B
Background, to put in, [188]
Back made for burden, [181]
Bad day, bad night, [75]
Bad thing never dies, [152]
Bag and baggage, [106]
Band-box, come out of a, [110]
Bark worse than bite, [69]
Bay, to be at, [2]
Beak and claw, [173]
Beat about the bush, to, [24], [33], [65], [193]
Beat black and blue, [84], [99]
Beat hollow, to, [86]
Bedlam let loose, [207]
Bee in one’s bonnet, [19]
Beer, no small, of oneself, [167]
Beggars cannot be choosers, [106]
Beginning not everything, [74]
Behind the scenes, [55]
Best cheapest in the end, [158]
Best of friends must part, [75]
Be the day short, [147]
Better dry bread at home, [38]
Better late than never, [218]
Better the day, better the deed, [42], [148]
Between devil and deep sea, [107]
Between ourselves, [198]
Between two stools, [63]
B from a bull’s foot, not to know, [1]
Bigwig, [43]
Billingsgate, [140]
Bird fouls its own nest, an ill, [169]
Bird in hand, [220]
Birds flown, to find the, [51], [169]
Birds of a feather, [22], [140]
Bird that catches the worm, [150], [203]
Bird told me so, a little, [99]
Bit by bit, [9]
Black eyes, a couple of, [170]
Blood from a stone, to get, [67]
Blow brains out, [50], [58], [209]
Blues, to have the, [169]
Boat, to be in same, [108]
Bone to pick, to have a, [154]
Bore, [201]
Born to be hanged, never drowned, [94]
Borrowing sorrowing, [21]
Bow to circumstances, [32], [50]
Boycott, to, [144]
Boys will be boys, [147]
Brand new, [33]
Bread is buttered, which side, [176]
Bred in the bone, what is, [54], [63]
Broken reed, [19]
Broom sweeps clean, a new, [30], [96]
Bull by the horns, to seize the, [22]
Burn candle at both ends, [60]
Burnt child dreads the fire, [63]
Business, to mind one’s own, [5]
Business is business, [7]
Butter would not melt in mouth, [169]