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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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F is written on his face.
F Sharp
ff
F.E.R.T.
F.O.B.
F's
Fa'
Fabian Society
Fabian Soldiers
Fabian Tactics
Fabianism
Fabila's sad Fate
Fabius
Fables
Fabliaux
Fabricius
Fabulinus
Fabulous Isles
Face
Face to Face
Faces
Face
Faced
Face-card
Facil&eumk; Princeps
Facings
Façon de Parler
Faction
Factor
Factotum
Fad
Fada
Fadda
Fadge
Fadha
Fadladeen'
Faërie
Faërie Queene
Fag
Fagged Out
Fagin
Fagot
Fagot Votes
Fagots
Fahfah
Faids
Faience
Faineant
Faint
Faint Hearted
Fair
Fair City
Fair Game
Fair Maid
Fair-star
Fair Trade
Fair Way
Fair and Square
Fair fall you
Fair Play is a Jewel
Fairies
Fairing
Fairlimb
Fairservice
Fairy
Fairy Darts
Fairy Hillocks
Fairy Ladies
Fairy Land
Fairy Loaves
Fairy Money
Fairy Rings
Fairy Sparks
Fairy of the Mine
Fait Accompli
Faith
Faithful
Fakar
Fake
Fakenham Ghost
Fakir'
Falcon
Falcon Gentle
Falcon Peregrine
Fald-stool
Faldistory
Falernian
Falkland
Fal-lals
Fall
Fall Away
Fall Flat
Fall Foul
Fall From
Fall In
Fall Off
Fall Out
Fall Sick
Fall Through
Fall to
Fall Under
Fall Upon
Fall in With
Fall into a Snare
Fall of Man
Fall of the Drop
Fall Out of
Fall Short of
Fall Together by the Ears
Fall Upon One's Feet
Falling Bands
Falling Sickness
Falling Stars
Fallow Land
False
False Ceiling
Falstaff
Falutin
Familiar
Familiar Spirits
Familiarity
Familists
Family
Fan
Fan-light
Fanatic
Fancy
Fancy-free
Fancy Man
Fancy-sick
Fanesii
Fanfaron
Fanfaronade
Fang
Fangs
Fangled
Fanny Fern
Fantigue
Fantoccini
Fantom-corn
Fantom-fellow
Fantom-flesh
Far and Away
Far Cry from
Far fetched
Far Gone
Far Niente
Farce
Farceur
Farcy
Fare
Fare Well
Farina
Farinata
Farleu
Farm
Farmer George
Farmers
Farnese Bull
Farnese Hercules
Faroese
Farrago
Farringdon Ward
Farthing
Farthingalo
Faryndon Inn
Fascination
Fashion
Fashion of Speech
Fast Girl
Fast Man
Fast and Loose
Fasti
Fasting
Fat
Fat Men
Fat as a Porpoise
Fata
Fata Morgana
Fatal Gifts
Fate
Fates
Father
Father Mathew
Father Neptune
Father Norbert
Father Paul
Father Prout
Father Thames
Father Thoughtful
Father of Waters
Father of his Country
Father of the People
Fathers of the Church
Fathers of the Greek Church
Fathers of the Latin Church
Fathom
Fatima
Fatted Calf
Fatua Mulier
Fault
Faults
Fauna
Faust
Faux-jour
Faux Pas
Favonius
Favours
Favourite
Favourites
Fay
Faye
Fazio
Fear Fortress
Fearless
Feast of Reason
Feasts
Feather
Feather in Your Cap
Feather One's Nest
Feather One's Oar
Feather Stone
Feathers
Feature
February
Fecit
Fecula
Federal States
Fee
Fee-farm-rent
Fee-penny
Fee Simple
Fee-tail
Feeble
Feed of Corn
Feet
Fehm-gericht
Felician
Felix
Felixmarte
Fell
Fellow Commoner
Felo de Se
Feme-covert
Feme-sole
Femme de Chambre
Femynye
Fen Nightingale
Fence Month
Fenchurch Street
Fencible Regiments
Fenella
Fenians
Fennel
Fenrir
Fenton
Feræ Naturæ
Feramorz
Ferdinand
Ferdinando
Ferdosi
Ferguson
Fern
Fern Seed
Fernando Florestan
Ferney
Ferohers
Ferracute
Ferragus
Ferrara
Ferrau
Ferrex and Porrex
Ferumbras
Fescennine Verses
Fess
Fest
Fetch
Fetches
Fetiche
Fetter Lane
Fettle
Feu de Joie
Feud
Feudal
Feudal System
Feuillants
Feuilleton
Fever-Iurdan
Fever-lurk
Fey
Fezon
Fi
Fi. Fa.
Fiacre
Fian
Fiars
Fiasco
Fiat
Fib
Fico
Fiddle
Fiddle About
Fiddle-de-dee!
Fiddle-faddle
Fiddleback
Fiddler
Fiddler's Fare
Fiddler's Green
Fiddler's Money
Fiddler's News
Fiddlestick
Fiddlesticks!
Fidele
Fidelio
Fides
Fides Carbonarii
Field
Field-day
Field Marshal
Field Officer
Field Pieces
Field Works
Field of Ice
Field of Vision
Field of the Cloth of Gold
Field of the Forty Footsteps
Fielding
Fierabras
Fifteen decisive Battles
Fifth-Monarchy Men
Fig
Fig Sunday
Fig-tree
Figs
Figged out
Figaro
Fight
Fight Shy
Fighting-cocks
Fighting Fifth
Fighting Kings
Fighting Prelate
Fighting the Tiger
Fighting with Gloves on
Figure
Figure-head
Figure of Fun
Figures
Filch
File
Filia Dolorosa
Filibuster
Filioque Controversy
Fill-dyke
Fillet
Filomena
Filter
Fin
Finality John
Finance
Finch Lane
Find
Findon Haddocks
Findy
Fine Arts
Fine as Fivepence
Fine-ear
Finetor
Fingal
Fingal's Cave
Finger
Finger and Glove
Finger in the Pie
Finger Benediction
Finger-stall
Fingers
Fingered
Fingle-fangle
Finished to the Finger-nail
Finny Tribe
Finsbury
Fion
Fir-cone
Fir-tree
Fire
Fire Away!
Fire First
Fire-balloon
Fire-brand
Fire-drake
Fire-eaters
Fire-new
Fire-ship
Fire Up
Fire Worship
Fire and Sword
Fire and Water
Firm as a Rock
First-class Hard Labour
First-fruits
First Water
First Gentleman of Europe
First Grenadier of France
First Stroke is Half the Battle
Fish
Fish-day
Fish-wife
Fish and Flesh
Fish in Troubled Water
Fish it Out
Fisher of Souls
Fisherman
Fishing
Fisk
Fitz
Fitz-Fulke
Fitzwilliam Museum
Five
Five-minute Clause
Five Nations
Five Points
Five Wits
Fiver
Fives
Fix
Fixed Air
Fixed Oils
Fixed Stars
Fixt
Flaccus
Flag
Flag, Flags
Flag Lieutenant
Flag-officer
Flag-ship
Flag Signals
Flag's Down
Flag of Distress
Flagellants
Flam
Flamberge
Flamboyant Architecture
Flame
Flaming
Flaming Swords
Flaminian Way
Flanders
Flanders' Babies
Flanders' Mare
Flaneur
Flap-dragons
Flare-up
Flash
Flash Men
Flat
Flat-fish
Flat Milk
Flat Race
Flat Simplicity
Flatterer
Flatterers
Flay a Fox
Flea
Flea-bite
Flea's Jump
Fleance
Fleche
Flecknoe
Fledgeby
Flee the Falcon
Fleeced
Fleet Book Evidence
Fleet Marriages
Fleet Street
Fleet of the Desert
Flemish Account
Flemish School
Flesh and Blood
Flesh-pots
Fleshed
Fleshly School
Fleta
Fleur-de-Luce
Fleurs-de-Lys
Flibbertigibbet
Flic
Flick
Flies
Fling
Fling Herself at my Head
Flins
Flint
Flint Implements
Flint Jack
Flipper
Flirt
Flittermouse
Flo
Floated
Floaters
Floating Academy
Flogging the Dead Horse
Flogged by Deputy
Flood
Floor
Floorer
Flora
Flora's Dial
Florence
Florentine Diamond
Florentius
Florian
Floriani
Florid Architecture
Florida
Florimel
Florimel's Girdle
Florin
Florisando
Florisel of Nice'a
Florismart
Florizel
Flotsam and Jetson
Flower Games
Flower Sermon
Flower of Chivalry
Flower of Kings
Flower of Paradise
Flower of the Levant
Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees with Christian Traditions
Flowers at Funerals
Flowered Robes
Flowing Philosophers
Fluellen
Fluke
Flummery
Flummux
Flummuxed
Flunkey
Flur
Flush
Flush of Money
Flute
Flutter
Flutter the Dovecotes
Fly
Fly-boy
Fly a Kite
Fly-by-night
Fly in One's Face
Fly in the Face of Danger
Fly in the Face of Providence
Fly Open
Fly Out at
Flying Colours
Flying Dutchman
Flying without Wings
Flyman's Plot
Fog-eater
Fogie
Fo-hi
Foil
Folio
Folk
Folk Fairies
Folk-lore
Folk-mote
Follets
Follow
Follower
Folly
Fond
Fons et Origo
Font
Fontarabia
Food
Food for Powder
Foods and Wines
Fool
Fool Thinks
Fool in his Sleeve
Fool or Physician at Forty
Fools
Fool's Bolt
Fool's Paradise
Foolscap
Foot
Foot-breadth
Foot-lights
Foot Monsters
Foot-notes
Foot-pound
Foot of a Page
Footing
Footman's Wand
Footmen
Fop's Alley
Foppington
Forbears
Forbës
Forbidden Fruit
Foreible Feeble School
Ford
Fordelis
Fore
Fore-and-Aft
Forecastle
Foreclose
Fore-shortened
Forfar
Forget-me-nots of the Angels
Forgive, blest Shade
Forgiveness
Fork Out
Forks
Forked Cap
Forlorn Hope
Forlot
Forma Pauperis
Fortiter in Re
Fortunate Islands
Fortunatus
Fortune
Fortunio
Forty
Forty Stripes save One
Forty Thieves
Forty Winks
Forty-five
Forwards
Foscari
Foss
Foss-way
Fossa et Furca
Fossils
Foster
Fou Drunk
Foul Proof
Foul-weather Jack
Fountain of Death
Fountain of Youth
Four Kings
Four Letters
Four Masters
Fourierism
Fourierists
Fourteen
Fourteen Hundred
Fourth Estate of the Realm
Fourth of July
Fowler
Fox
Fox-fire
Fox-tail
Fox's Sleep
Foxed
Foxglove
Foxites
Foxy
Fra Diavolo
Fracassus
Fradubio
Frame of Mind
France
Francesca
Francesca da Rimini
Francis's Distemper
Franciscans
Frangipani
Frangipani Pudding
Frank
Frank Pledge
Frankeleynes Tale
Frankenstein
Frankforters
Franklin
Frankum's Night
Frantic
Fraserian
Fraserian Group
Frater
Frateretto
Fratery
Fraticellians
Fre'a
Free
Free Bench
Free Coup
Free Lances
Free Lances of Life
Free Spirit
Free Trade
Freebooter
Freeman
Freeman of Bucks
Freeman's Quay
Freemasons
Freeport
Freestone
Freethinker
Freezing-point
Freischütz
Freki and Geri
French Cream
French Leave
French of Stratford atte Bowe
Frenchman
Fresco-painting
Freshman
Freston
Frey
Freyja
Friar
Friar Bungay
Friar Dominic
Friar Gerund
Friar John
Friar Laurence
Friar Rush
Friar Tuck
Friar's Heel
Friar's Lanthorn
Friars
Friars Major
Friars Minor
Friar's Tale
Fribble
Friday
Friday Street
Friend
Friend at Court
Friend in Need
Friend of Man
Friends ... Enemies
Friendly Suit
Friendship
Friendships Broken
Frigga
Frilingi
Fringe
Frippery
Frisket
Frith
Frithiof
Frithiof's Sword
Fritz
Frog
Frog's March
Frogs
Frollo
Fronde
Frondeur
Frontino
Frost
Frost Saints
Froth
Froude's Cat
Frozen Music
Frozen Words
Frumentius
Fry.
Frying-pan
Fub
Fuchs
Fudge
Fudge Family
Fuel
Fuga ad Salices
Fuggers
Fugleman
Fulhams
Full Cry
Full Dress
Full Fig
Full Swing
Fulsome
Fum
Fum the Fourth
Fumage
Fume
Fun
Fund
Funds
Funeral
Funeral Banquet
Funeral Games
Fungoso
Funk
Funny Bone
Furbelow
Furca
Furcam et Flagellum
Furies
Furies of the Guillotine
Furor
Fusberta
Fusiliers
Fuss
Fustian
Fustian Words
Futile
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