Threadneedle St Flashcards
(28 cards)
as black as Newgate’s knocker
As black as Hades
To be born within the sounds of Bow Bells
Cockney
The kings life is drawing peacefully to a close.
Lord Dawson, 1936.
To be fiddling while Rome burns
To occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis
Grinning like a Cheshire Cat
Well
Khyber pass
Arse 1986 Carry On
To consign to Limbo
To be wiped out from other’s memory
Sloane Rangers
1970s Lady Diana Spencer
To carry the world before one with smth
To be success in smth
To feel for all the world as if
Just like
A Norfolk dumpling
Daft
To see Naples and die
Naples
An Olympian detachment
An impersonal and unemotional view of human conflict
To fall down like the walls of Jericho
DZHErikow
To carry coals to Newcastle
To do something completely unnecessary
To cross the Rubicon
Heh
To cut the Gordian knot
R
The plan has gone down to Swanee
Gone to the dogs
A man on Clapham omnibus
Ordinary person in the streets
To meet one’s Waterloo
ABBA
More front than Brighton
More Catholic than the Pope
To be/end up on Carey Street
Go bankrupt
A road to Damascus change
St Paul
All Roads lead to Rome
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
