pay director
US Navy
noun
An officer of the pay corps, of equivalent rank to a captain.
Origin
Late 19th century.
- the game is up
- the game's not worth the candle
- the garden of England
- the Garter
- the General Strike
- the gents
- the genuine article
- the ghost in the machine
- the gift of the gab
- the gift of tongues
- the glass is half-full (or half-empty)
- the gloves are off (or with the gloves off or take the gloves off)
- thegn
- the Goat
- the Godhead
- the Good Book
- the Good Shepherd
- the gory details
- the Graces
- the Grail
- the Grampians
- the Grand Manner
- the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence)
- the Great
- the great and the good