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Entry Index

Super Bowl to Tippecanoe and Tyler too

superconductivity

superconductivity

supply and demand

supply-side economics

surface tension

surfing the Web

swap (switch) horses in midstream

sweeten the kitty

sweetness and light

Swift, Jonathan

“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

The Swiss Family Robinson

The Symposium

synthetic polymers

Taft-Hartley Act

Taft, William Howard

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

Take the bitter with the sweet

take the bull by the horns

Taliban movement

The Taming of the Shrew

Taxation without representation is tyranny

Taylor, Elizabeth

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

technological unemployment

tectonic plates

Ten Commandments

Tennessee River

Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

Thatcher, Margaret

The bad workman always blames his tools

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry

The best of friends must part

The best things in life are free

The bigger they come, the harder they fall

The buck stops here

The business of America is business

The chickens have come home to roost

The course of true love never did run smooth

The Czech Republic

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose

The devil is in the details

the devil to pay

The early bird catches the worm

The female of the species is more deadly than the male

The game is not worth the candle

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

the green-eyed monster

the handwriting on the wall

The horror! The horror!

the King’s English

The lady doth protest too much

The land was ours before we were the land’s

The last shall be first

The Last Supper

The leopard cannot change its spots

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life

The love of money is the root of all evil

the Low Countries

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

The medium is the message

The meek shall inherit the Earth

The meek shall inherit the Earth

The more the merrier

The Netherlands

The one who pays the piper calls the tune

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

The pen is mightier than the sword

The proof of the pudding is in the eating

The public be damned

The quality of mercy is not strained

The quality of mercy is not strained

therapeutic cloning

therapeutic virus

There are plenty of fish in the sea

There is no joy in Mudville

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip

There’s method in his madness

There’s more than one way to skin a cat

There’s no accounting for taste

There’s no fool like an old fool

There’s no place like home

There was a little girl / Who had a little curl

“There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”

thermal equilibrium

thermal pollution

thermonuclear reaction

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

the Salvation Army

These are the times that try men’s souls

The show must go on

the Ugly American

The voice of one crying in the wilderness

the Western Wall

the winter of our discontent

The wish is father of the deed

The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb

The world must be made safe for democracy

They also serve who only stand and wait

thief in the night, like a

thing-in-itself

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

thirteen colonies

Thirty days hath September

Thirty-nine Articles

thirty pieces of silver

Thirty Years’ War

“This Land Is Your Land”

“This Little Piggy Went to Market”

Thomas, the doubting apostle

Thoreau, Henry David

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

“Three Blind Mice”

Three Mile Island

Three Mile Island

The Three Musketeers

“The Three Pigs”

three sheets to the wind

through a glass darkly

Through the Looking-Glass

through thick and thin

throw in the towel

thrown to the lions

throw the book at someone

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Tiananmen Square

tide in the affairs of men, There is a

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright

tight-money policy

till the cows come home

Time and tide wait for no man

Time heals all wounds

Time is of the essence

Time’s wingéd chariot

A time to be born and a time to die

tip of the iceberg

Tippecanoe and Tyler too

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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