American

the things a young woman collects to use in her home after she is married.

Gloria spent the next few months embroidering sheets for her hope chest.

• ex gratia
• explain away
• explain away something
• extoll the virtues of
• extoll the virtues of someone
• extoll the virtues of something
• extracurricular activity
• eyeball to eyeball
• eyeball-to-eyeball
• eye candy
• eye-catching
• eye of the storm
• eyes are bigger than belly
• eyes are bigger than stomach
• eyes are bigger than their belly
• eyes are bigger than their stomach
• eyes are out on stalks
• eyes pop out of head
• eyes pop out of your head
• face as long as a wet week
• face doesn't fit
• face facts
• face is a picture
• face it
• face-saving