• the fine arts
• the first that comes along
• the first time
• the flood, the consequences of which were frightful
• the former
• the four Hundred Am.
• the front row
• the fruits of the earth
• the fry
• the game ended in a draw.
• the general and the particular
• the general public
• the gentle sex
• the ghost of a chance
• the gift of the gab
• the gift of tongues
• the gist of the matter fig.
• the glare of the sun
• the golden section
• the gravity of the situation
• the greatest fool
• the greatest writer alive
• the greenhouse effect and its consequences
• the grim Reaper
• the handicapped
• the hard of hearing
• the height of cheek
• the higher echelons
• the holy grail
• the homeless
• the hundred
• the hustle and bustle of the city
• the idle rich
• the immediate environs of ...
• the immediate family
• the immortal life
• the incumbent mayor
• the infant Jesus
• the infelicity of the expression
• the insane
• the jury
• the last but one
• the latest news
• the latest thing
• the latest trend
• the latter
• the leading thought
• the left
• the left-hand lane
• the legal heirs
• the lesser of the two evils
• the like
• the litigants
• the lower limbs
• the main thing is to be up there with the leaders
• the man and his wife
• the man in the street
• the measure of all things
• the merest
• the merest hint of ...
• the metric system of measurement
• the middlemen
• the more so as
• the morning after the night before
• the multiple
• the new woman
• the newly-formed German states
• the next but one
• the next of kin
• the next time
• the night before last
• the noughties
• the number 42 bus
• the nuptials
• the occupying forces
• the old West German states
• the one out
• the ones indicated
• the only reason
• the only way out
• the opposite
• the ordinary run of things
• the original autograph
• the other day
• the other way round
• the parlour
• the parties to a dispute
• the patrician classes
• the people of quality
• the person pulling the levers
• the picture of misery
• the picture on the wall
• the pill
• the plain fact
• the point at issue
• the point is
• the pond
• the poor
• the poor and needy
• the present author