What is the meaning of TALL POPPIES. Phrases containing TALL POPPIES
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a rag covering for a sore finger or thumb (thumb-stall, finger-stall); bandaid
An all talk, no action, type of person.
Bat and Ball is London Cockney rhyming slang for a market stall. Bat and Ball is London Cockney rhyming slang for wall.
Tell the tale is slang for deceive or trick with a plausible story. A hoax.
Gall is slang for impudence; brazen assurance.
Albert hall is British rhyming slang for wall.
Telling a tall tale.
Call off all bets is Black−American slang for to die
Call is Australian slang for to vomit.
To claim ownership. ("I call shotgun!").
Pall Mall was th century London Cockney rhyming slang for a girl.
Tall poppies is Australian slang for prominent people.
Fall is Dorset slang fror autumn.
Telling a tall tale.
ALL BEHIND LIKE THE COW'S TAIL
All behind like the cow's tail is Irish slang for late.
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v. t.
To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
v. t.
To collect, as a toll.
v. i.
To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
n.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
n.
That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
n.
That which is told; tale; account.
n.
A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall.
v. t.
To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
n.
See Pall-mall.
superl.
High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
n.
The gall bladder.
v. t.
To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
n. & a.
See Pall-mall.
v. i.
To tell stories.
v. t.
To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
v. t.
To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
v. i.
To pay toll or tallage.
v. t.
To let fall; to drop.
n.
See Tael.
n.
A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
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