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		<title> Mind your P&#8217;s and Q&#8217;s.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[– Be careful of your alcohol consumption.* Origins: 17th century &#124; It originally came about from English pubs and Taverns. Bartenders would keep a tally of the pints and quarts their patrons were consuming and if they were getting a bit rowdy, remind them to &#8220;watch their p&#8217;s and q&#8217;s.&#8221; It was also the manner [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Down in the dumps.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Unhappy; depressed. Origins: 16th Century &#124; The phrase actually started out as a figure of speech rather than a literal meaning. Surprisingly, Rachel Ray wasn&#8217;t too down in the dumps when her manager told her he booked her as Popeye in an upcoming episode of Sesame Street.]]></description>
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		<title> In like Flynn.</title>
		<link>http://idiominteractive.com/2010/01/%e2%80%9cin-like-flynn-%e2%80%9d-to-be-quickly-andor-emphatically-successful-usually-in-a-sexual-or-romantic-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- to be quickly and/or emphatically successful, usually in a sexual or romantic context Origins: 20th century &#124; First seen as a reference to Austrailian actor Errol Flynn as a reference to his romantic swashbuckler movie roles and his off screen reputation as a hard-drinking, hell-raising ladies&#8217; man. His autobiography was titled My Wicked, Wicked [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Life&#8217;s not all beer and skittles.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- a life of indulgence spent in the pub origins: 19th century &#124; Skittles were actually a precursor to 9 pins and later 10 pin bowling as we know it today. There are examples throughout the mid 1800’s one of the first being from Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers,1837. &#8220;Dammit Johnny, You are going to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Pull out all the stops.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Make every possible effort. origins: 19th century &#124; One popular belief is that it comes from the way pipe organs were constructed. They have stops to control the air flow through the pipes and pulling them out increases the musical volume. This guy pulled out all the stops and surgically implanted cans of SPAM [...]]]></description>
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		<title> A drop in the bucket.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- A very small proportion of the whole. Origins: 17th Century &#124; Actually the first time it appears is in the bible. First printing of the King James Bible, 1611. If you think about it, the $165 million that former AIG CEO Edward Liddy and $100 million that current AIG CEO Robert Benmosche have paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Over the moon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Very happy or delighted Origins: 16th &#8211; 18th century England &#124; Sources include the nursery rhyme High Diddle Diddle in the influential 16th century nursery rhyme collection, Mother Goose&#8217;s Melody; or Sonnets from the Cradle, first printed 1760. NASA was over the moon that the rocket flew&#8230;over&#8230;the&#8230;moon&#8230;. ummmm&#8230;wait, what just happened?]]></description>
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