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]

Bell the cat, to, [22], [137]

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]

Biter bit, the, [139], [149]

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]

Bygones be bygones, to let, [174], [198]