Appeals list

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all mouth and no trousers:

(1977)

been there, done that:

(1991)

driven a. (as by ambition, urgency etc.):

(1932)

Memphian n./a. (native or inhabitant of Memphis, Tennessee):

(1961)

midhusband n.:

(1984)

mirror ball (in dance-hall, etc.):

(1978)

mirror globe (= mirror ball):

(1965)

mission statement:

(1979)

mistruth n.:

(1959)

monetarily adv.:

(1968, but in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895)

monkishly adv.:

(1981, but in 1934 Webster)

moose milk (Canad., = alcoholic drinks):

(1957)

much maligned:

(1932)

murder v. trans. (of an item of food or drink):

(1980)

national heritage:

(1941)

Nazi a./n. (in general use, = authoritarian):

(1989)

nether regions (colloq./euphem., the buttocks or genitals):

(1973)

New Year('s) resolution:

(1971)

niblet n. (a small portion of food):

(1975)

noughth a. (as in noughth week, noughth symphony):

(1985)

to touch (or hit) a raw nerve:

(1962)