"Fair weather fan" - person who is supportive of and enthusiastic about a sports team only when that team is performing well

"False god" - anything that is considered to assume a place of undue importance in one's life; a figment created by an emotionally decapitated person in hopes for acceptance

"Family crest" - a coat of arms, which is a shield with symbols and figures that represent a family, person, a group, or other organization

"Far cry from" - a thing that is very different from something else; a disappointing disparity

"Feather in cap" - an achievement to be proud of; a big accomplishment

"Few and far between" - very few and widely scattered; not very many or not appearing very frequently; occurring seldomly

"Figure of speech" - any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect

"Flash in the pan" - a project or person that enjoys only short lived success; a one hit wonder

"Fortune favors the bold" - a person will have good luck if they carry out their plans boldly

"Get off your soap box" - stop preaching your opinion; a polite way of saying "hush" or "change the subject already"; a soap box provides an opportunity for someone to air their views publicly; conventional attribute of street preacher who would stand on soap box and preach

"Get over yourself" - don't take yourself or your problems too seriously; it also means stop being so self-centered and conceited; telling someone to stop thinking that they are more important than other people, especially when they are complaining about something

"Give hostage to fortune" - an act, commitment, or remark which is regarded as unwise because it invites trouble or could prove difficult to live up to; an action or statement that could create problems for you later

"Go Figure" - statement that something doesn't make much sense; used as an expression of confusion; really strange; do not understand

"Go for broke" - to risk everything; to put everything on the line; try everything possible or do every last thing possible in a final attempt

"Go off on a tangent" - to suddenly start talking or thinking about a completely new subject; to pursue a somewhat related or irrelevant course while neglecting the main subject

"Go/Goes to town" - to accomplish something with great speed and efficiency; to engage in an activity with excessive energy or excitement; to act without restrain or overindulge oneself; to be successful

"Goes without saying" - certain things that don't need to be said but is already known; something that is obvious

"Grassroot movement / operation" - fiercely resistant to central control but yet, it can be incomparably loyal and self-sacrificing; a movement that develops organically at a local level before spreading throughout the state and even the country; having to do with something that originates from the common people; genuine public opinion for an issue that needs to be changed, in particular communities and individuals rather than political organizations or companies; meaning "of the people, for the people" originally used and abused by hippies

"Gravity of the situation" - seriousness or importance as a consequence of an action or opinion

"Grey Rock Method" - a person involves making all interactions with them as uninteresting and unrewarding as possible to make a narcissist lose interests and attention

"Gung Ho" (derived from an Asian word) - extremely excited and enthusiastic about doing something; to be so psyched out for war; having a mentality thinking one is bullet-proof; to be hyped up

"Hand over fist" - at a rapid pace; to do something very quickly; repeatedly and energetically

"Have a bone to pick with (you)" - something that you say when you want to talk to someone about something they have said or done that has annoyed you; addressing a complaint against another person

"Hays in the barn" - a farming phrase meaning there is nothing left to do because the work is done; a phrase indicating that something is over since the hay is in the barn as opposed to out in the field; all the hard work put in the practices was done

"Hearsay" - information received from other people that one can not provide evidence to support; a rumor

"Hit the pike" - to leave; split; vacate the premises

"House Money" - when you play with house money, you are putting your original investment back into your pocket where you have no risk of losing it and are keeping the proceeds from your investment in some security (investment vehicle), where even if you lose it all, you still have your original investment amount; having nothing to lose; feeling no pressure

"Illusions of grandeur" - illusion is the state of being deceived while grandeur is the quality of being impressive or awesome; deceiving one self into thinking they are impressive or awesome in some way when in reality, no one sees them in this way; a belief in something despite the fact that it's completely untrue

"In a bind" - a difficult or awkward position that a person finds themselves in, which may be threatening or embarrassing; a tight corner or spot that is not easy to escape; unable to solve a dilemma

"In the grand scheme of things" - in the long term; in the complete picture of something; when you put things into perspective, taking everything else into account, sometimes what has previously been considered significant isn't quite significant

"Inmates are running the asylum" - the people least capable of running a group or organization are now in charge; total chaos or calamity

"Innuendo" (derived from a Spanish word) - anything that gives off a wrong idea, or sick minded thought; subtle or not-so-subtle implications to sexual activity; an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one

"Institutional racism" - a form of racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions; it is reflected in disparities regarding wealth, income, criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, education, etc; it is distinguished from the explicit attitudes or racial bias of individuals by the existence of systematic policies or laws and practices that provide differential access to goods, services, and opportunities of society by race; it affects where people live, the quality of the education they receive, their income, types of food they have access to, adequate medical treatment available, and the types of interactions they have with the criminal justice system

"Interpersonal racism" - describes the negative feelings between two people; a component of individual level racism and has been defined as "directly perceived discriminatory interactions between individuals whether in their institutional roles or as public and private individuals"

"Jim Crow laws" - state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States that was enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries