Tip-top, 234
Tit-bit, 45
Tit for tat, 63
Tom, Dick, and Harry, 223
Too many cooks spoil broth, 209
Too much of a good thing, 146
Topsy-turvy, 94, 211
Travellers tell fine tales, 160
Trespassers will be prosecuted, 92
Tricks, to be at one’s old, 116
Truth stranger than fiction, 234
Truth will out, 147, 230
Turn in all standing, 81
Turn over new leaf, 182
Turn to play, 27
Two can play at that game, 146
Two heads better than one, 26
Two of a trade, 163
Two’s company, 95
U
Up to date, 124
Up to-day, down to-morrow, 58
V
Vengeance, to rain with a, 18
_Verbum sap._, 26, 108, 165
Very man, the, 118
W
Watched pot never boils, 94
Water off duck’s back, 89
Water one’s wine, to, 232
Weakest go to the wall, 34
Week of Sundays, 211
Well begun is half done, 75
Well, I never! 192
Wet blanket, 147
Wet to the skin, 215
What a to-do, 6
What cannot be cured, 82
What is done cannot be undone, 203
What is one man’s meat, 170
When at Rome do as Rome does, 152
When Greeks joined Greeks, 125
When in doubt, 101
When thieves fall out, 234
When world was young, 219
Where there’s a will, 124, 234
While there’s life, 219
Whip-hand, 32, 47
Whistling woman, 120
White elephant, 105
Wholesale and retail, 138
Whole show, 47
Who lives longest sees most, 232
Wild horses would not make him speak, 223
Wilful waste makes woeful want, 93
Will is as good as deed, 145, 234
Willy-nilly, 137
Wind and weather permitting, 219
Wishes were horses, if, 212, 215
Wish is father to thought, 88
Woman’s instinct, 120
Word to the wise, a, 26, 108, 209
Work like a nigger, 198
Workman blames tools, a bad, 175
Worst come to worst, 12
Worst wheel makes most noise, 50
Worth his weight in gold, 184
Worth a brass farthing, not, 92
Wrong end of stick, 16
Y
Yellow as a guinea, 145
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