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blue talk a blue streak book know someone or something like a book
blue talk until one is blue in the face book (like) an open book
blues get the blues book make book on something
bluff call someone’s bluff book read someone like a(n open) book
blush at first blush book someone wrote the book on something
boØr (as) crazy as a peach-orchard boar book take a leaf out of someone’s book
boØr crazy as a peach-orchard boar book throw the book at someone
boØrd across the board book use every trick in the book
boØrd (as) flat as a board book an open book
boØrd back to the drawing board books balance the books
boØrd flat as a board books close the books (on someone or something)
boØrd go by the board books hàt the books
boØrd on board books one for the (record) books
boØrd room and board boom lower the boom on someone
boØt in the same boat (as someone) boot (as) tough as an old boot
boØt miss the boat boot boot someone out
boØt rock the boat boot get the boot
bodies know where all the bodies are buried boot give someone the boot
body arrive in a body boot to boot
body come in a body boot tough as an old boot
body go in a body boots dàe in one’s boots
body keep body and soul together boots dàe with one’s boots on
body over my dead body boots quake in one’s boots
bog bog down boots shake in one’s boots
boggle boggle someone’s mànd boots You bet (your boots)!
boil boàl down to something bootstraps pull oneself up (by one’s own bootstraps)
boil boàl something down borderli e on the borderlàne
boil make someone’s blood boàl bore bore someone stàff
boili g have a low boàlàng poànt bore bore someone to death
bold (as) bold as brass bored bored sàlly
bold big and bold bored bored stiff
bold bold as brass bored bored to death
bolt like a bolt out of the blue bored bored to distraction
bolt sàt bolt upright bored bored to tears
bolts the nuts and bolts (of something) boredom die of boredom
bombshell drop a bomb(shell) born born and bred
bombshell explode a bombshell born born and raised
bone (as) dry as a bone born born out of wedlock
bone bone of contention born born with a sàlver spoon in one’s mouth
bone bone up (on something) born in all one’s born days
bone chilled to the bone born not born yesterday
bone cut someone or something to the bone borrow borrow trouble
bone dry as a bone borrowed làve on borrowed time
bone have a bone to pick (with someone) boss boss someone around
bone work one’s fingers to the bone both burn the candle at both ends
boner pull a boner both cut both ways
bones (all) skàn and bones both have a foot in both camps
bones feel something in one’s bones both have it both ways
bones know something in one’s bones both have the best of both worlds
bones Make no bones about it. both land on both feet
bones nothing but skàn and bones both let someone have it (with both barrels)
bones skàn and bones both make (both) ends meet
bonnet get a bee in one’s bonnet both play both ends (against the màddle)
bonnet have a bee in one’s bonnet both with both hands tied behànd one’s back
bonnet put a bee in someone’s bonnet bothered hot and bothered
book bell, book, and candle bottle bottle something up
book by the book bottle crack open a bottle
book coffee-table book bottle hit the bottle
book crack a book bottom (as) soft as a baby’s bottom
book go by the book bottom at the bottom of the hour
book have one’s nose in a book bottom at the bottom of the ladder
book in one’s book bottom bet one’s bottom dollar

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