Finding Phrases and Meanings

The actual title of the index (home) page for Phrases.org website is this unwieldy list: Meanings and origins of sayings and phrases List of sayings English sayings Idiom definitions Idiom examples Idiom origins List of idioms Idiom dictionary Meaning of idioms. Looks like an SEO specialist gone wild! It offers several interesting and useful tools for writers, including:

1. The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms
2. Bulletin board with a forum and searchable archive of more than 50,000 postings about sayings and phrases
3. The currently most popular phrases
4. A phrase of the week you can receive by email or RSS
5. A list of popular fallacies about phrases
6. Basic search engine for phrases on the site and web

The list of The Nonsense Nine most popular phrases about which they receive bogus source information is fascinating. I found myself having fallen prey to one or more of them. Think you know the origin and/or true meaning of these?

1. The whole nine yards
2. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
3. POSH
4. The full monty
5. The real McCoy
6. Scot free
7. Golf
8. Raining cats and dogs
9. Dead ringer