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A quick post to just say that I have purchased the Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors and it is FANTASTIC.

Down-daggered - daunted, confused

Eat shorn-bug for dinner - Live in extreme poverty

He's gone to visit his uncle - Has left his wife soon after marriage

Sleep at Mrs. Green's - Spend the night outside, on the grass

Soaped pig style - Vague, intentionally ambiguous

As soon drive a top over a tiled house - Of something derided as impossible