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L
- The lamps are going out
- Lather, rinse, repeat
- Lest we forget
- Let them eat cake
- Let there be light
- Let's roll
- Letter and spirit of the law
- Letting the cat out of the bag
- Lies, damned lies, and statistics
- Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
- Line in the sand
- Lion's share
- Lipstick on a pig
- Live, Laugh, Love
- London streets are paved with gold
- Long hundred
- Long time no see
- The longest suicide note in history
- Love means never having to say you're sorry
- The love that dare not speak its name
M
- Mackerel snapper
- Mad as a hatter
- Man on the Clapham omnibus
- Marketplace of ideas
- Marking your own homework
- May the Force be with you
- Mazel tov
- Meanwhile, back at the ranch
- The medium is the message
- Members only
- Memory hole
- Mexican standoff
- Mind over matter
- Mind the gap
- Mind your own business
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Missing Me
- Mission creep
- Money and the ethnic vote
- Black Week
- More Irish than the Irish themselves
- More popular than Jesus
- A moron in a hurry
- Mortal wound
- Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx
- Mumbo jumbo (phrase)
- Mush from the Wimp
- Mutual assured destruction
- My body, my choice
- My Oga at the top
- My postillion has been struck by lightning
N
- Namby-pamby
- Nappy Valley
- Nattering nabobs of negativism
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Nek minnit
- Never was so much owed by so many to so few
- Nevertheless, she persisted
- Nigger in the woodpile
- NO CARRIER
- No pain, no gain
- No problem
- No soap radio
- No such thing as a free lunch
- No such thing as a stupid question
- No worries
- No-go area
- Not even wrong
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels
- 'Nuff said! (quote)
O
P
- Pardon my French
- Party piece
- Peace for our time
- Pear-shaped
- People mover
- The personal is political
- Plastic Brit
- Plastic Paddy
- Playing doctor
- Ploughman's lunch
- Poisoning the well
- Political suicide
- Popular beat combo
- Power behind the throne
- The powers that be
- Preacher's kid
- Pro-choice and pro-life
- Proof by intimidation
- A Protestant parliament for a Protestant people
- Psychic numbing
- Pub test
- Public enemy
- Pushing on a string
R
S
- Said the actress to the bishop
- Sakes alive
- Salad bowl (cultural idea)
- Salmon Arm Salute
- Sands of time (idiom)
- Season's Greetings
- Semmelweis reflex
- Send 'er down, Huey!
- Separated at birth
- Seven-year itch (idiom)
- Sexed up
- Shank's mare
- Ship of fools
- Shit happens
- Shiver my timbers
- Shock and awe
- Shopping while black
- Short, sharp shock
- Shot heard round the world
- The show must go on
- Shrimp on the barbie
- Shuckin' and jivin'
- Sifting and winnowing
- Signal strength and readability report
- Silent treatment
- Six hungry families
- Slow Your Roll
- Smoking gun
- Sophomore slump
- Spiritual but not religious
- Stalingrad legal defense
- Stapp's ironical paradox
- Stay the course
- Stick to sports
- Stinking badges
- Stop Snitchin'
- Suffer fools gladly
- Surprise, Surprise
- Survival of the fittest
- Swamp Yankee
- Swampland in Florida
T
- Talking past each other
- Tally-ho
- Tastes like chicken
- Tautophrase
- Teach fish how to swim
- Teachable moment
- Teachers Only
- Terminological inexactitude
- The terrorists have won
- Thank you
- That's all there is, there isn't any more
- Their name liveth for evermore
- There's a sucker born every minute
- They shall not pass
- They think it's all over
- Thinking man's/woman's crumpet
- This machine kills fascists
- This too shall pass
- This was their finest hour
- Three Bs
- Throw under the bus
- Thy name is
- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
- Tired and emotional
- To be announced
- To hell in a handbasket
- To the nines
- Tom, Dick and Harry
- Tory scum
- Tough love
- Toward a more perfect union
- Town and gown