frog

frog

1. slang A road. The term comes from rhyming slang in which "frog" is short for "frog and toad," which rhymes with "road." Primarily heard in UK, Australia. She lives just down the frog on the corner—can't miss it. I think we'd better hit the frog if we want to make it on time.
2. slang A derogatory term for a French person. I'm not sure what my grandma had against France, but she very strongly believed that "frogs," as she called them, were not to be trusted.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See:
  • (as) mad as a box of frogs
  • a (real) frog-choker
  • a (real) frog-strangler
  • a big frog in a small pond
  • a frog in (one's) throat
  • a frog in throat
  • a frog in your throat
  • a little frog in a big pond
  • a small frog in a big pond
  • big fish in a small pond
  • big frog in a small pond
  • biggest frog in the puddle
  • boiling frog
  • boiling frog syndrome
  • finer than frog hair
  • frog
  • frog and toad
  • frog eater
  • frog face
  • frog in (one's) throat
  • frog in a small pond
  • frog in one's throat
  • frog slicing
  • have a frog in (one's) throat
  • have a frog in your throat
  • if a toady frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass
  • If frogs had wheels, they wouldn't bump their butts
  • if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butts (when they hop)
  • know no more about (something) than a frog knows about bedsheets
  • know no more about than a frog knows about bedsheets
  • like herding frogs
  • little frog in a big pond
  • the biggest frog in the puddle
References in classic literature
I watched very carefully as he moved about among the Frogs; but I could not see that any of them opened their mouths to be fed-- except one very young one, and I'm nearly sure it did it accidentally, in yawning.
The entertainment was to conclude with "Bits of Shakespeare," as Sylvie expressed it, which were all to be done by Bruno, Sylvie being fully engaged in making the Frogs keep their heads towards the stage: after which Bruno was to appear in his real character, and tell them a Story of his own invention.
When I see what he's dressed like, I've to tell the Frogs what character it is.
(So now, when you hear the Frogs croaking in a particularly melancholy way, you may be sure they're trying to guess Bruno's next Shakespeare
However, the chorus of guessing was cut short by Bruno, who suddenly rushed on from behind the scenes, and took a flying leap down among the Frogs, to re-arrange them.
For the oldest and fattest Frog--who had never been properly arranged so that he could see the stage, and so had no idea what was going on--was getting restless, and had upset several of the Frogs, and turned others round with their heads the wrong way.
Bruno had meanwhile settled the question by disappearing from the stage; and the Frogs instantly began inquiring the name of the next Character.
"You'll know directly!" cried Sylvie, as she adjusted two or three young Frogs that had struggled round with their backs to the stage.
Thorn!" arose from the Frogs (I had quite learned to understand their croaking by this time).
Yet it appeared that King Lear, after deep meditation, could think of no other argument by which to prove his kingship: and, as this was the last of the 'Bits' of Shakespeare ("We never do more than three," Sylvie explained in a whisper), Bruno gave the audience quite a long series of somersaults before he finally retired, leaving the enraptured Frogs all crying out "More!
Sylvie and Bruno
The Prince obeyed the Frog's orders one by one, and all went well for this second time also.
However, what troubled him most was the idea of having to meet the Frog who had been his benefactress.
But poor Saphir was so unhappy, and begged so hard for forgiveness, that at last the Frog's anger gave way, and she held up to him a tiny diamond stone.
After some time spent in the most tender conversation, the Prince could not restrain himself from asking the lovely unknown by what lucky chance she was wandering in the forest; where the fountain had gone; and if she knew anything of the Frog to whom he owed all his happiness, and to whom he must give up the bird, which, somehow or other, was still sound asleep.
'Ah, my lord,' she replied, with rather an awkward air, 'as to the Frog, she stands before you.
Yellow Fairy Book