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- ace in the hole
- all ears
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- an axe to grind
- an empty bag cannot stand upright
- ants in the pants
- at the end of one's rope
- babies must play
- back seat driver
- bad news travel fast
- ball game is over
- banana nose
- beetle (bug)
- beggars can't be choosers
- behind the 8 ball
- best patch is of the same cloth
- beware of the door with too many keys
- big as a barrel
- big fish eat little fish
- bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- birds of a feather flock together
- bitch
- black as the ace of spades
- blockhead
- blow one's own horn
- bone to pick with someone
- bookworm
- breadwinner
- break the ice
- bridge over troubled water
- broken heart
- burn the candle at both ends
- butter someone up
- butterfingers
- butterflies in one's stomach
- cauliflower ears
- call no man happy till he's dead
- can't see the forest for the trees
- cast iron stomach
- castles in the air
- cat got your tongue?
- cat's out of the bag
- children should be seen and not heard
- chip off the old block
- chip on one's shoulder
- chiseler
- Christmas comes but once a year
- climb the ladder
- climb the walls
- cloud 9
- colorful language
- coming down in buckets
- cool cat
- counting sheep
- cracked bell can never sound
- croaked
- crutch
- cry one's eyes out
- dead men tell no tales
- Dear John letter
- dime a dozen
- doesn't have a leg to stand on
- dog (he or she is a)
- don't bite off more than you can chew
- don't count your chickens before they hatch
- don't judge a book by its cover
- don't let the grass grow under your feet
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
- don't put the cart before the horse
- don't throw a monkey wrench into the machinery
- don't throw out the baby with the bathwater
- down in the dumps
- drinks are on the house
- drop in the bucket
- eagle flies alone
- ear to the ground
- early bird catches the worm
- easy street
- eat your heart out
- egg in the face
- eighty-six it
- empty barrels make the most noise
- even the devil will swear on a stack of bibles
- every family has at least one black sheep
- eyes in the back of his head
- face of the mountain
- feeling blue
- finger licking good
- flat as a board
- foot in the door
- forbidden fruit is the sweetest
- forked tongue
- four eyes
- frog in the throat
- fruit one's labor
- full of baloney
- full of hot air
- funnier than a barrel of monkeys
- get under one's skin
- getting on someone's back
- gingerbread molding
- give hime enough rope and he'll hang himself
- give him the needle
- go fly a kite
- go through the roof
- going downhill
- greenhorn
- green thumb
- hands are tied
- hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
- handwriting's on the wall
- hang dog
- head in the clouds
- heard it through the grapevine
- hedges have eyes
- high chair
- higher they rise the farther they fall
- hit the sack
- hitch your wagon to a star
- hole in the wall
- home is where the heart is
- home is where you hang your hat
- home sweet home
- honesty is the best policy
- horseless carriage
- hot pants
- hotter than a $2 pistol
- hung out to dry
- hungry enough to eat a horse
- I was framed
- if the hat fits, wear it
- if the shoe fits, wear it
- I'll eat my hat
- imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
- in a stew
- in it up to one's neck
- in hot water
- in one ear and out the other
- in the dark
- iron curtain
- it's a dog eat dog world
- it's no use crying over spilt milk
- it's written all over your face
- just because there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there isn't fire in the furnace
- keep your head above water
- kick the bucket
- killing two birds with one stone
- knock on wood
- knockers
- lean over backwards
- lemon
- leave one's mark
- let the chips fall where they may
- let's call a spade a spade
- life has its ups and downs
- life is a two-way street
- light my fire
- lightning never strikes the same place twice
- lighting the candle at both ends
- like father, like son
- like day and night
- long and winding road
- look before you leap
- lose one's head
- make hay while the sun shines
- man who is his own doctor has a fool for a patient
- man's home is his castle
- many hands make light work
- melt into someone's arms
- men seldom passes to girls who wear glasses
- mushroom (man or men)
- music hath charms to soothe the savage beast
- my heart has wings
- needle in a haystack
- never cross a bridge until you come to it
- never hit a man below the belt
- new brooms sweep clean
- nightcap
- no strings attached
- no one knows what goes behind closed doors
- nut
- off one's rocker
- on the tip of one's tongue
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- out on a limb
- out to pasture
- over a barrel
- over the hill
- pain in the neck
- painting the town red
- pearls before swine
- picture tells a thousand words
- piece of cake
- pig
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- playing second fiddle
- poison one's mind
- pot belly
- practice what you preach
- pretty as a picture
- printing press is the mother of errors
- pull up a chair
- pullin one's leg
- puppet
- pushing up daisies
- put a feather in your cap
- put our heads together
- put that in your pipe and smoke it
- put your money where your mouth is
- raining cats and dogs
- rat race
- rock's in one's head
- roof over one's head
- rooted to the spot
- roots (to have them somewhere)
- sawing logs
- self-made man
- she stole his heart
- shoot one's mouth off
- shot in the arm
- sit on it
- sitting on a fence
- sky is falling
- sky's the limit
- slow but steady wins the race
- something up one's sleeve
- something's rotten in Denmark
- sour grapes
- small world
- smoke so thick you can cut it with a knife
- snake in the grass
- snug as a bug in the rug
- stabbed in the back
- stag party
- stay in one's shell
- stewed
- stitch in time save time
- stone face
- stoned
- stones throw away
- straight from the horse's mouth
- strawman
- stretch one's legs
- strong stomach
- stubborn as a mule
- stuffed shirt
- sweep it under the rug
- sweetest grapes hang highest
- tails on a coat
- take the bull by the horns
- tall tale (tail)
- tee-shirt
- ten-foot pole
- that rings a bell
- that's a horse of a different color
- that's how the cookie crumbles
- that's icing on the cake
- there are more ways to kill a dog than by hanging
- there is no fool like an old fool
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- thorn in one's side
- throw in the cards
- throw in the hat
- throw in the towel
- tied up
- tighthen one's belt
- time flies
- toadstool
- tongue hanging out
- too many cooks spoil the broth
- two heads are better than one
- under the weather
- up against the wall
- up in the air
- variety is the spice of life
- wallflower
- walls have ears
- watched pot never boils
- watchtower
- water (passed) under the bridge
- way to a man's heart is through his stomach
- we can make beautiful music together
- wear many hats
- weight of the world on one's shoulders
- when clouds are seen wise men put on their coats
- when one door shuts another opens
- when the chips are down
- where there's smoke there's fire
- when poverty knocks the door, love flies out the window
- white elephant
- window on the world
- woman driver
- world on a string
- would look alright with a bag over his (or her) head
- you re what you eat
- you can't be in two places at once
- you can't have your cake and eat it too
- you can't keep a good man down
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't take it with you
- you have a screw loose
- you have to take the good with the bad
- you hit the nail right on the head
- you would forget your head if it wasn't screwed on