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The meaning of, and background to, well-known expressions and phrases beginning with the letter "P"

Well-Known Expressions

19 expressions starting with "P"

Put up or shut up

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

Put on the back burner

Pushing the envelope

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps

Promises are like pie crust, they are made to be broken

Pride goes before a fall

Practice what you preach

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely

Possession is nine points of the law

Politically Correct

Pigs Might Fly

Physician, heal thyself

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Pay as you go

Patience is a virtue

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Paint The Town Red

Paddle your own canoe

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