Words that only ever get used with specific other words.

[Deleted member 5265]

Short shrift

Nice one.

 

[Occam's Razor]

Eke out

 

[Deleted member 40035]

Nice one marra

 

[Rustie Trombone]

The fray is only entered in football.

 

[MackemBob]

The fray is only entered in football.

And historical wars

 

[Aituk7]

Someone can be in a high dudgeon, but never just in a dudgeon.

Someone else can be hoist with their own petard. A petard never occurs anywhere else but in the context of self-hoisting.

Very odd.

Happy as larry....

Why is larry happy and why are other people not as happy?

 

[Jack Blue]

The phrase “eeeeh and they say romance is dead”

Ive literally never heard anyone comment or complain that romance was dead.

 

[Snugster]

Nobody has a normal heart attack. It’s always a massive heart attack.

And people are rushed to hospital rather than taken.

 

[peachy]

Bygones with bygones.

Let bygones be bygones.

 

[DurhambornCounty]

Sunderland 0 Doncaster 0 Freemasons Arms

Freemason’s Tavern in Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London.

 

[muggboots]

Someone can be in a high dudgeon, but never just in a dudgeon.

Someone else can be hoist with their own petard. A petard never occurs anywhere else but in the context of self-hoisting.

Very odd.

Incandescent with rage. Those light bulbs must be proper angry bastards.

A petard was an explosive device used to blow in gates etc. during sieges (e.g. during the English Civil War). To be hoist on your own petard is to be blown up by your own explosives - it's actually still quite apt when you know what it means.

Is that why you used the horse instead?

 

[GK]

Thwart and brexit

 

[Vinny the Mackem]

Beef curtains goes well together

I prefer them apart, to be honest.

 

[muggboots]

And historical wars

And lively gigs, clubs and dancefloors.

 

[Aituk7]

Incandescent with rage

Good shout.

 

[muggboots]

Thwart and brexit

Nah, plans, advances and romantic designs are all frequently thwarted hither and thither.

Good shout.

Pent up anger as well. Is anything else ever pent up?

 

[The Sinful Dwarf]

Is it only the first round of the FA cup that's referred to as the 'first round proper'?

 

[RossTheNinja]

Nonplussed.
Which now means the opposite of what it actually means cos no-one knew what it meant.

 

[Aituk7]

Nah, plans, advances and romantic designs are all frequently thwarted hither and thither.

Pent up anger as well. Is anything else ever pent up?

On a roll, mine was anything as happy as larry?

 

[muggboots]

Is it only the first round of the FA cup that's referred to as the 'first round proper'?

No, it's the 3rd.