marching season
noun
A season of processions or parades held annually throughout Northern Ireland from 12 July to 12 August in which Protestants (especially Orangemen) march in celebration of the defeat of the Catholic James II by William III (William of Orange) at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Times.
- the Bible
- the Big Board
- the big boys
- the Big C
- the Big Dipper
- the big enchilada
- the big five
- the big idea
- the big lie
- the big (or bigger or larger) picture
- the big screen
- the Big Smoke
- the big stick
- the Big Three (or Four etc.)
- the bird has flown
- the birds and the bees
- the biter bitten (or bit)
- the Blessed Sacrament
- the Blitz
- the bloom is off the rose
- the Boat Race
- the body beautiful
- the Book of Psalms
- the Books of the Maccabees
- the boot (or shoe) is on the other foot