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Phrases

The Phrase Finder, by Gary Martin, http://www.phrases.org.uk/
Where did it originate, and what does it really mean? Find the answers here for phrases, sayings and idioms.
On this page: Paddle your own canoe to Put your back up.

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Paddle your own canoe
Paint the town red
Paper tiger
Pass the buck
Pearls before swine
Pears for your heirs
Peeping Tom
Peg out
Pen and ink
Peter out
Physician heal thyself
Pie in the sky
Pig's ear
Pin money
Pipe down
Pipe dream
Piping hot
Plates of meat
Play by ear
Play fast and loose
Play it again Sam
Play the race card
Point to point
Politically correct
Pommy
Pony and trap
Pop goes the weasel
Pork pies
POSH - Port out, starboard home
Pound of flesh
Pour oil on troubled waters
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
Power dressing
Powers that be - The
Praying at the porcelain altar
Press into service
Prick up your ears
Primrose path
Pull out all the stops
Pull the plug
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Punching above his weight
Push the envelope
Put a sock in it
Put a spanner in the works
Put on the wooden overcoat
Put on your thinking cap
Put paid to
Put the wood in the hole
Put your back up
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