Meaning 1: A person who is true blue is loyal and dependable, someone who can be relied on in all circumstances. Category: Colours View examples in Google: True blue Meaning 2: Someone who is true blue is extremely loyal. Contributed By: lingokid Category: Colours View examples in Google: True blue

When you say that people fought like Kilkenny cats, you mean they fought valiantly to the bitter end, even if they are both destroyed. For instance, ”The two political parties fought like Kilkenny cats over the matter”

Usually followed by the word “but,” this is essentially a call to pay attention to the next words out of the speaker’s mouth, e.g., “Not for nothing, but did you see the way he looked at you?”

If you let the dust settle, or wait till the dust settles, you wait until things have become calmer or have returned to normality after conflict or a problem.

An idiom primarily used by those from the North East of England, used to emphasize the fact that children who fail to ask for something (usually from an older person) probably won’t succeed in obtaining it. (bairn = child, nowt = nothing)

You pays your money and you takes your chances means that when you do something that involves a risk, you cannot control the outcome, so you may win or lose and should accept that.

You pays your money and you takes your choice is used when people have to make choices that could result in them winning or losing- it is their decision and responsibility.

There was a battle in Waterloo, in present-day Belgium on June 18th, 1815, which Napoleon lost. If someone has “met their Waterloo”, it means they have been defeated or met their death.

If you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you make the effort to improve things for yourself. Category: Clothes View examples in Google: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps

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