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at least
kind of
go on
deal with
come from
sort of
find out
come out
so far
come up
go through
come in
come back
in front of
all over
get it
going on
after all
on the other hand
work out
get out
get into
look forward to
get in
wake up
come up with
take care
get back
figure out
in the end
take care of
move on
go with
on top of
come on
get out of
by the way
what about
show up
up to
crap
take in
keep up
sounds like
turn on
can tell
look after
get away
bring up
take into account
look into
for sure
go away
leave behind
keep in mind
up to somebody
go ahead
first of all
get back to
the hell
let alone
in short
turn off
from time to time
hand in
go off
line up
fall in love
get through
get over
let go
seems to me
at the end of the day
at best
step up
come on
in the meantime
go over
bottom line
clean up
get away with something
turn in
on time
turn up
on your own
more or less
on board
head in
for that matter
hold up
leave alone
wind up
a big deal
bound to
walk into
in and out
to bitch
you know
speak out
throw in
kick off something
stand by
in all
catch up with
in the long run
hang on
add up
black and white
bear in mind
take down
all right
go after
live up to
hard time
in light of
on the one hand
make the most of
by no means
give rise to
look out for
make a point
count on
day-to-day
pull off
get in touch
make up for
up front
change your mind
at the very least
all in all
now and then
never mind
(to be) into
that's it
side with
come to an end
put down
gay
track record
give in
thus far
mind you
on the whole
break in
that's right
just in case
settle down
on the table
out of control
step into
run out of
put up with
on hand
head out
most of all
go for it
get someone into something
stand up to
the thing is
cutting-edge
settle for
head up
step-by-step
fall down
pick out
in view of
from scratch
bail out
stuck with
speak up
spell something out
get in the way
all over the place
what the hell
go along with
hang out with
around the corner
more often than not
get someone out of something
so to speak
fed up
high-end
take back
for once
look over
time off
track down
pave the way
come across as
sooner or later
keep an eye on
any number of
miss the point
take a break
all for
see through something
for the record
turning point
pick someone up
on top of that
fall short
come to terms with
on the spot
get your hands on
for the time being
from now on
a matter of time
across the board
along the lines of
on the verge of
calm down
think through
take your time
as a matter of fact
lay off
rip off
on the road
freak out
take it
up and running
state of affairs
let's go
back-to-back
draw attention to
on hold
under way
get (a)hold of
go out of your way
out of touch
fair enough
come your way
think twice
nowhere near
over the top
in the interest of
think out
first off
get something across
good enough for
once and for all
let someone down
keep in touch
ups and downs
put off
so much for someone or something
be there for
pile up
in the interests of
open up
at any rate
bug someone
open-minded
be yourself
back off
have no clue
case in point
at fault
time and again
so be it
shy away from
pick on
have a point
on the go
go missing
ahead of time
catch someone's eye
in the distance
rest assured
out of place
a getaway
count for
catch up on something
on one hand
get down to
in good faith
root for
the big picture
at all costs
pissed off
no-brainer
year after year
come to light
out of hand
could (not) care less
crystal clear
dwell on
common ground
on purpose
get around to
give someone away
Oh my God
dump (someone)
save time
go hand in hand
Oh dear
go ahead with
feel at home
to boot
up-and-coming
watch over
business as usual
speak for itself/themselves
finish up
at a loss
up in the air
go too far
at first glance
game plan
take through
at random
in this day and age
break someone's heart
to your face
have an affair
cool down
wake-up call
start over
out of date
from day one
in due course
turn a blind eye
out and about
face up to
rule of thumb
catch up with someone
stand behind
down to earth
tipping point
do the trick
last but not least
dawn on
look down on
die out
on the right track
short-sighted
think over
clean out
red tape
walk off
get on with it
sucks
come to life
out of the blue
in the red
chill out
can't tell you
follow in someone's footsteps
mull over
now and again
make ends meet
pit against
on the lookout
pitch in
read into
thumbs up
get along with
will have to do
spot on
pull together
what's up
wait out
in the circumstances
crack down
day after day
give off
without question
just like that
stay in touch
out of pocket
on the same page
have your way
head over to
above and beyond
come by something
the powers that be
heads up
over and above
against your will
drive someone crazy
food for thought
mother tongue
in the black
take lightly
get your way
have come a long way
bank on
to go ahead
make or break
like crazy
steer clear of
snap up
in and of itself
teach a lesson
call into question
under fire
tough times
eye opener
leave out
the beginning of the end
draw the line
stick with it
have (got) what it takes
make do
gloss over
underdog
take issue with
up to speed
not have a clue
on track
swear by
on it
make someone's day
flesh something out
rank and file
out of the question
broke
fast track
enough is enough
behind someone's back
the benefit of the doubt
in the pipeline
in brief
stand a chance
up for grabs
with me
hands down
reality check
such and such
on the heels of
all the same
far cry from
take it easy
off the hook
keep your head
make an appearance
call-off
take stock
mess around
here goes
Oh God
fine line
at first sight
hold your own
the upper hand
by all accounts
easier said than done
checks and balances
no way
out in the open
that depends
make the best of
in the same boat
on the cards
keep at bay
tongue-in-cheek
play along
do wonders
take root
do justice to
get a life
speak your mind
wear and tear
open someone's eyes to
off limits
blue collar
break even
under the auspices of
cash in on
hard pressed to
go bad
in tow
the tip of the iceberg
out of your mind
trot out
in black and white
make a point of
cross your mind
get to the bottom of something
hooked on
few and far between
stand your ground
in the mainstream
work your way up (to)
clock in
chime in
measure up
and then some
as an aside
on the road to
have nerve
all-out
on the face of it
sick and tired
able-bodied
blow someone/something away
in full swing
go through with
next to nothing
go all out
go a long way in
first-rate
not so much
out of line
fall through
rush hour
at the least
for good measure
to the letter
to whitewash
two-time
in the interim
shed light on
second to none
from the get-go
red herring
hit the nail on the head
from the ground up
falling down
to the best of your ability
an elephant in the room
come of age
soldier on
cool off
take heart
off the table
high point
out of your head
at your fingertips
hold against
come to the fore
in league
work wonders
size up
wash off
set back
crazy about
take sides
stick together
under the circumstances
make a deal
suck it up (and tough it out)
save the day
egg on
in your own time
ready-made
get your act together
you bet
try your hand at
get through to
see someone through something
vicious cycle
game changer
it is high time
change hands
get the hang of
bad times
go overboard
down the drain
only time will tell
hit the road
Oh man
put off by
see the light of day
go with the flow
sing someone's/something's praises
trip up
make a (big) fuss
stumbling block
fair game
high and low
form an opinion
see the light at the end of the tunnel
part ways
fit the bill
with a bang
fill someone in
put into words
half-baked
gain ground
check into
heart goes out to
hang in there
red-hot
a long shot
ins and outs
tick off things
word for word
go about your business
icing on the cake
scratch the surface
get the picture
open doors
stand the test of time
in short supply
best of both worlds
go a long way toward(s)
back on your feet
go the extra mile
up in arms
think outside the box
gut feeling
on the money
least of all
back to basics
take to heart
have time on your hands
call the shots
lion's share
saddled with
come clean
go it alone
around the clock
make headway
keep someone posted
look the other way
leap of faith
bring it on
beg to differ
make your way back
as a last resort
freak someone out
in the back of your mind
long-winded
run out of time
head down to
run-of-the-mill
at the point of
pull the plug
onto something
without fail
aid and abet
fly in the face of
soft spot
get your head around
make peace
all and sundy
off the top of your head
have a hand in
mind your own business
get something off the ground
short on
the go-ahead
what do you say
day in and day out
go to great lengths
have a word with
tailor-made
to hell with
in the bag
come to grips with
foot the bill
throw together
window of opportunity
fall out with someone
make time for
leading edge
second nature
on the bright side
stick by
time after time
all or nothing
take out on
tip off
run with it
for goodness' sake
call it a day
agree to disagree
all told
vicious circle
on edge
pull through
follow through on
dirty work
play it safe
over the moon
on standby
up to something
beat yourself up
read between the lines
rip out
take a back seat
crack up
second guess
make something count
back to the drawing board
take up arms
wander off
go through the motions
strike a deal
stop short of
of your own accord
tie the knot
drive someone nuts
throw light on
in the loop
nitty-gritty
follow your heart
throw in the towel
small-time
on that note
out of your depth
second-rate
in the same breath
break the news
shoot yourself in the foot
think big
catch your breath
top of the line
ahead of your time
moral high ground
serve notice
run its course
hell bent
straight face
off the wall
strike a balance
beside the point
rat race
bite the bullet
through and through
cook up
let up
lay the groundwork
run wild
pat on the back
sales pitch
touch up
saving grace
level the playing field
keep in check
bad faith
lose your temper
mean nothing to
give and take
rule out
put your finger on
chain of command
crazy for
black or white
gravy train
slip up
week in week out
take something by storm
burned out
cut corners
sound off
put to the test
feel out
time's up
all the rage
stick up for
breadwinner
hidden agenda
surf the web
follow through with
weirdo
come on to
set the bar
take a seat
hit and run
add insult to injury
lose ground
kick yourself
crank up
in the short run
time flies
an uphill battle
set in stone
fall on deaf ears
in spades
with something to spare
act up
drive someone mad
drop the ball
get nowhere
night and day
have someone's back
have something to spare
take your breath away
loose ends
hit and miss
off the cuff
jump to conclusions
put it mildly
stick to your guns
a mixed bag
stoop to
safe bet
come to your senses
out of this world
buy off
zero in on
for all intents and purposes
take a cue from
in due time
fall from grace
a can of worms
can of worms
play catch up
ahead of the game
point the finger at
resign yourself to
week after week
lend a hand
so it goes
come around to
have the time of your life
day in day out
lose the plot
drop dead
fool around
smoke and mirrors
in concert with
force your hand
mean business
pipe dream
have a field day
custom-made
like mad
precious little
same here
by the book
rock the boat
train of thought
walk out on someone
in good time
run amok
seal the deal
out on a limb
fall by the wayside
to your heart's content
bend over backwards
swamped
it hit me
for heaven's sake
get a handle on something
have a ball
to the hilt
force to be reckoned with
down to the wire
I told you so.
mark my words
keep your eyes open
save face
sweet tooth
up to scratch
sounds as if
round the clock
pay lip service
think ahead
come full circle
think much of
get back at
mince words
hit the ground running
pay your dues
sour grapes
go easy
just the same
stab someone in the back
have a shot at
in the meanwhile
par for the course
come up short
along for the ride
blessing in disguise
don't hold your breath
see into
tell it like it is
tell you what
middle-of-the-road
for crying out loud
in the right place at the right time
worth your while
see something through
lame duck
in hot water
call it quits
cherry pick
crack someone up
that's that
turn the tables
heart of the matter
get the ball rolling
spruce up
see eye to eye
off the beaten track
cross your fingers
off the rails
down the toilet
take something at face value
back to square one
control freak
AWOL
be all and end all
a lost cause
at short notice
on your game
clean slate
a sport
neck and neck
duck in
the last straw
on the safe side
worth your salt
buy time
ease up
jump on the bandwagon
get the nod
under your breath
grind to a halt
lay your hands on
rub shoulders with
rile up
give the green light
bide your time
bear down
house of cards
hunker down
look out for oneself
clear the air
ivory tower
wide awake
take someone up on something
cut-throat
space out
have mixed feelings
jump the gun
mean something to
drag your feet
off base
false sense of security
have your/its moments
a slap in the face
crackpot
spur of the moment
deep pockets
brush up on
call a spade a spade
free-for-all
ramble on
walk in the park
thumbs down
ahead of the curve
hold water
on the back burner
dark horse
look the part
out of action
keep someone in the dark
have your work cut out
beyond words
run short
go through the roof
john
caught in the middle
drive someone insane
alive with
take it or leave it
if all else fails
peter out
when all is said and done
do or die
hard of hearing
scot-free
make peace with
hear someone out
suck up to
child's play
live and let live
see red
rattle off
fill in for someone
have an edge
oddball
under the table
trade on
keep your cool
thin line
neck of the woods
change your tune
spill the beans
tear into
such as it is
trump up
get under someone's skin
at the drop of a hat
in short order
in the blink of an eye
off-the-shelf
break the ice
a tall order
think highly of
storm out
call time
without a hitch
get a kick out of
golden boy
a matter of life and death
nip it in the bud
miss the boat
give someone a hard time
hit it off
under the aegis of
stuck in the middle
a fighting chance
Pandora's box
in the dark
in good hands
go out on a limb
part company
have words with
hard-nosed
cat and mouse
off your head
cut your losses
go to town
have your own way
a credit to
leave no stone unturned
leave the door open
give a hand
out of whack
plough into
rest on your laurels
out in force
cover for someone
out of the woods
for all practical purposes
beyond the pale
potluck
start afresh
put your foot down
put your money where your mouth is
song and dance
make the grade
better late than never
dirt cheap
shake things up
full of oneself
pull punches
Achilles' heel
go easy on
give something away
year in year out
the sky is the limit
run out of steam
have second thoughts
chicken out
ease off
pull out all the stops
throw someone under the bus
movers and shakers
talk to me
through thick and thin
whet your appetite
have your hands full
for all the world
give credence to
sit on the fence
talk someone into something
test the waters
come home to roost
fight tooth and nail
change of pace
laugh it off
crash and burn
in a fashion
level best
buck up
screw you
one fell swoop
rear its ugly head
at the back of your mind
feel the pinch
turn the other cheek
scope out
happy-go-lucky
sixth sense
in the running
take the cake
balance the books
no end of
do time
face down
by dint of
surf the net
heart and soul of
to breathe your last
labour of love
pull for
cakewalk
in the driver's seat
pull yourself together
draw away
old man
knee-jerk reaction
fall out of favor
on a roll
off the beaten path
on good terms
on someone's back
smooth sailing
the final straw
it's early days
on the point of
make a mess of
play (the) devil's advocate
bottle up
pass the buck
get on your nerves
third-rate
make a killing
pick a fight
tough call
bad blood
free rein
no strings attached
wing it
toe the line
fork over
get your foot in the door
by word of mouth
come to nothing
warts and all
when push comes to shove
eleventh hour
can't even begin to
give it your best shot
greenlight
in cahoots
win hands down
take a leaf out of someone's book
out of the loop
up to par
a close call
flip out
of your own free will
have the last word
keep a low profile
at loggerheads
wallflower
get the message
rough and tumble
talk someone out of something
at all hours
hands-off
like clockwork
lose your cool
go against the grain
kill time
now or never
put your feet up
play second fiddle
sweep under the carpet
to put words in(to) someone's mouth
daily grind
hedge your bets
open book
in(to) the bargain
between life and death
pipe up
cut to the chase
grey matter
not your cup of tea
full tilt
have a handle on
clean up your act
bone of contention
kith and kin
put your mind to it
spread like wildfire
snail mail
leave someone for dead
rub the wrong way
can't begin to
reel off
bite your tongue
throw a party
cry wolf
muddy the waters
go belly up
sit up and take notice
in season
lay low
ripe old age
go the distance
face the music
sing the praises of
strike up a conversation
catch someone out
turn your life around
in your element
on the rocks
get wind of
fair and square
compare notes
punch in
above board
hit or miss
in the cards
thick and fast
pass muster
the nuts and bolts
jack of all trades
come round to
run riot
half the battle
head and shoulders above
in a pinch
a raw deal
ask for trouble
make a dent in
by degrees
come out of the closet
wash your hands of
what say
pony up
on the off chance
turn back the clock
you have got to be kidding
top dollar
cut it out
crux of the matter
take a backseat
bring into line
old hat
an arm and a leg
rough it
stand corrected
crocodile tears
out of season
hit rock bottom
nix
pound out
answer to
bite the dust
err on the side of caution
hammer home
blow something out of (all) proportion
month after month
to all intents and purposes
play-by-play
serve someone right
think out of the box
work like a charm
pie in the sky
have a penchant for
sick to death
creep someone out
dead in the water
weather the storm
have a change of heart
plug away
bits and bobs
get on it
go ballistic
behind the times
lick your lips
hold your ground
on the fence
beats me
lose face
dog-eat-dog
on your own time
polish off
call someone's bluff
days are numbered
precious few
cloud judgement
leave someone/something in peace
hand to mouth
kettle of fish
let your hair down
pop off
see the light
from the word go
hit the spot
late in life
pull your weight
on the ropes
out of your league
hitch a ride
in someone's time of need
keep your eyes peeled
path of least resistance
the upshot of
son of a bitch
What's your point?
go off the rails
kept in the dark
suit yourself
race against time
fine and dandy
bend the rules
crow about
get your own way
so much the better
piece of cake
shake down
sit tight
cracked up to be
have skin in the game
not cracked up to be
cover your tracks
fat cat
a let down
hard to swallow
pin your hopes on
up to no good
actions speak louder than words
crunch time
catch someone off guard
Here we go.
take a breather
dead set
time is money
back-up plan
on someone's case
take kindly to
box in
by a mile
creature comforts
stick your neck out
black and blue
swallow your pride
not by any means
skip out
Holy cow!
stand on your own two feet
left out in the cold
on the nose
split hairs
teething problems
that's all there is to it
mention in passing
nod off
tide someone over
in the course of time
all ears
think a lot of
look sharp
leaf through
rip into
straight and narrow
scare the hell out of
forbidden fruit
scrape together
bottom of the barrel
odds and ends
tricks of the trade
fall through the cracks
go to the dogs
in the doldrums
labor of love
dime a dozen
garden variety
have a heart
beat around the bush
farm out
a grey area
acid test
hissy fit
have the last laugh
blue ribbon
break ground
go places
make an example of
tit for tat
to sell someone or something short
take somebody under your wing
chalk out
hit the jackpot
carry the day
for all I care
hold forth
the time is ripe
bed of roses
once in a blue moon
make a big deal out of
put all your eggs in one basket
quick and dirty
tick off people
make no bones (about)
let off steam
cut a deal
go to your head
time is of the essence
wide of the mark
What gives?
put your best foot forward
tongue-tied
carry the ball
cream of the crop
in two minds
knuckle down
muck around
storm off
floored
lone wolf
draw interest
past your/its prime
take the liberty of
inside track
snap to it
hand-me-down
hold your tongue
laugh all the way to the bank
touch-and-go
couch potato
step on someone's toes
take it in stride
throw caution to the wind
under somone's thumb
hard to miss
in the wrong place at the wrong time
cut someone some slack
with bated breath
in stitches
show of hands
make small talk
play on words
hit your stride
punch out
touch base
up the ante
hang back
get a head start
pop the question
sink or swim
keep your feet on the ground
smack in the middle
stay with it
cut both ways
make your blood boil
in the nick of time
join the club
lay eyes on
lie through your teeth
burning question
plain sailing
ways and means of
last ditch effort
stuck in a rut
nothing to write home about
see the writing on the wall
full blast
get hitched
on second thought
come unstuck
every which way
go through hell
a leg to stand on
final nail in the coffin
lose your head
at a standstill
Give it a rest!
raise the stakes
flash in the pan
have a falling out
jumping off point
that is more like it
back in the saddle
buckle down
pressed for time
sweep someone off their feet
thank your lucky stars
down pat
get cracking
get cracking
home in on
in over your head
within an inch of
a drop in the bucket
hands are tied
blow-by-blow
fall flat on your face
preach to the choir
run scared
flat-footed
miles away
year in, year out
lie low
much ado about nothing
strong language
play it by ear
pay through the nose
turn up the heat
have a fit
pile in
fire on all cylinders
hanky panky
move with the times
save someone's skin
sitting pretty
fight a losing battle
cut ties
finishing touch
in safe hands
cast the first stone
give up the ghost
not hold a candle to
cut-and-dried
(to be) green
rhyme or reason
eat your words
give someone a headache
whole hog
clean bill of health
do a double take
under the weather
butt in
on short notice
set your mind to it
kangaroo court
blowhard
hash out
worth your weight in gold
salt of the earth
catch someone by surprise
a drop in the ocean
custom-built
have on file
keep (someone) in line
on your own accord
playing with fire
pound of flesh
talked out of
true blue
have it made
left in the dark
sweep under the rug
take your hat off to
make a long story short
fly-by-night
ill-gotten gains
Take a hike!
an uphill struggle
make a bg deal about
set someone straight
it wouldn't hurt
think better of
have your cake and eat it too
know the score
smell a rat
at first blush
at the crack of dawn
go-getter
lock horns
outside chance
act of faith
blow the whistle on
go with your gut
in a huff
sleep on it
to die for
caught in the crossfire
cut the mustard
on the ball
fat chance
hook, line and sinker
put two and two together
boiling point
give to understand
in so many words
kiss of death
pluck up your courage
go pear-shaped
washed up
asleep at the wheel
buttonhole someone
out of the running
when the chips are down
the moment of truth
too much of a good thing
glass-half-full
set eyes on
comes with the territory
keel over
kill two birds with one stone
see the last of
close-minded
go up in smoke
hate someone's guts
up to your neck
and something to spare
brand spanking new
go mental
hit a nerve
not by a long shot
the game is up
leave someone hanging
the whole shebang
walk all over
string someone along
in a bind
steal someone's thunder
on last legs
sacred cow
swing into action
take a page from
for keeps
I'll be damned!
bark up the wrong tree
chew out
in the pink
make a go of
pull the wool over someone's eyes
see through someone
start the ball rolling
break the back of
cheapskate
full steam ahead
go over someone's head
know the drill
rusty
square meal
baptism of fire
been had
keep up with the Joneses
plow into
under a cloud
x-rated
mend your ways
out of kilter
duck out
be man enough
chapter and verse
muck about
the odds are stacked against you
a rip-off
gray matter
hit close to home
run into the ground
take a swing at
turn the clock back
make a beeline for
draw a blank
grasp at straws
learn by heart
put the cart before the horse
thick-skinned
a wide berth
down and out
down the tubes
stretch a point
dyed-in-the-wool
slip through your fingers
stand out in a/the crowd
take someone under your wing
week in and week out
the jury is out
thumb through
tickle someone's fancy
fits and starts
think out loud
move heaven and earth
when in Rome, (do as the Romans do)
have your heart set on
play hardball
sell like hotcakes
show your true colors
on the same wavelength
twiddle your thumbs
work your butt off
at a loss for words
security blanket
take a stab at
tear your hair out
hit below the belt
a thorn in your side
see stars
clutch at straws
gut reaction
on the dot
stick your nose into
word by word
knock it off
skip school
out cold
play fast and loose
poker face
more than you bargained for
out of circulation
year in and year out
the black sheep
thumb your nose at
trust your gut
a sad state of affairs
ear to the ground
hard-boiled
preach to the converted
dog eared
chomp at the bit
pull a stunt
upper crust
wax and wane
get rolling
get the lay of the land
pig out
sparks fly
pull the trigger
regain composure
get the sack
stoop to someone's level
cold feet
hand in glove
shake someone up
odd one out
pain in the neck
happy camper
catch someone's fancy
give the game away
cook the books
throw a fit
hard-hearted
hold down a job
at each other's throats
get your goat
seeing is believing
come short
ride roughshod over
make a big deal of
meet halfway
on the take
in shape
play your cards right
when the dust settles
a white elephant
get out from under
speak the same language
a sore point
chew over
go around in circles
lay down the law
goof off
clam up
clip their wings
come out of your shell
cabin fever
give someone a ring
old hand
sever ties
slip through the cracks
up to snuff
meet your maker
on the wrong track
put your heart and soul into
look for trouble
party animal
a fair shake
give a head start
kick the bucket
sure bet
through word of mouth
put your mind at ease
have a way with
by hook or by crook
second wind
take it lying down
turn a deaf ear
go for broke
say something to someone's face
water under the bridge
an old flame
closed-minded
cover a lot of ground
put your heads together
short-handed
turn to your advantage
with flying colors
bite the hand that feeds you
cash and carry
chatterbox
often as not
troubled waters
wear on someone
monkey with
stick out like a sore thumb
the weight of the world
a sorry state of affairs
the straw that broke the camel's back
clue someone in
hold at bay
land on your feet
leave high and dry
on your toes
rotten to the core
green with envy
hell to pay
pay the piper
egg on your face
walk a mile in someone's shoes
what's done is done
bring off
fight fire with fire
change with the times
have a head start
move the goalposts
fall off the wagon
get off your high horse
in one breath
kick someone off something
pig
the shoe is on the other foot
ill at ease
talk shop
butterflies in your stomach
dog days (of summer)
down in the dumps
floor it
knock someone's socks off
cotton on to
hen party
in someone's hour of need
wave of the future
a pretty penny
drop dead gorgeous
wear your heart on your sleeve
hold the fort
skeleton(s) in the/your closet
bored to death
get a move on
one little bit
take the bull by the horns
dolled up
lock, stock and barrel
push your luck
shot through with
off-the-rack
pick someone's brain
pull a fast one
lose your nerve
never in a million years
go cold turkey
keep up appearances
no love lost
grunt work
on an even keel
no sweat
take someone to the cleaners
touch a nerve
beside yourself with
Midas touch
roll with the punches
bonehead
a good sport
bet your bottom dollar
cold comfort
hanging over your head
a shot in the arm
bite off more than you can chew
by the skin of your teeth
go ape
go round in circles
let the cat out of the bag
a fly on the wall
take a dump
on the case
throw your hat in(to) the ring
to the nth degree
get the green light
mark time
not let someone or something get you down
on the watch
under the hammer
wine and dine
no dice
a question of time
back against the wall
that's on us
flavour of the month
goof around
step on it
go to pieces
have an axe to grind
hot and bothered
grin and bear it
over the hill
the gift of (the) gab
twist someone's arm
kicking around somewhere
take with a grain of salt
cut and run
emotional roller coaster
have your act together
hear out
bring up the rear
put down roots
blow your own trumpet
calm before the storm
eat your heart out
run ragged
long in the tooth
on cloud nine
a taste of your own medicine
foam at the mouth
fool's paradise
rain on your parade
run the gauntlet
slow burn
(be) a goner
by a country mile
fiddle around with
have to hand it to someone
Get off someone's back!
make short work of
take on faith
take the floor
give someone short shrift
off and running
smack dab in the middle
the whole nine yards
look in on
catch someone in the act
cut a long story short
for all the world to see
all worked up
dollar for dollar
drown your sorrows
in someone's blood
more than meets the eye
bigwig
cap in hand
dig in your heels
hand over fist
raise hell
slip your mind
count chickens (before they hatch)
not in the same league
spitting image
work the system
put your mind at rest
pull someone's leg
save someone's bacon
think well of
a kick in the teeth
out in droves
as the crow flies
bigger fish to fry
hit the big time
keep your head above water
loan shark
put on a brave face
dead-end job
in a fix
keep up with the times
up to youe eyeballs
act the part
come to naught
dead giveaway
full speed ahead
pour your heart out
a feather in your cap
come to grief
feast your eyes on
keep your chin up
love handles
out of your element
the pot calling the kettle black
horse around
new lease on life
of age
strapped for cash
take a leaf from
busybody
devil-may-care
dig your own grave
back into the swing of things
bring home the bacon
sleep like a baby
bury the hatchet
go through channels
sight unseen
turn back time
butter up
leave in the lurch
wild goose chase
made for each other
pick holes in
right under your nose
take after
turn your stomach
hot under the collar
I bet
like there's no tomorrow
make your skin crawl
money to burn
scrape up
strike a nerve
every Tom, Dick and Harry
simmer down
stretch the truth
bee's knees
blow off steam
give someone a piece of your mind
go back a long way
shoot from the hip
dig your heels in
sitting duck
wild about
pink slip
carrot and stick
ham it up
give any thought to
make a run for it
never had it so good
pay a compliment
play by ear
pull a trick
(the) call of nature
in a manner of speaking
go off on a tangent
hit the roof
right side up
the die is cast
find it in your heart
wear many hats
back to the wall
fly off the handle
play the waiting game
in your own little world
pig-headed
just what the doctor ordered
pull strings
run roughshod over
slip through the net
your own flesh and blood
fly in the ointment
turn over a new leaf
crack the whip
diamond in the rough
have your eye on something
rack your brain
shoot the breeze
until the cows come home
every trick in the book
in a world of your own
keep your spirits up
method to your madness
clock out
crack a joke
rings a bell
upset the applecart
blow your lid
the long and short of it
eat humble pie
square away
carved in stone
charmed life
daylight robbery
take a gander
get the short end of the stick
give someone the creeps
heart of stone
if push comes to shove
lap of luxury
odd man out
on tenterhooks
take a page out of someone's book
sink to someone's level
carry the can
feel blue
pass the torch
run rings around
withstand the test of time
hold with something
lose your touch
more than you can shake a stick at
sitting on top of the world
walk on eggshells
a bitter pill to swallow
get straight to the point
wipe the slate clean
burn the midnight oil
pull the rug out
economical with the truth
paper over the cracks
at the end of your rope
off to a flying start
ride out the storm
call the tune
work your socks off
a hang-up
bet the farm
get it out of your system
a needle in a haystack
hit it big
let bygones be bygones
slap together
the ball is in your court
throw down the gauntlet
break your word
meat and potatoes
Oh Jesus
on the up and up
windbag
lead someone by the nose
enough to go around
from all accounts
glass-half-empty
vanish into thin air
have time on your side
set the ball rolling
show someone the ropes
stir crazy
time is on your side
a thorn in your flesh
hard put to
catch wind of
fine tooth comb
knock together
scream bloody murder
separate the wheat from the chaff
a kick in the pants
walk right into
waste your breath
after all is said and done
burn your bridges
come a cropper
hold your horses
remain in touch
strange bedfellows
take the biscuit
hit the sack
cross swords
get it off your chest
just desserts
piece of the pie
without a clue
after a fashion
dead duck
try your patience
a bolt from the blue
big fish
have the final word
monkey business
take someone down
out of shape
out to lunch
put plainly
make it worth your while
steal the limelight
walk off the job
battle of wills
go postal
puppy love
a sore spot
flog a dead horse
go to seed
keep your wits about you
nuts about
at cross purposes
have someone's word
nerves of steel
put out to pasture
blow hot and cold
cut your teeth on
draw fire
old-boy(s) network
save for a rainy day
the apple of your eye
steal the spotlight
stick in your craw
dressed to the nines
go down fighting
steal a march
be seeing you
kiss and make up
nose around
not lift a finger
toot your own horn
bust a gut
on the wagon
ear-splitting
highway robbery
over a barrel
swan around
token gesture
a word to the wise
in a pickle
take the liberty to
throw for a loop
drag your heels
give someone hell
warm the bench
hem and haw
learn by rote
make tracks
make your mouth water
make a nuisance of yourself
throw good money after bad
big spender
bite your nails
die laughing
off your rocker
put on ice
have a lot on your plate
made-to-order
paint the town
you must be kidding
chin wag
fishy
have a chip on your shoulder
leave well enough alone
ride shotgun
tough as nails
get out of jail free card
pull something together
spit in the face of
tight-fisted
wolf in sheep's clothing
a gray area
leave a bad taste in your mouth
light a fire under
beauty sleep
hightail it
make my day
on the level
put in an appearance
the coast is clear
throw the book at
a whale of a time
beat someone to the punch
dress the part
wimp
a loose end
give someone a run for their money
a dirty look
blow your top
just for once
strike it rich
watch your step
wheel and deal
a hard act to follow
equal to the task
in a jam
in the flesh
fuddy-duddy
rob Peter to pay Paul
rub elbows with
think the world of
turn your nose up at
hit a snag
hold up your end
rake someone over the coals
tighten your belt
castles in the air
hear the last of
jockey for position
get off someone's back
in the worst way
new ball game
pound the pavement
weasel out
chicken feed
handy-dandy
have a green thumb
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
race against the clock
roll out the red carpet
too many cooks spoil the broth
too many cooks spoil the stew
put your foot in your mouth
shoot your mouth off
soft-hearted
speak out of turn
at the end of your tether
beggars can't be choosers
clown around
cut off your nose to spite your face
pillar of strength
vent your spleen
without batting an eyelid
donkey's years
just deserts
parting of the ways
run circles around
stack the deck
the wrong side of the tracks
get the wrong end of the stick
cross the Rubicon
go to pot
go to bat for
muck around with
take one day at a time
welcome to the club
big cheese
go to hell in a handbasket
read the riot act
run a fever
take liberties with
You said it!
dwell on the past
snowball's chance in hell
take the wind out of someone's sails
up to your ears
a matter of life or death
under the gun
back at square one
like it or lump it
straight from the horse's mouth
take each day as it comes
hair's breadth
feather your nest
get up on the wrong side of the bed
plain as day
salt away
wear out your welcome
in high gear
not have a leg to stand on
of two minds
run around in circles
talk sense into
wear the pants
blow up at
in the bank
million miles away
have (some) time to kill
leave someone out in the cold
not going to fly
over your head
take a shine to
be out of favor
get it into your head
put your heart into
give someone the cold shoulder
in the right
think outside the square
have your feet on the ground
lend an ear
the real McCoy
a tough nut to crack
get it in the neck
make a mountain out of a molehill
on the warpath
out of whole cloth
pull yourself up by your bootstraps
a heart-to-heart
bring to a head
hot off the press
Johnny-come-lately
old boys' club
on the tip of your tongue
too big for your boots
whip into shape
get a jump on
get into your stride
get the axe
make a hash of
run a tight ship
there's no time like the present
all or none
bored to tears
long time, no see
out in large numbers
pull up your socks
get the last word
look down your nose at
on a first name basis
Get lost!
quake in your boots
tower of strength
come again
throw in with
every cloud has a silver lining
keep your eye on the ball
trial by fire
a shot in the dark
a slip of the tongue
leave someone holding the bag
make a meal of
not in a million years
come to a grinding halt
descend to someone's level
eat crow
nip and tuck
dribs and drabs
have the floor
have your head in the clouds
meet a deadline
muck about with
water off a duck's back
champ at the bit
come apart at the seams
rain check
tickled pink
ace in the hole
live out of a suitcase
the buck stops here
cool your heels
hen night
know the ropes
like a house on fire
lose your shirt
stand pat
Take a walk!
beat a hasty retreat
drop a bombshell
flavor of the month
go out on the town
catch someone red-handed
clear as mud
full of beans
raining cats and dogs
act your age
affair of the heart
all kidding aside
eat dirt
first crack at
have a quiet word with
jump out of your skin
slow on the uptake
take the fifth
cry over spilt milk
play hooky
take a leak
take your lumps
bird's eye view
bull in a china shop
dressed to kill
end on a high note
strike a bargain
cheesed off
make a stink
shipshape
take a fancy to
lily-livered
ratbag
Beat it!
have a leg up
hear it through the grapevine
on the button
put the kibosh on
get in your head
give someone to understand
the boys in blue
back-handed compliment
Hobson's choice
like a fish out of water
salad days
sit up with someone
wet behind the ears
live high on the hog
that will be the day
at death's door
as old as the hills
at your wit's end
get inside your head
treat with kid gloves
end on a positive note
hit the ceiling
nothing to sneeze at
a freak-out
cloud the issue
psych up
slim pickings
throw someone a bone
tough act to follow
a close shave
born with a silver spoon in your mouth
let sleeping dogs lie
lose favor
monkey around
shake in your boots
tie up loose ends
to rule
hang someone out to dry
not know someone from Adam
the jig is up
to all appearances
a white lie
henpecked
cramp someone's style
it's on me
keep your hand in
lick your chops
on the house
work your tail off
burn the candle at both ends
have your eye on someone
heart isn't in
hold fire
hold the purse strings
on pins and needles
small potatoes
bean counter
drive into the ground
have a gander
in the doghouse
keep your nose clean
method in your madness
take a gander
take your medicine
will never fly
wimp out
a smart cookie
caught between a rock and a hard place
go flat out
great minds think alike
legal eagle
run a temperature
at a loose end
druthers
maintain a low profile
put on an act
ballpark figure
by all appearances
die of a broken heart
Dutch courage
hard as nails
red-letter day
set in concrete
kiss up to
skeleton(s) in the/your cupboard
talk turkey
whistle in the dark
ace up your sleeve
fine-toothed comb
free as a bird
get it through your head
come from far and wide
fluff your lines
Greek to me
on the blink
power behind the throne
see someone home
the ABCs of
yellow-bellied
control the purse strings
down to brass tacks
hopping mad
keep the ball rolling
life of Riley
down for the count
get on in years
monkey about
cool as a cucumber
donkey work
mad about
pile out
read the writing on the wall
swing for the fences
the long and the short of it
hush money
pour your heart and soul into
scare the pants off someone
sell a bill of goods
set your teeth on edge
shake a leg
the honeymoon is over
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
quick off the mark
a man of his word
a pig in a poke
at a pinch
bawl out
kick a ball around
neck on the line
smell fishy
walk on air
beat a path to someone's door
dog tired
everything but the kitchen sink
pull rank
put the squeeze on
save your breath
irons in the fire
meet your Waterloo
right as rain
save someone's neck
score to settle
time heals all wounds
a yes-man
agree to differ
carry through with
Christ
fall apart at the seams
keep your temper
put on airs
advanced in years
cut class
keep your eyes on the prize
out for blood
scared out of your wits
above your pay grade
damn with faint praise
full of hot air
get clear of
knuckle under
without batting an eye
a bad egg
all joking aside
back the wrong horse
beat the traffic
caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
jump down someone's throat
keep at arm's length
scrape the surface
strike while the iron is hot
turn your mind to it
bang your head against a brick wall
go in one ear and out the other
look a gift horse in the mouth
more than one way to skin a cat
on your own free will
put it in a nutshell
came out wrong
drive a hard bargain
give someone a buzz
Heath Robinson
here today, gone tomorrow
hit the bottle
summon up your courage
take the gloves off
that ship has sailed
time marches on
behind the eight ball
checkered past
fill the bill
twist the knife
up to the mark
a sight for sore eyes
crank
etched in stone
pushed for time
the penny drops
ante up
beat the clock
bush-league
come unglued
have a bone to pick with
there's no time to lose
bring to heel
feel like a million bucks
fit as a fiddle
hit pay dirt
roll over in your grave
to cash in your chips
a hard pill to swallow
easy come, easy go
keep your nose to the grindstone
kick someone around
look alive
pardon my French
put your nose to the grindstone
the gloves are off
a mile a minute
blow a gasket
climb the walls
fly the coop
give someone the willies
on again, off again
haul someone over the coals
make a fuss over
a backroom deal
bend someone's ear
fall from favor
kick up a stink
lay your cards on the table
poke your nose into
put under the microscope
turn on the heat
until you are blue in the face
have one foot in the grave
up to your eyes
sow your wild oats
take someone for a ride
bite your head off
do a good turn
go down swinging
like gangbusters
shake like a leaf
stark raving mad
fiddle about with
get on your soapbox
keyed up
spoiling for a fight
turn back the hands of time
a cold day in hell
change horses
hat in hand
have green fingers
hit the hay
in the blood
lead up the garden path
line of least resistance
once the dust settles
put your two cents worth in
teething troubles
albatross around your neck
brown-nose
one for the road
shoot for the moon
sound someone out
(be) curtains for
ear-piercing
get in your own way
get on the bandwagon
jack up the price
back to the grind
blow a fuse
clap eyes on
mum's the word
no spring chicken
that's all she wrote
a chip off the old block
a hard nut to crack
get the runaround
hammer out a deal
have eyes on
no great shakes
raise a stink
take a crap
hold up your end of the bargain
a laugh a minute
do an about face
duck soup
flat as a pancake
gild the lily
have a good thing going
in seventh heaven
kit and caboodle
know what's what
leap to conclusions
raise a fuss
wait on hand and foot
a target on someone's back
dead to the world
give no quarter
guilty as sin
have a high time
in high dudgeon
to throw the first stone
beat the pants off
blow your own horn
feast or famine
get off on the wrong foot
move up in the world
talk someone's ear off
ten-a-penny
turn over in your grave
get-up-and-go
kick up your heels
not know if you are coming or going
on the fritz
put your cards on the table
You can say that again!
a peach
clean as a whistle
mad as a hatter
make eyes at
put you in the picture
down the gurgler
have a brush with
lay it on thick
put a sock in it
baptism by fire
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
go into orbit
I'm afraid so.
that's the way the cookie crumbles
whoop it up
for the birds
get your ducks in a row
make a meal out of
not long for this world
pinch pennies
pitch a fit
conniption (fit)
go off half cocked
hit the trail
keep your ears open
muck with
pure as the driven snow
sleep like a log
square deal
stick in your throat
talk in circles
thick as thieves
to take the words out of someone's mouth
turn around and leave
wear the trousers
a month of Sundays
a put-down
no skin off my nose
work yourself up to
knock you dead
not have a prayer
pull your own weight
under the wire
hunt and peck
leave a sinking ship
put the screws to/on
swan about
get a word in edgewise
millstone around your neck
out of a jam
spic and span
fresh as a daisy
look out for number one
separate the men from the boys
walk it off
break your neck
not half bad
pull up stakes
slow off the mark
cry over spilled milk
drink like a fish
grab the bull by the horns
hear it on the grapevine
keep your pants on
raise a ruckus
rub salt into the wound
sweat blood
a bundle of nerves
a dose of your own medicine
asleep at the switch
at sixes and sevens
flip your lid
have your day in the sun
keep the home fires burning
rub salt in the wound
wait for the other shoe to drop
a come on
here goes nothing
in for a penny, in for a pound
so much the worse
stick in the mud
grouse about
set your mind at ease
take a hand in
work your fingers to the bone
a high-flyer
a tall tale
hit the head
keep a stiff upper lip
leave someone holding the baby
only have eyes for
call it even
man of means
out for the count
down cold
excuse my French
half a mind to
hang fire
have a bee in your bonnet
have a foot in both camps
too big for your britches
a slave driver
all the marbles
ask for the moon
in a snit
pushing up daisies
put one over on
raise Cain
strike it lucky
work someone into the ground
a ghost of a chance
count your lucky stars
go fly a kite
make a pit stop
on the horns of a dilemma
rush to conclusions
start off on the right foot
as plain as the nose on your face
by fair means or foul
have a lump in your throat
share and share alike
talk through your hat
teach someone the ropes
ugly as sin
break your back
build to order
low on the totem pole
take down a peg
enough to go round
snow job
color outside the lines
colour outside the lines
drop the hammer
hop to it
keep your end of the bargain
lead down the garden path
plead the fifth
as easy as ABC
fourth-rate
give an ear
hard-shelled
he who pays the piper calls the tune
not born yesterday
put under a microscope
see the handwriting on the wall
the boot is on the other foot
a bolt out of the blue
casual Friday
odds and sods
out like a light
play your cards well
put on your thinking cap
wake up on the wrong side of the bed
a kick in the guts
hop on the bandwagon
run rings round
take a pee
carry through on
five o'clock shadow
from soup to nuts
get your wires crossed
go up in the world
shape up or ship out
a brown-noser
come to a bad end
get off on the right foot
go the way of all flesh
have your heart in your mouth
horse sense
penny wise and pound foolish
quiet as a mouse
(as) pretty as a picture
a heel
boot up your computer
carry your own weight
feel out of sorts
get a word in edgeways
raise the ante
set your mind at rest
after the dust settles
ear candy
give someone the rundown
make your toes curl
money for old rope
pick a quarrel
talk out of turn
time is a great healer
a black look
happy as a clam
out of your tree
quick on the draw
regular as clockwork
eager beaver
put out feelers
wrap someone around your little finger
at loose ends
come by something honestly
feel like a million dollars
liquid courage
quick on the uptake
start off on the wrong foot
can't believe your eyes
cry uncle
go over big
pull wires
screw up your courage
tiger by the tail
a cold fish
chicken scratch
kick at the can
more's the pity
soft-pedal
trade upon
live by your wits
make a clean breast of
a bunch of baloney
bring up short
come up roses
down in the mouth
give the last word
horse of a different color
make free with
see a man about a dog
smoke like a chimney
go out of favor
lower the boom
on the lines of
regain your feet
sling your hook
What are you waiting for? Chirstmas?
without batting an eyelash
a weight off your shoulders
beat hollow
keep it under your hat
make out like a bandit
penny-ante
pick to pieces
separate the sheep from the goats
swift and sure
when hell freezes over
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
get the show on the road
handle with kid gloves
stuffed shirt
wash your dirty linen in public
a little bird told me
as simple as ABC
beat the bushes
forty winks
get a buzz out of
without any strings attached
blow your stack
bluestocking
carrot on a stick
clear sailing
go off at a tangent
keep your shirt on
name is mud
nose about
little love lost
month in month out
penny pincher
a penny for your thoughts
blow your lines
Get off someone's case!
get this show on the road
knock into shape
ride the bench
soft in the head
top banana
a rotten egg
all thumbs
give someone the shirt off your back
ear-popping
spot on the money
air your dirty laundry in public
beauty rest
gut response
monkey around with
strike oil
watch your butt
wet blanket
abandon a sinking ship
as busy as a bee
eat like a bird
frosting on the cake
grind to a standstill
make a deadline
say uncle
take the ball and run with it
that makes two of us
the whole ball of wax
the whole shooting match
wish for the moon
a little birdie told me
card shark
desert a shinking ship
hang a right
out of a mess
packed in like sardines
a day late and a dollar short
a load of baloney
cook your goose
have two strikes against
turn the air blue
until hell freezes over
a tall story
Bob's your uncle!
bust your hump
hold your temper
pick an argument
run round in circles
stretch the rules
bet on the wrong horse
come straight to the point
cut a rug
fit to be tied
give the final word
green around the gills
keep both feet on the ground
like two peas in a pod
live up to your end of the bargain
not raise a finger
stir up a hornets nest
work through channels
bet your boots
nosey parker
turn the knife
at one another's throats
cry for the moon
give an arm and a leg
happy as a lark
have to lump it
hurl
live high off the hog
lull before the storm
memory like a sieve
mind your Ps and Qs
not by a long chalk
as honest as the day is long
come to no good
give yourself airs
go easy with
not enough room to swing a cat
put on a brave front
put up a brave front
quick on the trigger
rolling in dough
sleep like the dead
you're telling me
bark is worse than their bite
get the lead out
in a black mood
put on a good face
run up the flagpole
Break a leg!
buy for a song
catch someone on the hop
get the final word
have a frog in your throat
make it snappy
pick up the ball and run with it
press your luck
switch horses
beyond your pay grade
catch someone off-balance
cloud the picture
French leave
get out of someone's hair
scut work
worm your way in
a finger in every pie
all over bar the shouting
get up in years
stack the cards
talk someone's head off
wear several hats
bats in the belfry
bring someone down a notch
carry your heart on your sleeve
fair to middling
hit you where you live
pin your faith on
sleep like a rock
think beyond the box
come up in the world
month in and month out
neck on the chopping block
put your tail between your legs
rip off the Bandaid®
rob the cradle
slip between the cracks
steaming mad
work the bugs out
zip your lip
a high-flier
take down a notch
tuck your tail between your legs
upon the heels of
beneath your breath
bring someone down a peg
come to an untimely end
dress down day
have two bites of the cherry
put up a brave face
strike a happy medium
thumb a ride
your eyes pop out of your head
blow your cool
hash over
have a high old time
I figured as much.
make the feathers fly
see a man about a horse
wash your dirty laundry in public
well begun is half done
all over but the shouting
can't make head or tail of it
cut two ways
free as the wind
full of baloney
full of the joys of spring
get a charge out of
go out on the razzle
lick into shape
read the handwriting on the wall
tickled to death
win by a nose
go jump in the lake
hold on to your hat
meet an untimely end
a bullseye on someone's back
a kick in the stomach
card sharp
chafe at the bit
come to heel
get in someone's hair
go jump in a lake
mind your step
nutty as a fruitcake
beat your head against a brick wall
beyond your depth
can't believe your ears
cash on the barrelhead
catch someone at a bad time
equal to the occasion
hang on to your hat
mad as a March hare
make your flesh crawl
not do by halves
put on the Ritz
run to seed
shoot the bull
stare daggers at
stick in your gullet
tire kicker
toss your hat in(to) the ring
wait for your ship to come in
wouldn't say boo to a goose
in a stew
keep your pecker up
knock down a peg
moaning Minnie
spit in the eye of
that's the way the ball bounces
tip the waiter
win by a whisker
your eyes are bigger than your stomach
air your dirty linen in public
beside the mark
cash on the nail
climb on the bandwagon
close-fisted
crack a book
crazy as a loon
cut a fine figure
fight a running battle
free as air
get along on a shoestring
get the bugs out
have a yellow streak
have both feet on the ground
let well enough alone
throw in the sponge
toe the mark
woman of means
a lot of baloney
an apple polisher
bat a thousand
below your breath
could eat a horse
get a buzz on
look like a drowned rat
make a pig's ear of
beat your own drum
free as the air
kick around somewhere
mind your own beeswax
route of least resistance
worth your weight in salt
beside the question
fit as a flea
like a house afire
mind like a steel trap
tremble like a leaf
a kick in the seat
a kick in the seat of the pants
a woman of her word
bang your own drum
catch someone at the wrong time
feeling in your bones
left-handed compliment
monkey about with
sleep like a stone
snap your head off
take a whiz
win by a hair
as busy as a beaver
cash on the barrel
drive someone up the wall
get along in years
give someone heck
lie down on the job
look daggers at
make your own bed
pull in your belt
put on a good front
water over the dam
a goof-off
come up smelling like roses
cut out the dead wood
ears turn red
get by on a shoestring
half a notion to
have a rare old time
make a hash out of
make fast work of
make the fur fly
turn up like a bad penny
yell bloody murder
clean up loose ends
get a bang out of
in someone's black books
knock your head against a brick wall
like a dog with two tails
look like something the cat dragged in
meet a bad end
mind like a sponge
pick and shovel work
put up a good front
skate close to the edge
twist someone around your little finger
wrap up loose ends
a fine state of affairs
bark is bigger than their bite
kick at the cat
lie like a dog
put up a good face
squashed in like sardines
cook the accounts
full of bologna
have a buzz on
have two bites of the apple
hit a happy medium
in the bat of an eye
kick around an idea
knock down a notch
make up the couch
mind like a sieve
muff your lines
quake like a leaf
quiet as a cat
rub someone's fur the wrong way
twist your rubber arm
wind someone around your little finger
clear up loose ends
cut your eyeteeth on
have a stormy brow
lay down on the job
send for a loop
sleep like a top
take your belt in a notch
toot your own whistle
wear a stormy brow
your eyes are bigger than your belly
A Bit Much
A Bite at The Cherry
A Busy Bee
A Cat Has Nine Lives
A Cat in Gloves Catches No Mice
A Cat Nap
A Cold Day In July
A Cold Fish
A Cut Above
A Cut Below
A Day Late And A Dollar Short
A Dog in The Manger
A Few Sandwiches Short Of A Picnic
A Good Deal
A Great Deal
A Guinea Pig
A Hair’s Breadth
A Home Bird
A Hundred And Ten Percent
A Lame Duck
A Leg Up
A Lemon
A Life Of Its Own
A Little Bird Told Me
A Little Bird Told Me
A Little from Column A, a Little from Column B
A Lone Wolf
A Lot on One’s Plate
A Million and One
A Notch Above
A Penny for Your Thoughts
A Penny Saved is A Penny Earned
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
A Plum Job
A Rare Bird
A Scaredy-Cat
A Second Bite At The Cherry
A Sight for Sore Eyes
A Sitting Duck
A Snowball’s Chance in Hell
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
A Stone’s Throw
A Storm in a Teacup
A Tall Order
A Week Is A Long Time In _____
About Time
About To
Above And Beyond
Above Board
Above The Law
Above The Salt
Above Water
Accident Of Birth
Accident Waiting To Happen
According To Hoyle
Ace In The Hole
Ace Up One’s Sleeve
Acid Test
Acknowledge The Corn
Acquired Taste
Across The Board
Across The Pond
Act High and Mighty
Act Of Congress
Act One’s Age
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Achilles’ Heel
Add Fuel To The Fire
Add Insult To Injury
Add Insult to Injury
After One’s Own Heart
After The Fact
After The Lord Mayor’s Show (UK)
Against The Clock
Against the Clock
Against The Grain
Against The Run Of Play
Age Before Beauty
Agree To Disagree
Agreement In Principle
Aha Moment
Ahead Of One’s Time
Ahead Of The Curve
Ahead Of The Curve
Ahead Of The Game
Air Rage
Airy Fairy
Albatross Around One’s Neck
Alive and Kicking
All Along
All And Sundry
All Bark And No Bite
All Bets Are Off
All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
All Ears
All Eyes And Ears
All Eyes Are On
All Fur Coat And No Knickers
All Hands on Deck
All Hat And No Cattle
All Hell Breaks Loose
All In A Day’s Work (Excl.)
All In Good Time
All in One Piece
All It’s Cracked Up To Be
All Mouth And No Trousers
All Over But The Shouting
All Over Hell’S Half Acre
All Over The Board
All Over The Map
All Over The Place
All Rights Reserved
All Roads Lead to Rome
All Set
All Sizzle And No Steak
All Talk and No Trousers
All Told
All That Jazz
All The Marbles
All The Rage
All the Rage
All The Same
All The Tea In China
All Things Being Equal
All Things Considered
All Thumbs
All Very Well
All Wet
Along The Lines Of
Amateur Hour
Amber Gambler
Amber Nectar
American Dream (The)
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
An Axe
An Early Bird
An Eye for an Eye
An Offer One Can’t Refuse
Ancient History
And All That
And Counting
And Change
And His Mother
And So Forth
And So On
And The Like
And Then Some
Another Nail In One’s Coffin
Answer Back
Ants In Your Pants
Any Port in a Storm
Any Tom, Dick or Harry
Angel’s Advocate
Angle For
Apple of One’s Eye
Apple of Someone’s Eye
Apples and Oranges
Apples and Oranges
Arm Candy
Armed to the Teeth
Around the Clock
As American as Apple Pie
As Far as I Can Throw (someone)
As Fit as A Fiddle
As Pale as A Ghost
As Pale as Death
As Poor as a Church Mouse
As Red as A Cherry
Asleep at the Wheel (Switch)
At Death’s Door
At Each Other’s Throats
At Loggerheads
At Loggerheads
At Sixes and Sevens
At the Drop of a Hat
At the Eleventh Hour
At the End of One’s Rope (Tether)
At the End of the Day
At Wit’s End
Babe In Arms
Babe In The Woods
Babe Magnet
Baby Blues
Baby Boomer
Babysitter Test
Back And Forth
Back At You
Back Burner (On The)
Back Forty
Back in the Day
Back Of Beyond
Back Office
Back on One’s Feet
Back to Square One
Back to Square One
Back to the Drawing Board
Back to the Salt Mine(s)
Back to the Salt Mines
Back the Wrong Horse
Backing and Filling
Backseat Driver
Backseat Driver
Bad Apple
Bad Blood
Bad Egg
Bad Taste In One’s Mouth
Bag of Tricks
Bail Out
Ball and Chain
Ballpark Figure
Banner Year
Bang for Your Buck
Bang for Your Buck
Bang One’s Head Against the Wall (Against a Brick Wall)
Baptism by Fire
Bar Fly (or Barfly)
Bare One’s Heart (Soul)
Bark Up the Wrong Tree
Basket Case
Bat/Play for Both Teams
Bat/Play for the Other Team
Batten Down the Hatches
Batten Down the Hatches
Be A Barrel of Laughs
Be A Cold Day In Hell
Be An Item
Be Footloose and Fancy-Free
Be Head Over Heels (In love)
Be in Seventh Heaven
Be in Two Minds (about something)
Be Like Chalk and Cheese
Be Lovey – Dovey
Be on the Mend
Be Snowed Under
Bean Counters
Bean Counters
Beat Around the Bush
Beat Someone To The Draw
Beat Someone to the Punch
Beat the Drum for (Something)
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
Bed of Roses
Bedroom Eyes
Bee in One’s Bonnet
Beggar Thy Neighbor
Behind the Eight (or 8) Ball
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Times
Bell the Cat
Bells And Whistles
Belly Laugh
Bend an Elbow
Best (Greatest) Thing Since Sliced Bread
Best of Both Worlds
Bet One’s Bottom Dollar (On Something)
Bet the Farm
Better late Than Never
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
Big Apple
Big Brother
Big Cheese
Big Deal
Big Fish
Big Picture
Big time
Birds of a Feather
Bird’s-Eye View
Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Bite the Bullet
Bite the Hand That Feeds You
Bitter Pill to Swallow
Black and White
Black Eye
Black Sheep
Black-and-Blue
Blank Check
Blind Date
Blinded by Love
Blood and Thunder
Blow Away the Cobwebs
Blow Hot and Cold
Blow Off Steam
Blow One’s Top
Blow One’s Stack
Blow the Cobwebs Away (or Out of Something)
Blow the Whistle
Blow Up
Blow Your Own Trumpet
Blue Blood (adj. blue-blooded)
Blue Eyed Boy
Blue Light Special
Bob’s Your Uncle
Bolt From the Blue
Bone Dry
Born on The Wrong Side of the Blanket
Borrow Trouble
Bottom of the Barrel
Boy Toy
Boys will be Boys
Brainstorm
Break a Leg
Break Out in A Cold Sweat
Break the Bank
Break The Ice
Break up/ Split up (With Somebody)
Bring Home the Bacon
Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight
Brush Under the Carpet
Bucket List
Bull in a China Shop
Bump in the Road
Bundle Up
Burn One’s Bridges
Burn the Candle at Both Ends
Burn the Candle at Both Ends
Burn the Midnight Oil
Burn the Midnight Oil
Bury (Hide) One’s Head In the Sand
Bury the Hatchet
Business as Usual
Busman’s Holiday (UK)
Busman’s Holiday
Busted Flush
Butter Wouldn’t Melt in (Someone’s)
Buy a Pig in a Poke
Buy Time
By a Whisker
By All Means
By Hook or by Crook
By the Skin of One’s Teeth
By Word of Mouth
Call a Spade a Spade
Call It a Day
Call It a Night
Call the Shots
Call the Tune
Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Can’t Swing A Dead Cat In (Place)
Carrot-and-Stick (Approach)
Carry a Torch (for)
Carry Coals To Newcastle
Carry the Can
Cash In One’s Chips
Cash-Strapped
Cast the First Stone
Castle in the Air
Cat Fight
Cat Got Your Tongue?
Cat on a hot tin roof
Cat-and-Mouse (adj.)
Catch One’s Death of Cold
Catch Some Rays
Catch Someone’s Eye
Catch-22
Cat’s Paw
Caught Red-Handed
Circle the Wagons
Claim to Fame
Clean Up Nicely
Clear the Air
Clip Someone’s Wings
Close, But No Cigar
Cock and Bull Story
Cock-A-Hoop
Cold Day in Hell
Come By Something Honestly
Come Clean
Come Hell or High Water
Come Out in the Wash
Come Out of the Closet
Come Out Swinging
Come Rain and Shine
Come to Grips With
Come to Terms With (Something)
Coming Down the Pike
Cook Someone’s Goose
Cook Up a Storm
Cooking Up a Storm
Cool as A Cucumber
Cool Cat
Cool Your Heels
Couch Potato
Crash a Party
Crickets
Cross to Bear
Crunch Time
Crunch the Numbers
Cry Over Spilt (USA
Cry Wolf (verb)
Cry Your Eyes Out
Cry Your Eyes Out
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Cut (Someone) To the Quick
Cut Corners
Cut It Fine
Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
Cut Someone Some Slack
Cut to the Chase
Cut the Gordian Knot
Cut the Mustard
Cut Your Teeth on Something
Cutting-Edge
Champagne taste on a beer budget
Change Horses in Midstream
Change of Heart
Change One’s Tune
Changing of the Guard
Chase Rainbows
Cheap Shot
Cherry-Pick
Cherry-Pick
Chew the Fat
Chickens Come Home To Roost
Child’s Play
Chill Out
Chin Music
Chin Up/ Keep Your Chin Up
Chip off the Old Block
Chomp (Champ) at the Bit
Chomp at the Bit
Chop Chop
Chop Shop
Chuck a Wobbly
Da Man (Slang)
Dance to Someone’s Tune
Dance with the Devil
Dark Horse
Darken Someone’s Door (Step)
Dead Ahead
Dead as the Dodo
Dead Eye
Dead Heat
Dead of Winter
Dead ringer
Dead Run
Dead Shot
Deep Pockets
Deliver the Goods
Devil’s Advocate
Dirty Look
Do 12-Ounce Curls
Dodge a Bullet
Doesn’t Amount to a Hill of Beans
Dog Days of the Summer
Dog in the Manger
Dog-and-Pony Show
Dog-Eat-Dog
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Double-Dip
Double-Edged Sword
Down in the Dumps
Down the Road
Drag One’s Feet (or Heels)
Drag Your Feet
Drain the Lizard
Draw a Blank
Draw a Line in the Sand
Draw a Line Under (Something)
Draw a Long Bow
Draw the Line
Dressed Up to the Nines
Drink the Kool-Aid
Drive a Hard Bargain
Drive a Hard Bargain
Drive a Wedge Between
Drive Someone Up the Wall
Drop a Line
Drop the Ball
Dry Run
Dutch Courage
Dutch Uncle
Dyed-In-The-Wool (adj.)
Eager beaver
Eagle-Eyed
Early Bird [noun or adjective]
Eat Crow
Eat Humble Pie
Eat Someone’s Lunch
Eat Your Heart Out!
Eighty-Six (v.)
Elephant in the Room
Elevator Music
Elevator Pitch
Eleventh Hour
Even Steven
Every Dog Has His (Its)
Every Man and His Dog
Every Man for Himself
Excused Boots
Face the Music
Face the Music
Fall for Something
Fall in Love with Somebody
Fall Off the Wagon
Fall on One’s Sword
Fall Prey to
Fancy Someone (British English)
Farther (On) Down the Road
Farther (On) Down the Road
Fashion-Forward
Fat Cat
Father Figure
Feast Your Eyes On
Feather in One’s Cap
Feather One’s (Own) Nest
Feather One’s Nest
Fed Up With
Feel Like a Million Dollars
Feel On Top of The World
Fell off a Truck
Fell off the Back of a Lorry
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Fifth Wheel
Fight Fire with Fire
Fight Like Cat and Dog
Find One’s Voice
Find Your Feet
Finger-Pointing
Finger-Pointing
Fire in the Belly
First In, Best Dressed
Fish for Compliments
Fish or Cut Bait (usually an exclamation)
Fish Out of Water
Five-Finger Discount
Flash in the Pan
Flat Broke
Flat Out Like a Lizard
Flesh and Blood
Flew the Coop
Flip-Flop (v. or n.)
Fly by the Seat of One’s Pants
Fly High
Fly Off The Handle
Fly off the Handle
Follow In Someone’s Footsteps (Tracks)
Follow Your Heart
Food for Thought
For a Song
For a Song
For Crying Out Loud (excl.)
For Xyz Reasons
Foul Play
Fourth Estate
Fox in the Henhouse (Chickenhouse)
Freak Out
French Leave
Freudian Slip
From Pillar to Post
From Scratch
From Soup to Nuts
From the Bottom of One’s Heart
FUBAR
Fu** (Or Screw) The Dog (Pooch)
Full Fathom Five
Full of the Joys of Spring
Game of Chicken
Get A Charley Horse
Get A Word In Edgewise
Get Along (with Someone)
Get Bent Out of Shape
Get Carried Away
Get In on the Ground Floor
Get in Shape
Get Off Scot Free
Get Off Scot Free
Get One’s Ducks in a Row
Get One’s Hands Dirty
Get Someone’s Goat
Get To Grips With
Get the Ball Rolling
Get the Picture
Get the Runaround
Get the Sack, Be Sacked
Get the Third Degree
Get Wind of
Get With the Program
Go Along (With)
Go Ape
Go Ballistic
Go Bananas
Go Bananas
Go Belly Up
Go Berserk
Go Bonkers
Go Cold Turkey
Go Down in Flames
Go Mental
Go Nuclear
Go Nuts
Go Off Half-Cocked
Go Off the Deep End
Go Off The Rails
Go Out on a Limb
Go Pear-Shaped
Go See a Man About a Dog
Go to the Dogs
Go to the Mattresses
Go the Extra Mile
Go Under the Knife
Go Viral
Go with the Flow
Grab (Take) the Bull by the Horns
Grasp (Grab) at Straws
Grease Monkey
Grease the Wheels
Greasy Spoon
Green Around the Gills
Green as Grass
Grind One’s Teeth
Guilty Pleasure
Guinea Pig
Give and Take
Give ’em Hell (often excl.)
Give Lip Service to
Give Lip Service
Give One’s Two Cents (That’s My Two Cents)
Give Someone a Holler
Give Someone a Piece of Your Mind
Give Someone a Run for Their Money
Give Someone an Earful
Give Someone the Cold Shoulder
Give Someone The Old Heave-Ho
Give Something a Whirl
Give the Green Light
Hail Mary (n. or adj.)
Hair of the Dog (That Bit You)
Hands are Tied
Hands Down
Hang It Up
Hang Tough
Hanging by a Thread
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hard Nut to Crack
Has the Cat Got Your Tongue?
Hat Trick
Hatchet Job
Haul Over the Coals
Have (one’s) head in the clouds
Have A Ball
Have a Bone to Pick (with Someone)
Have a Bone to Pick (with Someone)
Have a Chip on One’s Shoulder
Have a Dog in the Hunt (Fight, Race)
Have a Lead Foot
Have a Lot on One’s Plate
Have a Lot Riding On (Something)
Have a Nose for (Something)
Have a Screw Loose
Have a Tough Row to Hoe
Have A Whale of A Time
Have an Ace Up One’s Sleeve
Have Bigger Fish to Fry
Have Egg on Your Face
Have Foot-in-Mouth Disease
Have Hand of Aces/Hold All the Aces
Have It Out with Someone
Have One Foot in The Grave
Have One Over the Eight
Have One Too Many
Have One’s Cake and Eat It, Too
Have Skin in the Game
Have Something in the Bag
Have the Hots for (Somebody)
Have the Hots for Somebody
Have The Time of Your Life
Have the Time of Your Life
Have Your Nose in the Air
Have Your Say
Have Your Thumb Up Your Ass
He Who Laughs Last Laughs Best
He Would Put Legs Under A Chicken
Head (Go) South
Head and Shoulders Above
Head and Shoulders
Head Start
Heads Up (excl.)
Heads Up!
Heads Will Roll (Are Going to Roll)
Heads Will Roll (Are Going to Roll)
Hear (Something) Through the Grapevine
Heart and Soul
Heavens Open
Heavy Hitter
Helicopter Parenting
Hell for Leather
High as a Kite
High as a Kite
High as a Kite
Hightail It (Out of There)
Highways and Byways
Hit a Wall
Hit It Out of the Park
Hit the Books
Hit the Ground Running
Hit the Hay
Hit the Jackpot
Hit the Nail on the Head
Hit the Road
Hit the Roof
Hit the Roof
Hit the Sack
Hit the Spot
Hive Mind
Hobson’s Choice
Hold One’s Liquor
Hold One’s Peace
Hold the Phone
Hold the Phone
Hold Your Horses (generally excl.)
Home Away from Home
Home Truths
Honor System
Hot Mess
Hot on the Heels (of)
Hot on the Heels (of)
Hot Potato
I Wouldn’t Put It Past (Someone)
If It Had Been a Snake, It Would Have Bitten Me
If the Shoe Fits, Wear It
I’m All Ears
In a Fog
In a Heartbeat
In a Jam
In a New York Minute
In a Nutshell
In a Pickle
In a Rut
In Broad Daylight
In Clover
In For a Penny, In for a Pound
In Full Swing
In His Cups
In Hot Water
In One Fell Swoop
In One’s Element
In Someone’s Wheelhouse
In Touch
In the Blink of an Eye
In the Cards
In the Crosshairs (Cross Hairs)
In the Dark
In the Dark
In the Driver’s Seat
In the Hot Seat
In the Interim
In the Limelight, In the Spotlight
In the Long Run
In the Nick of Time
In the Pipeline
In the Red
In the Same Boat
In the Toilet
In the Works
Iron Out (Problems, Difficulties)
Is the Pope Catholic?
It Never Rains but It Pours
It Takes Two to Tango
It Takes Two to Tango
It Won’t Fly
Itchy Feet
It’s a Wash
It’s All Greek to Me
It’s No Skin off My (Your) Nose (Back)
It’s Not Over Till the Fat Lady Sings
It’s Not Rocket Science
I’ve Had It Up to Here
Jack of All Trades
Jam Session
Jim Crow
Join the Club (excl.)
Jump in with Both Feet
Jump on the Bandwagon
Jump on the Bandwagon
Jump the Gun
Jump the Shark
Jump the Track
Jump Through Hoops
Just Around the Corner
Just for the Record
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Kangaroo Court
Keep (Something) at Bay
Keep a Stiff Upper Lip
Keep an Eye On
Keep an Eye Peeled
Keep It Under Your Hat
Keep Someone at Arm’s Length
Keep Your Nose Clean
Keep Your Powder Dry
Keeping One’s Nose to the Grindstone
Kick Ass, Kick Butt
Kick the Bucket
Kick the Can Down the Road
Kill a Fly With an Elephant Gun
Kill Two Birds with One Stone
Kill Two Birds with One Stone
Kill the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
Kink in One’s Neck
King of the Hill
Kiss and Make Up
Kith and Kin
Knock on Wood; Touch Wood
Knock Some Sense Into
Knock Someone’s Socks Off
Knock Up
Knockout
Know (Something) Like the Back of One’s Hand
Larger Than Life
Last But Not Least
Laughter is the Best Medicine
Learn the Ropes
Leave Someone in the Lurch
Lend an Ear
Let Bygones Be Bygones
Let Bygones Be Bygones
Let Off Steam
Let One’s Hair Down
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let the Cat Out of the Bag
Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
Letter of the Law
Lick One’s Wounds
Life is A Bowl of Cherries
Light a Fire Under Someone
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Like a Kid in a Candy Store
Like a Moth to a Flame
Like Father, Like Son
Like Shooting
Like Taking Candy from a Baby
Like Two Peas in a Pod
Like The Cat That Got The Cream
Lion’s Den
Lion’s Share
Live Large
Living in Cloud Cuckooland
Living on Borrowed Time
Living Under a Rock
Loaded for Bear
Loan Shark
Lock Horns
Long Shot
Look the Other Way
Look What the Cat Dragged In
Loose Cannon
Lose It
Lose One’s Touch
Lose Touch
Lose the Thread
Love at First Sight
Love Rat
Love Someone With All of One’s Heart And Soul
Lower the Boom
Low-Hanging Fruit
Mad As A Box Of (Soapy) Frogs
Mad as A Hatter
Main Squeeze
Make a Break for It
Make a Mountain out of a Molehill
Make a Silk Purse out of a Sow’s Ear
Make Ends Meet
Make Hay (While the Sun Shines)
Make Love
Make Nice
Make One’s Mark
Make Someone’s Day
Make Waves
Man Cave
March to the Beat of Your Own Drum
Match Made in Heaven
May-December (adj.)
May-December Marriage
Me Time
Meeting of the Minds
Mend Fences
Mind One’s P’s and Q’s
Miss the Boat
Monday Morning Quarterback
Month of Sundays
More Fun Than A Barrel of Monkeys
Mother Nature
Move Heaven and Earth
Move the Needle
Move Up in the World
Movers and Shakers
Much Of A Muchness
Mum’s the Word
Music to My Ears
Mutton Dressed Up as Lamb
My Dogs Are Barking
My Old Man, My Old Lady
My Way or the Highway
Nail-Biter
Nailing Jelly/Jello/Pudding To A Wall/Tree
Neck and Neck
Neck of the Woods
Nest Egg
Never in A Million Years
Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
New Wrinkle
Nice Chunk of Change
Nickel and Dime
Nine Times Out of Ten
Nine-to-Five Job
Nip (Something) In The Bud
No Holds Barred (usually adj., often hyphenated)
No Love Lost Between
No Names, No Pack Drill
No Names, No Pack Drill
No Rhyme or Reason (to)
No Room to Swing A Cat
No Shit, Sherlock
No Tree Grows to the Sky
Not Cut Out for (Something)
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat
Not Give A Fig
Not Have A Cat In Hell’s Chance
Not Have a Prayer
Not Know Jack
Not Lift a Finger
Not Mince Words
Not One’s Cup of Tea
Not Playing with A Full Deck
Not Ready for Prime Time
Not Sit Well with (Someone)
Nothing to Write Home About
Nuts and Bolts
Nutty as a Fruitcake
Pack Heat
Paddle One’s Own Canoe
Page-Turner
Pain in the Neck
Paint the Town Red
Par for the Course
Pass the Buck
Pass With Flying Colors
Passing Fancy
Pay Through the Nose (For Something)
Peaches and Cream
Pecking Order
Pencil Something In
Penny-Pinching
Pep Talk
Perfect Storm
Pet Peeve
Pick a Fight
Pick Up the Slack
Pick Up the Tab
Pie in the Sky
Piece of Cake
Pin Someone Down
Pinch Pennies
Pink Slip
Pipe Dream
Piping Hot
Pipped to the Post
Pissing Contest
Play Ball
Play Cat And Mouse
Play Hardball
Play it by Ear
Play It by Ear
Play the Percentages
Play the Ponies
Play With Fire
Play Your Cards Right
Point of No Return
Point the Finger At
Point the Finger
Poison Pill (n)
Poison Pill
Pop One’s Clogs
Pop One’s Cork
Pop the Question
Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Pour (Rub) Salt into (on) the Wound (an open wound)
Powder Keg
Powder Keg
Powder One’s Nose
Preach to the Choir, Preach to the Converted
Preaching to the Choir
Pretty Penny
Price Yourself Out of the Market
Puddle Jumper
Pull Out All the Stops
Pull Strings
Pull the Plug On
Pull Yourself Together
Puppies And Rainbows
Puppy Dog Eyes
Puppy Love
Pure as the Driven Snow
Push the Envelope
Pushing Up Daisies
Pushing Up Daisies
Put a Thumb on the Scale
Put Down Roots
Put in One’s Two Cents
Put Lipstick on a Pig
Put one’s Face On
Put Out Feelers
Put Someone on the Spot
Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It
Put the Best Face On (Something)
Put the Brakes On
Put the Cart Before The Horse
Put the Cart Before the Horse
Put the Cat Among The Pigeons
Put the Genie Back in the Bottle
Put the Pedal to the Metal
Put Up with (Something)
Put Words Into Someone’s Mouth
Put Your Foot Down
Put Your Foot In Your Mouth
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Quake In One’s Boots
Quarter Past
Quarter To/Of
Queer the Pitch
Quick as a Flash
Quick-and-Dirty
Quote Unquote
Race Against Time
Rain Cats And Dogs
Rain Cats and Dogs
Rain on Someone’s Parade
Raise (Someone’s) Hackles
Raise One’s Voice
Raise Red Flags
Raise the Bar
Raise the Roof
Rake (Someone) Over the Coals
Rake Over the Ashes
Rake Someone Over the Coals
Rank and File
Read Between the Lines
Read the Tea Leaves
Rear Its Ugly Head (said of a problem or something unpleasant)
Rearrange the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Red Flag
Red Herring
Red Meat
Red Tape
Red-Light District
Reinvent the Wheel
Riding High
Right as Rain
Right Under (One’s) Nose
Right-Hand Man
Right-Hand Man
Ring a Bell
Ring a Bell
Rob Peter to Pay Paul
Rob the Cradle
Rob the Cradle
Rock Bottom
Rock the Boat
Roll the Dice On
Roll With the Punches
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
Rookie Mistake
Rotten to the Core
Rub (Something) in Someone’s Face
Rub It In
Rub Someone’s Nose in (Something)
Rubber-Stamp (v.)
Rule of Thumb
Run a Tight Ship
Run in the Family
Run in the Family
Run into a Buzz
Run into a Buzz
Run off at the Mouth
Run on Fumes
Run Out of Steam
Run the Table
Sacred Cow
Saving Grace
Scare the Living Daylights Out of Someone
Scorched Earth (Tactics, Policy, etc.)
Screw The Pooch
School Of Hard Knocks
Second Banana
Second Stringer
Second Wind
See Eye to Eye
See Something Out of the Corner of Your Eye
Seize (Take) the Bull By the Horns
Seize the Day
Sell (Someone) a Bill of Goods
Sell Like Hotcakes
Selling Point
Set in Stone
Set something to Music
Set the Bar (Too) High
Set the Thames on Fire
Set the World on Fire
Shake the Dust off Your Shoes (Feet)
Shape Up or Ship Out
Sharp as A Tack
Shell Game
Shift Gears
Shipshape And Bristol Fashion
Shit a Brick
Shoot from the Hip
Shoot Off One’s Mouth
Shoot Oneself In The Foot
Short Fuse
Shot Across the Bow
Shoulder A Weight Off Your Shoulders
Show Me an X And I’ll Show You a Y
Show One’s True Colors
Show Your Cards
Sick and Tired of
Sick as a Dog
Sick as a Parrot
Sight for Sore Eyes
Silver Bullet
Simmer Down
Sink or Swim
Sing a Different Tune
Sit On (Something)
Sit Tight
Sitting Duck
Sitting Pretty
Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under
Six of One, a Half Dozen of the Other
Six Ways to (from) Sunday
Slam Dunk
Sleep Like a Baby
Sleep with the Fishes
Slip Someone a Mickey
Slippery Slope
Slower than Molasses
Small Beer
Small Fry
Small Potatoes
Smell a Rat
Smoking Gun
Snafu
Snake Oil
Snake Oil
Sneak Peek
Soak Up the Sun
Sold On (Something)
Some Eggs
Someone’s Fingerprints Are All Over (Something)
Something to Crow
Son of a Gun
Sore Point
Sour Grapes
Sour Grapes
Spare The Rod And Spoil The Child
Speak of the Devil (and He Shall Appear)
Speak with A Plum in (one’s) Mouth
Spick and Span
Spill the Beans
Spin A Yarn
Spin One’s Wheels
Spit into The Wind
Spoiling for a Fight
Spoiling for a Fight
Square the Circle
Stab Someone in the Back
Stalking Horse
Stand (Someone) In Good Stead
Stand On One’s Own Two Feet
Stand One’s Ground
Start with a Clean Slate
Steal Someone’s Thunder
Stem the Tide
Step Up One’s Game
Step Up to the Plate
Stick It to the Man
Stick Your Nose into Something
Sticker Shock
Stick-in-the-Mud
Sticky Wicket
Stiff-Necked
Storm in a Teacup
Stormy Relationship
Stumbling Block
Straight Arrow
Strain at a Gnat and Swallow a Camel
Strike A Chord
Sugar Daddy
Sure-Fire
Swan Song
Swan Song
Sweep Under the Carpet
Sweep Under the Rug
Sweet Dreams!
Sweeten the Deal
Sweeten the Pot
Swim Against the Tide
Swim with Sharks
Swim with the Fishes
Swing for the Fences
Swing for the Fences
Sword of Damocles
Take (Someone) to the Cleaners
Take a Deep Dive (Into)
Take a Flyer
Take a Gander
Take a Hike
Take A Powder
Take a Rain Check
Take Five (Ten)
Take Five
Take It Easy
Take It Easy
Take It Easy
Take It on The Chin
Take It or Leave It (command)
Take Someone to Task
Take Something with a Pinch (grain) of Salt
Take the Cake
Take the Edge Off (of Something)
Take the Fifth
Take the Gloves Off
Take the High Road
Take The Mickey (Piss) (Out Of Someone)
Take the Shine Off (Something)
Take the Starch out of (Someone)
Take The Wind Out of Someone’s Sails
Take Your Life in Your Hands
Take Your Medicine
Take Your Time
Taste of Your Own Medicine
Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
Tear One’s Hair out
Tear-Jerker
Tee Many Martoonies
Tell It to the Marines
Tempest in a Teapot
Ten a Penny
Ten to One
Test the Waters
Test the Waters
Tie the Knot
Tighten the Screws
Tight-Lipped
Til the Cows Come Home
Time is Money
Tip of the Iceberg
Tip One’s Hand
TLC
To be A Peach
To be Smitten With Someone
To be someone’s One and Only
To be the Apple of Someone’s Eye
To Bear Fruit
To Bear Fruit
To Carpool
To Each His Own
To Get Cold Feet
To Have a Chip on One’s Shoulder
To Have Butterflies In Your Stomach
To Have One For the Road
To Pay an Arm and a Leg
To Pop (one’s) Cherry
To Pull Someone’s Leg
To Run Hot and Cold
To the Letter
Toe the Line
Tone-Deaf
Tongue-in-Cheek
Too Busy Fighting Alligators to Drain the Swamp
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth
Too Many Chiefs and Not Enough Indians
Too Many To Shake A Stick At
Toot Your Own Horn
Top Banana
Toss a Wrench (Spanner) Into
Touch Base
Touch One’s Heart
Touch Water
Tough Cookie
Tough Cookie
Tough Sledding
Turn a Blind Eye
Turn on a Dime
Turn Someone Inside Out
Turn Something on Its Head
Turn Turtle
Turn the Corner
Turn the Tables
Turnabout Is Fair Play
Twenty-Four Seven
Twist the Knife (in Deeper)
Twist the Knife (in Deeper)
Two a Penny
Two Peas in A Pod
Thank God It’s Friday (TGIF)
That Ship Has Sailed
That’s Music to My Ears
That’s a Stretch
That’s All She Wrote
The Apple Never Falls Far From the Tree
The Birds and the Bees
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
The Coast Is Clear
The Cherry On the Cake
The Deck Is (The Cards Are)
The Jig Is Up
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
The Only Game in Town
The Powers That Be
The Real McCoy
The Story Has Legs
The Time is Ripe
The Walls Have Ears We
The Walls Have Ears
The Whole Enchilada
The Whole Shebang
The World Is Your Oyster
There But For The Grace Of God Go I
There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Thin On The Ground
Think Big
Think Outside the Box
Think Tank
Think Tank
Third Rail
Third Time’s a Charm
Thirty-Thousand-Foot View
This Has (Person X) Written All Over It
This Is Not Your Father’s ____
Three Sheets to the Wind
Through the Grapevine
Through Thick and Thin
Throw a Wet Blanket on (Something)
Throw a Wrench Into
Throw Caution to the Wind
Throw Down the Gauntlet
Throw Elbows
Throw in the Towel
Throw Someone for a Loop
Throw Someone Under the Bus
Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water
Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water
Throw The Book At
Throw the Fight
Throw the Game
Throw the Match
Thumbs-Up
Train Wreck
Trash Talk
Tread Water
Trial Balloon
Trip the Light Fantastic
U Turn
Ugly Duckling
Under (Below) the Radar
Under Someone’s Spell
Under the Impression
Under the Table
Under the Weather
Under the Weather
Under Wraps
University of Life
Until the Cows Come Home
Until You’re Blue in the Face
Up a Creek
Up for Grabs
Up for Grabs
Up in Arms
Up in the Air
Up to One’s Neck
Up to Scratch
Up to Snuff
Up the Ante
Up the Duff
Upset the Apple Cart
Use One’s Head
Vale of Tears
Vicious Circle
Victory Lap
Virgin Territory
Vote with One’s Feet
Waiting in the Wings
Waka-Jumping
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Wake Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
Walk on Eggshells
Walk the Plank
Wandering Eye
Wandering Eye
Wash Your Hands of (Something)
Water Under the Bridge
Watering Hole
Weekend Warrior
We’ll Cross That Bridge
Welsh (Welch) on a Deal
Wet Behind the Ears
Wet Behind the Ears
Wet Blanket
Wet Your Whistle
What Do You Make of (Him)?
What Goes Around Comes Around
What’s Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander
When Hell Freezes Over
When In Doubt, Leave It Out
When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do
When It Rains, It Pours
When Pigs Fly
When the Chips Are Down
Where (When) the Rubber
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
Whisper Sweet Nothings (in Someone’s Ear)
Whistle in the Dark
Whistle Past the Graveyard
Whistling Dixie
White Elephant
Who’s She, the Cat’s Mother?
Wild Goose Chase
Window Dressing
Window Shop
Witch Hunt
With Bells On
Work One’s Fingers to the Bone
Worn to a Frazzle
Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead
Writing (Handwriting) on the Wall
Year In, Year Out
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but You Can’t Make It Drink
You Can Say That Again!
You Can Take It to the Bank
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
You Can’t Make an Omelet (Omelette)
You Can’t Make Fish of One and Fowl of the Other
You Know the Drill
You Snooze, You Lose
Young at Heart
Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
Your Mileage May Vary
Your Number Is Up
You’re Driving Me Nuts
Yours Truly
Zero In On
Zig When One Should Be Zagging
Zip One’s Lip
a bitter pill to swallow
a dime a dozen
a hot potato
a sandwich short of a picnic
ace in the hole
Achilles' heel
all ears
all thumbs
an arm and a leg
apple of discord
As queer as a [strange object] (UK)
at the drop of a hat
back to the drawing board
ball is in his/her/your court
balls to the wall
barking up the wrong tree
basket case
beating a dead horse
beat around the bush
bed of roses
the bee's knees
bird brain
bite off more than one can chew
bite the bullet
bite the dust
bought the farm
break a leg
burn the midnight oil
bust one's chops
by the length and breadth of something or somewhere
by the seat of one's pants
by the skin of one's teeth
call a spade a spade
call it a day
champ at the bit or chomp at the bit
cheap as chips
chew the fat
chink in one's armor
clam up
cold shoulder
couch potato
crocodile tears
cut off your nose to spite your face
cut a rug
cut the cheese (US)
cut the mustard
dig one's heels in
don't count chickens before they hatch
don't have a cow
drop a dime (US)
elephant in the room
fit as a fiddle
for a song
fly in the ointment
from A to Z
from scratch / make from scratch
get bent out of shape
get one's ducks in a row
get one's knickers in a twist
get your goat
gone south
grasp the nettle
have a blast
have eyes bigger than one's stomach
have eyes in the back of one's head
head over heels
heard it through the grapevine
hit the ceiling/roof
hit the nail on the head
hit the road
hit the sack/sheets/hay
hit the spot
hold all the cards
hold your horses
hook, line and sinker
jump ship
kick the bucket
kick the habit
kill two birds with one stone
let the cat out of the bag
like pulling hens' teeth
look a gift horse in the mouth
method to (one's) madness
My two cents
nip (something) in the bud
no horse in this race or no dog in this fight
off one's trolley or
off one's rocker
off the hook
once in a blue moon
own goal
part and parcel
pop one's clogs
the pot calling the kettle black
piece of cake
preaching to the choir
pull somebody's leg
push the envelope
pushing up daisies
put the cat among the pigeons
raining cats and dogs
right as rain
rock the boat
shoot the breeze
shooting fish in a barrel
step up to the plate
screw the pooch
sleep with the fishes
spill the beans
spin one's wheels
straw that broke the camel's back
take the biscuit
take (or grab) the bull by the horns
take the cake
take the piss
take with a grain of salt
throw stones in glass houses
throw the baby out with the bathwater
throw under the bus
through thick and thin
thumb one's nose
tie one on
to steal someone's thunder
trip the light fantastic
two a penny
two left feet
under my thumb
under the weather
the whole nine yards
wild goose chase
you can say that again
put a spoke in one's wheel
A blessing in disguise
A dime a dozen
Adding insult to injury
Beat around the bush
Beating a dead horse
Bite the bullet
Best of both worlds
Biting off more than you can chew
By the skin of your teeth
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Doing something at the drop of a hat
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
Caught between a rock and a hard place
Costs an arm and a leg
Cutting corners
Devil’s advocate
Feeling under the weather
Fit as a fiddle
Getting a taste of your own medicine
Getting a second wind
Giving the benefit of the doubt
Giving someone the cold shoulder
Going on a wild goose chase
Heard it on the grapevine
Hitting the nail on the head
Killing two birds with one stone
Letting someone off the hook
Letting the cat out of the bag
No pain, no gain
On the ball
Once in a blue moon
Piece of cake
Pulling someone’s leg
Speak of the devil
Stealing someone’s thunder
Straight from the horse’s mouth
The last straw
The elephant in the room
Throwing caution to the wind
Your guess is as good as mine
A snowball effect
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Burning bridges
Every dog has his day
Fit as a fiddle
Go down in flames
Getting a second wind
Having your head in the clouds
He/She is off their rocker
It’s always darkest before the dawn
It takes two to tango
Like riding a bike
Like two peas in a pod
Run like the wind
Through thick and thin
Time is money
Weather the storm
Can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink
Clouds on the horizon
24/7
A short fuse
A taste of your own medicine
Butterflies in my stomach
By the skin of your teeth
Cat got your tongue?
Crying wolf
Cut someone some slack
Down for the count
Draw the line
Easier said than done
Every cloud has a silver lining
Finding a needle in a haystack
Fish out of water
Get something off your chest
Give it a whirl
Go down in flames
Go the extra mile
Hang in there
In the fast lane
In the nick of time
Let the cat out of the bag
Let the chips fall where they may
Lose your marbles
Once in a blue moon
Plain as day
Play second fiddle
Put your foot in your mouth
Pull yourself together
Sick and tired
Sleep on it
Snug as a bug in a rug
Step up your game
Stick your nose into something
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Take it easy
Tip of the iceberg
To not see the wood for the trees
Up a creek without a paddle
You rock!
Stir up a hornets’ nest
Back against the wall
Bite off more than you can chew
Head over heels
Upset someone’s applecart
Spoil someone’s plans
Keep someone at arm’s length
Up in arms
Drive a hard bargain
Barking up the wrong tree
Scrape the barrel
Bend over backwards
A chip off the old block
Blow your own trumpet
Once in a blue moon
Burn your boats/ bridges
Make no bones about something
Break fresh/ new ground
In the same breath
Take away your breath
Sell like hot cakes
Burn the candle at both ends
Separate the wheat from the chaff
Change tune
Run around in circles
Turn the clock back
Against the clock
Close the door on someone
Burn the midnight oil
Chicken and egg situation
On cloud nine
Under a cloud
Head in the clouds
Small cog in a large wheel
The other side of the coin
Pay someone back in his /her own coin
Left out in the cold
Pour cold water on
Blow hot and cold
To come to a head
Cool your heels
Cut corners
Run its course
Stay the course
Cut someone down to size
Daylight robbery
Boil the ocean
Handle with kid gloves
Clear the decks
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
The luck of the devil
Keep an ear to the ground
Turn a deaf ear
Eat like a horse
An eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth
Face the music
A flash in the pan
Hold your horses
Drag one’s feet
Worth its weight in gold
Go against the grain
Jump the gun
Stick to your guns
Let one’s hair down
Hand in glove
Look for needle in a haystack
Wear your heart on your sleeve
Move heaven and earth
Hit the bottle
Hit the book
Hit the sack
Get someone off the hook
Cut no ice
On thin ice
Strike while the iron is hot
Hit the jackpot
Have the last laugh
See the light of day
Light at the end of tunnel
Toe the line
Live on borrowed time
Hold your tongue
Make a mountain of a molehill
Cry for the moon
Hit the nail on the head
Nail in someone’s coffin
Pay through the nose
Under someone’s nose
Cast pearls before swine
Put the cat among the pigeons
Put someone in his/ her place
Point finger at
Pour out one’s heart
Swallow your pride
When push comes to shove
Raining cats and dogs
Read between the lines
Beat a retreat
Take somebody for a ride
Go through the roof
On the ropes
Rub salt into someone’s wounds
Give someone a run for their money
Shut one’s eyes to
In the red (In the black)
Allow the dust to settle
Take the word out of somebody’s mouth
Eat your words
A shot in the dark
Call the shots
Head and shoulders above
Put to bed
Put something to sleep
By the skin of your teeth
Save your skin
Have a thick skin
Start with a clean slate
No smoke without fire
No strings attached
Throw a spanner in the work
Wear two/ several hats
Throw one’s weight around
Throw caution to the wind
Spill the beans
Walk a tightrope
Be in a tight spot
Spread yourself thin
Steal the show
Let off steam
Blow someone’s cover
Stick to your guns
Leave no stone unturned
Set in stone
Set the record straight
Go on record
The last straw (or the straw that broke the camel’s back)
Bitter pill to swallow
Laugh all the way to the bank
Show someone the door
Foot in the door
In full swing
Turn the tables on somebody
The tail is wagging the dog
Can’t make head or tail of something
Keep one’s words
Lose your temper
Test waters
Through thick and thin
Thorn in your flesh
Turn the tide
On top of the world
Try one’s patience
Twist someone’s arm
Change hands
Wash dirty linen in public
Have one’s hands full
Throw up one’s hands
Watch one’s step
White elephant
Be off the mark
Wild-goose chase
Know which way the wind is blowing
Have your work cut out
Back the wrong horse
From the horse’s mouth
Eat like a bird
Kill two birds with one stone
Eat humble pie
Have one’s cake and eat it too
Shoot from the hip
Shoot oneself in the foot
In cold blood
Draw first blood
Ace up one’s sleeve
Play your cards right
Egg on your face
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
An arm and a leg
Behind one’s back
Stab someone in the back
Take a back seat
Back to the drawing board
Right off the bat
Heart misses (skips) a beat
Have your heart in your mouth
Not the only fish in the sea
Not your cup of tea
A piece of cake
Call it a day
The pot calling the kettle black
Call a spade a spade
A bolt from the blue
In the same boat
Miss the boat/ bus
Over my dead body
Make one’s blood boil
Bounce something off someone
Bell the cat
Like a cat on hot tin roof
Like a fish out of water