Idiom Index: Words and Themes Beginning with ‘D’

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Find idioms related to words beginning with the letter D.

Daily

• Daily Bread (One’s)
• Daily Dozen
• Daily Grind, the

Damn

• Damn With Faint Praise
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

Dance

• It Takes Two to Tango
• Shake a Leg
• Trip the Light Fantastic

Dare

• Don’t You Dare

Dark

• Dark Horse Meaning
• In the Dark
• Pitch Dark
• Shot in the Dark

Day

• A Day Late and a Dollar Short
• At the End of the Day
• Back in the Day Meaning
• Broad Daylight, in
• Call it a Day
• Carry the Day
• Day In And Day Out
• Don’t Give Up Your Day Job
• Even a Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day
• Happy as the Day is Long
• Red Letter Day

Dead

• Beat a Dead Horse
• Dead and Buried
• Dead as a Doornail
• Dead Easy

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Deal

• Big Deal
• Raw Deal, a
• Square Deal, a

Death

• At Death’s Door
• Be the Death of (me, someone)
• Bored to Death
• Catch Your Death (You’ll)
• Sick and Tired
• Worried to Death

Deep

• Go Off The Deep End

Desert

• Get One’s Just Deserts, to

Devil

• Better The Devil You Know
• Devil’s Advocate, to play
• Get Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed, to
• Raise Hell
• Speak of the Devil

Dice

• Die Is Cast, the
• Roll the Dice

Die

Different

• Horse of a Different Color
• March to the Beat of a Different Drummer

Dime

• A Dime a Dozen
• Drop A Dime (on someone)
• Stop On A Dime

Dinner

• Rubber-Chicken Dinner

Dirt

• Air Dirty Laundry In Public
• Dirt Cheap Meaning
• Dish The Dirt

Disguise

• Blessing In Disguise

Dish

• Dish Out or Dish it Out
• Dish The Dirt
• Dull As Dishwater (or Ditchwater)

Ditch

• Dull As Dishwater (or Ditchwater)
• Last-Ditch (effort, attempt)

Do

• Anything Doing?
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• Do You Mind?
• Do Your Best
• Do Yourself (or Oneself) an Injury
• Make Do

Dollar

• A Day Late and a Dollar Short
• Ten-Dollar Word

Dog

• Clean as a Hound’s Tooth
• Dog And Pony Show
• Dog Days
• Dog Eat Dog
• Dog in the Manger
• Dog Tired
• Fight Like Cats and Dogs
• I’m Going to See a Man About a Horse (Dog, Duck) Meaning
• In the Doghouse
• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
• Raining Cats And Dogs

Don’t

• Can’t (or don’t) Judge a Book by Its Cover
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• Don’t Believe Everything You Read
• Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You Meaning
• Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk
• Don’t Get Me Started
• Don’t Give Up Your Day Job
• Don’t I Know It
• Don’t Mention It (Thank You Response)
• Don’t Mind Me
• Don’t Start
• Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels
• Don’t You Dare

Door

• At Death’s Door
• Behind Closed Doors
• Dead as a Doornail
• Katie Bar the Door

Doubt

• Benefit of the Doubt
• Doubting Thomas, a

Down

• Caught With Your Pants Down
• Down the Rabbit Hole
• Down the Road
• Down to Earth

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Dozen

• A Dime a Dozen
• Baker’s Dozen
• Daily Dozen
• Talk Nineteen to the Dozen

Drag

• Haul Someone Over the Coals
• Like Something The Cat Dragged In
• Look What the Cat Dragged In

Draw

• Back To The Drawing Board
• Draw A Blank
• Draw Fire
• Draw the Line
• Draw the Short Straw
• Drawn Like a Moth to a Flame
• Luck Of The Draw
• Quick On The Draw
• Run a Bath

Dream

• Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
• Bottoms Up
• Fall Off the Wagon
• Hit the Bottle

Drinking

• Bottoms Up
• Fall Off the Wagon
• Hit the Bottle

Drive

• Backseat Driver Meaning
• Beat the Traffic
• Burn Rubber (to)
• Drive Into
• Drive Someone Up the Wall
• Put the Pedal to the Metal
• Rush Hour
• Traffic Idioms In English

Drop

• At the Drop of a Hat
• Drop A Dime (on someone)
• Drop a Hint
• Drop Dead
• Drop in the Bucket
• Hot Potato
• Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Drown

• Drown Your Sorrows

Drugs

• Slip Someone a Mickey (Finn)

Dry

• Cut And Dried
• Hang Out to Dry

Duck

• Get Your Ducks in a Row
• Lovely Weather for Ducks
• Sitting Duck
• Water Off a Duck’s Back, like

Dull

• Dull As Dishwater (or Ditchwater)