marching season
noun
A season of processions or parades held annually throughout Northern Ireland from 12 July to 12 August in which Protestants (especially Orangemen) march in celebration of the defeat of the Catholic James II by William III (William of Orange) at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Times.
- Betti, Ugo
- bettong
- bettor
- be tuned in
- between
- between a rock and a hard place
- between jobs
- between ourselves (or you and me)
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- between you and me and the bedpost (or the gatepost or the wall)
- between you and me and the gatepost
- between you and me and the wall
- be twice the man/woman (that someone is)
- betwixt
- betwixt and between
- be two a penny
- be two (or ten) a penny
- beun
- be unable to believe one's eyes (or ears)
- be unable to hear oneself think
- be unable to (or be hardly able to) believe one's luck
- be unable to punch one's way out of a paper bag
- be unable to see the wood (or the forest) for the trees
- be under no illusion (or illusions)
- be under the illusion that