A
- A blessing in disguise
- A dime a dozen
- A dog with a bone
- A light purse is a heavy curse
- A plum job
- A pretty penny
- A sight for sore eyes
- A slap on the wrist
- A stick in the mud
- A stitch in time saves nine
- A taste of someone’s own medicine
- A tempest in a teapot
- A watched pot never boils
- A wild goose chase
B
- Back the wrong horse
- Ball is in your court
- Bark is worse than bite
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Beat a dead horse
- Beat around the bush
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Behind the eight ball
- Bend over backwards
- Best thing since sliced bread
- Bet on the wrong horse
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Bigger fish to fry
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Bite off more than you can chew
- Bite the bullet
- Blow your own horn
- Blow your own trumpet
- Bob’s your uncle
- Born on third base
- Born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth
- Bread always falls on the buttered side
- Break a leg
- Bring home the bacon
- Bury the hatchet
- Butterflies in stomach
C
- Cat got your tongue
- Caught red-handed
- Chew the fat
- Chip on someone’s shoulder
- Clean someone’s clock
- Cost an arm and a leg
- Count your blessings
- Crack a nut with a sledgehammer
- Cross that bridge when come to it
- Cry wolf
- Cut corners
- Cut someone some slack
- Cyber manhunt
D
- Dangle a carrot in front of someone
- Deer in the headlights
- Devil’s advocate
- Dig in your heels
- Dog with a bone
- Dollars to donuts
- Dollars to doughnuts
- Don’t be a party pooper
- Don’t be a sourpuss
- Don’t be a wet blanket
- Don’t count your chicken before they hatch
- Don’t hold your breath
- Don’t judge a book by its cover
- Don’t mince your words
- Don’t press your luck
- Don’t push your luck
- Don’t let the cat out of the bag
- Don’t rain on someone’s parade
- Don’t spill the beans
- Down-to-earth
- Drop the ball on something
E
- Eat crow
- Eat humble pie
- Eat out of one’s hand
- Eat your words
- Elbow grease
- Elephant in the room
- Eleventh hour
- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
- Every cloud has a silver lining
F
G
- Get ducks in a row
- Get in someone’s hair
- Get off your high horse!
- Get the ball rolling
- Get the sack
- Get the upper hand
- Get your feet wet
- Give someone a pat on the back
- Give someone the benefit of the doubt
- Give someone both barrels
- Give someone the cold shoulder
- Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile
H
- Hand over fist
- Handle with kid gloves
- Have butterflies in stomach
- Have someone by the short hairs
- Have your work cut out for you
- Heads will roll
- Hindsight is twenty-twenty
- Hit the ground running
- Hit the nail on the head
- Hit the sack
- Hold a candle to someone
- Hold your horses
I
- I have a bone to pick with you
- I have bigger fish to fry
- I wasn’t born yesterday
- I will cross that bridge when I come to it
- If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
- It ain’t over till the fat lady sings
- It takes two to tango
- It’s all Greek to me
- It’s raining cats and dogs
J
K
L
- Let bygones be bygones
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Live below your means
- Let the chips fall where they may
- Living on a shoestring
- Look before you leap
M
- Make a mountain out of a molehill
- Make hay while the sun shines
- March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
- Mince someone’s words
- Mind your own business
- Mind your p’s and q’s
- My two cents
N
- Nip in the bud
- Not playing with a full deck
- Not the brightest bulb on the porch
- Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained
O
P
- Pay through the nose
- Pat someone on the back
- Piece of cake
- Play hard to get
- Play on someone’s heartstrings
- Plum job
- Pretty penny
- Pulling someone’s leg
- Put ear to the ground
- Put someone on the spot
- Put the cart before the horse
- Put two and two together
- Put your foot in your mouth
Q
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R
- Raining cats and dogs
- Riding someone’s coattails
- Riding on someone’s coattails
- Ring a bell
- Roll out the red carpet
- Rub elbows with someone
- Rub someone the wrong way
- Run of the mill
S
- Scratch someone’s back
- See eye to eye
- Sight for sore eyes
- Sitting on the fence
- Slap on the wrist
- Someone has the last laugh
- Someone is on a roll
- Speak of the devil
- Spill the beans
- Spit in the eye of someone
- Splitting hairs
- Sponge off someone
- Steal someone’s thunder
- Stick your nose in/into something
- Stick your neck out for someone
- Straw that broke the camel’s back
- Sweat bullets
T
- Take a hike
- Take a rain check
- Take someone for a ride
- Take something with a grain of salt
- Talk is cheap
- Tempest in a teapot
- Tip of an iceberg
- The ball is in your court
- The best thing since sliced bread
- The devil is in the details
- The elephant in the room
- The eleventh hour
- The end justifies the means
- The jury is out
- The straw that broke the camel’s back
- The whole nine yards
- Throw in the towel
- Throw the baby out with the bath water
- To add insult to injury
- Tongue-in-cheek
- Twist someone’s arm
U
V
W
- Wait for the other shoe to drop
- Walk the talk
- Walls have ears
- Wet behind the ears
- When hell freezes over
- When it rains, it pours
- When pigs fly
- When push comes to shove
- Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
- Wild goose chase
- Writing on the wall
X
Y
- You can take it to the bank
- You can’t have your cake and eat it too
- You’re barking up the wrong tree
- Your goose is cooked
- Your guess is as good as mine