy metal types
	play the heavy
heavyweight
	a heavyweight
heck
	heck
	what the heck
hedge
	hedge your bets
heel
	Achilles heel
	cool your heels
	dig in their heels
	fall head over heels
	head over heels
	hot on your heels
	kick up your heels
	on the heels
heeled
	well heeled
hell
	a hell of a time
	a snowball's chance in hell
	all hell broke loose
	all over hell's half acre
	catch hell [B]
	come hell or high water
	get hell [B]
	give you hell [B]
	go to hell [B]
	go to hell in a handbasket
	haven't got a hope in hell
	hell bent for election
	hell in a handbasket
	hell of a time
	hell to pay [B]
	hell's bells
	hell's half acre [B]
	like a bat out of hell
	like hell [B]
	one hell of a time
	raise hell [B]
	road to hell is paved...
	sure as hell
	the hell you say
	the road to hell is paved with good intentions
	till hell freezes over
	to hell and gone
	to hell with that [B]
	what the hell [B]
hellish
	hellish [B]
help
	beyond help
	can help it
	can't help
	heaven help us
	help out
	help yourself
	so help me
	the Lord helps those who help themselves
helping
	a helping hand
	helping hand
hemming
	hemming and hahing
hen
	as scarce as hen's teeth
	scarce as hen's teeth
henry
	John Henry
her
	a bee in her bonnet
	at the top of her game
	ball her [B]
	bat her eyes
	chat her up
	crawl on my hands and knees over broken glass just to see her photo
	cry her heart out
	fill her up
	get her way
	get into her pants [B]
	give her
	give her credit
	give her shit [B]
	give her the eye
	hold her liquor
	in her good graces
	let her rip
	pedal her ass [B]
	put her there
	set in her ways
	wouldn't say shit if her mouth was full of it [B]
hercules
	pocket Hercules
herd
	ride herd
here
	buck stops here
	get your buns over here
	had it up to here
	here's mud in your eye
	here's to
	out of here (outa here)
	same here
	the buck stops here
herhim
	drop her/him
	dump her/him
hero
	unsung hero
herring
	red herring
herself
	full of herself
	handle herself
hesitates
	he who hesitates is lost
hex
	put a hex on me
hey
	hey
heyday
	heyday
hi
	a fool and his money are soon parted
	a man's home is his castle
	a shadow of his former self
	all his marbles
	apple of his eye
	at the top of his voice
	bark is worse than his bite
	born with a silver spoon in his mouth
	butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
	call his bluff
	caught with his pants down
	chip on his shoulder
	deked out of his jock
	down on his luck
	each to his own
	feeling his oats
	fill his shoes
	fool and his money...
	give him a taste of his own medicine
	give you the shirt off his back
	God rest his soul
	had his bell rung
	has a mind of his own
	hi
	hi there
	his nibs
	his own man
	His Royal Highness
	horse shoes up his ass [B]
	in his blood
	in his good books
	knock the wind out of his sails
	mind of his own
	on his last legs
	on his tail
	out of his element
	play into his hand
	put him in his place
	quake in his boots
	rest his soul (God rest his soul)
	ride his coattails
	sing his praises
	step on his dick
	tail between his legs
	taste of his own...
	that's his bible
	the apple of his eye
	the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
	to each his own
	too big for his britches
	under his own steam
	with his tail between his legs
	wrap around his finger
hick
	hick
hidden
	hidden agenda
	hidden talent
hide
	haven't seen hide nor hair
	hide nor hair
	see hide nor hair
	you can run but you can't hide
high
	blow sky high
	come down off your high horse
	come hell or high water
	eat high off the hog
	get high
	get off your high horse
	high
	high and mighty
	high five
	high handed
	high hopes
	high on the hog
	high roller
	high strung
	high time
	hit the high notes
	knee high to a grasshopper
	look high and low
	natural high
	off your high horse
	riding high
	say jump...how high
high-hat
	high-hat
highball
	highball it
higher
	higher than a kite
highfalutin
	highfalutin
highly
	speak highly of
highness
	His Royal Highness
hightail
	hightail it
hike
	take a hike
hill
	a hill of beans
	hill of beans
	make a mountain out of a mole hill
	over the hill
	run for the hills
	what the Sam Hill
hilt
	loaded to the hilt
him
	chew him out
	cut him off [B]
	deck him
	ditch him
	don't know him from Adam
	drop him like a hot potato
	get him back
	give him a taste of his own medicine
	give him an inch and he'll take a mile
	give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
	give him the brush-off
	give him the evil eye
	give him the slip
	give it to him
	got him covered
	lose him
	low-ball him
	nail him
	pay him back
	pin down/pin him down
	praise him to the skies
	put him in his place
	send him flying
	send him up
	shake him
	start a fire under him
	take him down a peg
	take him out
	tell him a thing or two
	tell him off
	tell him where to get off
	tell him where to go
	throw yourself at him
	tube him
	you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
himself
	give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
hind
	suck the hind tit [B]
hint
	drop a hint
	give me a hint
hip
	hip
	hip hop (generation)
	shoot from the hip
hire
	hire on
history
	history
	the rest is history
hit
	a hit
	hit
	hit and miss
	hit and run (baseball)
	hit and run (traffic)
	hit home
	hit it off
	hit man
	hit me (card games)
	hit me
	hit me for a loan
	hit me with your best shot
	hit my funny bone
	hit on
	hit on all cylinders
	hit paydirt
	hit rock bottom
	hit speeds of
	hit the bar
	hit the books
	hit the bottle
	hit the brakes
	hit the bricks
	hit the ceiling
	hit the ground running
	hit the hay
	hit the high notes
	hit the nail on the head
	hit the road/trail
	hit the skids
	hit the spot
	hit town
	shit hit the fan [B]
	the fat hit the fire
	the shit hit the fan
	where the rubber hits the road
hitch
	have a hitch in your getalong
	hitch in your getalong
	without a hitch
hitter
	a clutch hitter (baseball)
	a heavy hitter
	clutch hitter (baseball)
	heavy hitter
ho
	gung ho
hobnob
	hobnob
hobson
	Hobson's choice
hock
	in hock
	into hock
	out of hock
hockey
	a suicide pass (hockey)
	boarding (hockey)
	bump and grind (hockey)
	chairman of the boards (hockey)
	cherrypicker (hockey)
	clotheslined (hockey)
	drop your gloves (hockey)
	feather a pass (hockey)
	give up the blueline (hockey)
	kill a penalty (hockey)
	offside (hockey)
	power play (hockey)
	pull the goalie (hockey)
	sin bin (hockey)
	the sin bin (hockey)
	tonsil hockey
hoe
	a hard row to hoe
	a tough row to hoe
	hard row to hoe
	tough row to hoe
hog
	eat high off the hog
	go hog wild
	high on the hog
	whole hog
hogwash
	hogwash
hoity-toity
	hoity-toity
hokey
	hokey Dinah
hold
	can't hold a candle
	don't hold your breath
	get a hold of
	hold a candle
	hold a grudge
	hold a meeting
	hold down
	hold forth
	hold her liquor
	hold it
	hold me responsible
	hold on
	hold out for
	hold that over my head
	hold the fort
	hold the phone
	hold the purse strings
	hold up
	hold water
	hold you up
	hold your drinks
	hold your hand
	hold your horses
	hold your mouth the right way
	hold your nose
	hold your own
	hold your temper
	hold your tongue
	how you hold your...
	no holds barred
	the way you hold your mouth
	way you hold your...
hold-out
	hold-out
holding
	holding the bag
	leave you holding the bag
	left holding the bag
hole
	ace in the hole
	burn a hole in your pocket
	don't know your ass from a hole in the ground [B]
	hole in one (golf)
	hole up
	in the hole
	pick holes in
	shuck on down to the fraidy hole
	two pee holes in the snow
	watering hole
holidays
	spend holidays
hollow
	a hollow leg
	hollow leg
holy
	a holy pile
	holy cow
	holy Moses
	holy pile
	holy smoke
	holy Toledo
home
	a man's home is his castle
	bring home the bacon
	charity begins at home
	chickens come home to roost
	come home to roost
	down home
	drive it home
	eat you out of house and home
	get home
	hit home
	home free
	home run (baseball)
	home stretch
	make yourself at home
	make yourself to home
	nothing to write home about
	the lights are on but nobody's home
	till the cows come home
honcho
	head honcho
honest
	keep you honest
	to be perfectly honest
honest-to-goodness
	honest-to-goodness
honestly
	honestly
honesty
	honesty is the best policy
honey
	honey
honky
	honky
honor
	do the honors
	scout's honor
	word of honor
hoo-haw
	hoo-haw [B]
hooch
	hooch
hood
	all around Robin Hood's barn
	around Robin Hood's barn
	hood
hook
	by hook or by crook
	hook up with
	hook, line and sinker
	off the hook
	ring off the hook
hooker
	hooker
hooky
	play hooky
hoops
	jump through hoops
hoosegow
	hoosegow
	in the hoosegow
hoot
	a hoot
	give a hoot
	hoot
hop
	bar hop
	hip hop (generation)
	hop up
hope
	cross my heart and hope to die
	get your hopes up
	Great White Hope
	haven't got a hope
	haven't got a hope in hell
	high hopes
	hopes dashed
	pin your hopes on
	The Great White Hope
hopping
	hopping mad
horizon
	clouds on the horizon
	expand your horizons
hork
	hork
horn
	horn in
	pull in your horns
	take the bull by the horns
	toot your own horn
horny
	horny [B]
horse
	a horse of a different color
	a horse's ass [B]
	beat a dead horse
	cart before the horse
	change horses in mid stream
	charley horse
	come down off your high horse
	dark horse
	don't look a gift horse in the mouth
	eat like a horse
	flog a dead horse
	from the horse's mouth
	get off your high horse
	get on your horse
	hold your horses
	horse around
	horse feathers
	horse of a different color
	horse sense
	horse shoes up his ass [B]
	horse's ass [B]
	look up a dead horse's ass [B]
	off your high horse
	piss like a race horse [B]
	straight from the horse's mouth
	straw horse
	the cart before the horse
	you and the horse you rode in on
	you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
horseplay
	horseplay
hose
	hose it down/ hose it off
hoser
	hoser
hot
	a hot hand
	a hot number
	a hot ticket
	a hot topic
	drop him like a hot potato
	got the hots for
	hot
	hot air
	hot and bothered
	hot goods
	hot hand
	hot off the press
	hot on the trail
	hot on your heels
	hot potato
	hot stuff
	hot tempered
	hot ticket
	hot topic
	hot under the collar
	in hot water
	it's cold / it's hot
	like a hot potato
	not so hot
	shit hot [B]
	strike while the iron is hot
	too hot to handle
hotcakes
	sell like hotcakes
hotdog
	a hotdog
	hotdog
hothead
	a hothead
	hothead
hotshot
	a hotshot
	hotshot
hound
	hound
hour
	happy hour
	rush hour
house
	a full house (cards)
	bring the house down
	eat you out of house and home
	nut house
	people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
	poor house
household
	a household name
	household name
how
	and how
	don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs
	how about that
	how are you doing
	how are you fixed for
	how are you getting along
	how are you making out
	how come
	how do you do
	how do you like them apples
	how does that grab you
	how goes it
	how goes the battle
	how it plays out
	how so
	how time flies
	how you hold your...
	how's that again
	how's tricks
	no matter how you slice it
howdy
	howdy
howling
	a howling blizzard
hoyle
	according to Hoyle
huh
	huh
hum
	make your bum hum
humble
	eat humble pie
humdinger
	a humdinger
	humdinger
humongous
	humongous
humor
	sense of humor
	warped sense of humor
hump
	hump day
	over the hump
hundred
	bat five hundred
hung
	well hung [B]
hunger
	from hunger
hungover
	hungover
hungry
	go hungry
	hungry thirties
hunk
	hunk
hunker
	hunker down
hurl
	hurl
hurrah
	last hurrah
hurry
	hurry up
hurt
	hurt my feelings
	what you don't know won't hurt you
hush
	hush up
hushed
	hushed up
hyah
	hyah

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