User:Hippietrail/Silly phrases which should not be in a serious dictionary

Most of the entries here I feel are paraphrases, circumlocutions, periphrastic, or transparent phrases which are understood by looking up there component words, and do not appear in any monolingual print dictionary I know of. Many I have submitted for RFD in the past. There’s even some I created in my naivete or to illustrate the sillyness.

b, B

• boiled egg

e, E

• egg salad
• Egyptian pyramid
• email message, e-mail message
• empty space

f, F

• fictional character
• file sharing
• fried egg

i, I

• item of furniture

l, L

• leaf storm
• like shit

m, M

• Mycenaean civilization

o, O

• on a shoestring

p, P

• pick up the phone

s, S

• Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

t, T

• The Beatles
• touch-tone dialling
• transitive verb with animate object

u, U

• Unix hacker

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Single-word entries I don’t think should be included

• ADO (Spanish)
• IHOP
• PowerPoint
• Winamp