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The Phrase Finder: Meanings and Origins of Phrases

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The free section of this site provides the meanings and origins of thousands of quotations, euphemisms, popular fallacies and misheard song lyrics. A British site, some of the expressions are not familiar to most Americans.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
idioms, proverbs, word origins
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Additional Tags
biblical sayings, euphemisms, mondegreens, nautical phrases, phrases from shakespeare
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
Common Core
L.11-12.1.a L.11-12.1.b