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He would forget his head if it weren't screwed up.
I'm signing my own death knell.
It's the old Paul Revere bit . . . one if by two and two if by one.
It's a hairy can of worms.
It's your ball of wax, you unravel it.
I know what we have to do to get our feet off the ground.
I'll hit him right between the teeth.
She hit the nail on the nose.
Do not fumble with a woman's logic.
Are there any problems we haven't beat out to death?
He got taken right through the nose.
Let's set up a straw vote and knock it down.
Don't pull an enigma on me.
Let me throw a monkey into the wrench.
It's raining like a bandit.
One doesn't swallow the whole cake at the first sitting.
Gander your eye at that!
I case my ground very well before I jump into it.
There are two sides to every marshmallow.
I wouldn't give it to a wet dog.
I'll be there in the next foreseeable future.
People in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black.
The whole thing is a hairy potpourri.
Every cloud has a blue horizon.
That solves two stones with one bird.
Come down off your charlie horse.
Just cut a thin slither of it.
A carpenter's son doesn't have shoes.
There were foot-high puddles.
Getting him to do anything is like pulling hen's teeth.
He's the king of queens.
It's a mecca of people.
It's the blind leading the deaf.
Let's kick the bucket with a certain amount of daintiness.
It's a slap in the chaps.
He smokes like a fish.
He's so far above me I can't reach his bootstraps.
It's like asking a man to stop eating in the middle of a starvation diet.
He has his neck out on a limb.
He's a young peeksqueek.
It fills a well-needed gap.
Lay a bugaboo to rest.
For all intensive purposes, the act is over.
The early bird will find his can of worms.
He's running around like a chicken with his ass cut off.
If the onus fits, wear it.
This thing kills me to the bone.
We can't get through the forest for the trees.
I'm deathly curious.
That's a camel's eye strained through a gnat's tooth.
If there's no fire, don't make waves.
I'm going to feel it out by the ear.
Don't get your eye out of joint.
She has eyes like two holes in a burnt blanket.
Put it on the back of the stove and let it simper.
He's running around like a bull with his head cut off.
I can't hum a straight tune.
That was the pan he was flashed in.
They fell all over their faces.
Give him an inch and he'll screw you.
In one mouth and out the other.
Judas Proust!
Those guys are as independent as hogs on ice.
I'm not trying to grind anybody's axes.
The aggressor is on the wrong foot.
I only hope your every wish is desired.
Let me take you under my thumb.
An avalanche is nipping at their heels.
I had to make a split decision.
There's a flaw in the ointment.
It's as predictable as cherry pie.
I would imagine he chafes a bit.
He's as quick as an eyelash.
it's like a knife through hot butter.
He's as happy as a pig at high tide.
I'm over the hilt.
No loaf is better than half a loaf at all.
Fellow alumni run thicker than water.
He's a shirking violet.
I have to get my guts up.
He's as crazy as a fruitcake.
I'm basking in his shadow.
I'm up a wrong alley.
It's a mare's nest in sheep's clothing.
I'm collapsing around the seams.
I read the sign, but it went in one ear and out the other.
Roll out the Ouija ball.
Now he's sweating in his own pool.
He's like a wine glass in a storm.
Don't burn your bridges until you come to them.
Straighten up or fly right.
I have no personal bones to grind about it.
His eyeballs perked up.
I think I've committed a fore paw.
He can't hack the other can of worms.
I'm going to read between your lines.
He's cornered on all sides.
A lot of these arguments are fetious.
They're atrophying on the vine.
It's a fiat accompli.
A lot of water has gone over the bridge since then.
It's always better to be safe than have your neck out on a limb.
I guess that muddled the waters.
They unspaded some real down to earth data.
It's wrought with problems.
The sink is shipping.
Like the shoemaker's children, we have computers running out of our ears.
If you're going to break a chicken, you have to scramble a few eggs.
Don't cast doubts on troubled waters.
He's running off at the seams.
He's running from gamut to gamut.
He has a wool of steel.
Don't pull a panic button.
It's a road of hard knocks.
Let's roll up our elbows and get to work.
Dig a hole and bury it.
I'm smarting at the seams.
All the lemmings are going home to roost.
I only hear half of what I believe.
No moss grows on his stone.
No Californian will walk a mile if possible.
He's lying through his britches.
He has a dire need, actually it's half-dire, but he thinks it's double-dire.
It's all in knowing when to let a dead horse die.
Don't cash in your chips until the shill is down.
He's up a creek with his paddles leaking.
It's like harnessing a hare to a tortoise.
Does it joggle any bells?
That's the way the old ball game bounces.
He's faster than the naked eye.
I want half a cake and eat it too.
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the drain.
I want to go into that at short length.
He rammed it down their ears.
I've milked that dead end for all it's worth.
Keep your nose to the mark.
It's a white elephant around my neck.
If you see loose strings that have to be tied down that are not nailed up, see me about it.
Nobody is going to give you the world in a saucer.
I came within a hair's breathe of it.
He rules with an iron thumb.
The grocer's son always has shoes.
Let's bend a few lapels.
They're dying off like fleas.
We brought this can of worms into the open.
The up-kick of all that will be nothing.
After that, we'll break our gums on the computer.
There is one niche in his armor.
I resent the insinuendoes.
I'm your frontface in this matter.
Let's grab the initiative by the horns.
It goes from tippy top to tippy bottom.
Together again for the first time.
He's a bulldog in a china shop.
Take it with a block of salt.
No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
I'm wound up like a cork.
The initiative is on the wrong foot.
I had to scratch in the back recesses of my memory.
I want to embark upon your qualms.
It's a tough nut to hoe.
Let's kill two dogs with one bone.
I won't hang my laurels on it.
I'm working my blood up into a fervor.
Let's lurch into the next hour of the show.
Everything is going all bananas.
I'm pulling something over on you.
That's a ball of another wax.
We got on board at ground zero.
Give him a square shake.
I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles.
I'll see it when I believe it.
I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut.
They are unscrupulously honest.
It gets grained into you.
I'm in transit on that point.
There's a strong over current here.
It's one more cog in the wheel.
It sure hits the people between the head.
It's a hairy banana.
I only mentioned it to give you another side of the horse.
I thought I'd fall out of my gourd.
Let's not drag any more dead herrings across the garden path.
She had an aurora of goodness about her.
No dust grows under her feet.
I'm out of my bloomin' loon.
It flows like water over the stream.
He's paying through the neck.
He knows which side his pocketbook is buttered on.
He should be gracious for small favors.
Don't jump off the handle.
That's worse than running chalk up and down your back.
Keep your nose to the plow.
It goes from one gamut to another.
If you ask him he could wax very quickly on that subject.
That's the wart that sank the camel's back.
I'm going to put a little variety in your spice of life.
The foot that rocks the cradle is usually in the mouth.
He's so mad he is spitting wooden nickels.
It's burned to shreds.
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
Have we been cast a strange eye at?
The meeting was a first-class riot squad.
They sucked all the cream off the crop.
A whole hog is better than no hole at all.
He doesn't know which side his head is buttered on.
It's more than the mind can boggle.
I see several little worms raising their heads around the corner.
It's a tempest in a teacup.
They run across the gamut.
I've been burning the midnight hours.
I guess I'd better get my duff on the road.
I'm willing to throw my two cents into the fire.
It's a terrible crutch to bear.
Any kneecap of yours is a friend of mine.
It floated right to the bottom.
The groundwork is thoroughly broken.
It's a typical case of alligator mouth and hummingbird ass.
I want to get more fire into the iron.
Pick them up from their bootstraps.
He was hoisted by a skyhook on his own petard!
They wrecked havoc in the kitchen.
There's no place in the bowl for another spoon to stir the broth.
Everything is mutually intertangled.
They're spreading like wildflowers.
It's something you're all dying to wait for.
They rolled their eyebrows at me.
I'm going to cast my rocks to the wind.
That job is at the bottom of the rung.
Don't jump off the gun.
Put all your money where your marbles are.
It's music to your eyes.
Don't talk to me with your clothes on.
I did it sitting flat on my back.
In this vein I will throw out another item for Pandoras' box.
It was oozing right out of the lurches.
He's got his intentions crossed.
Their attitude is to let lying dogs sleep.
I'd like to intersperse a comment.
That really uprooted the apple cart.
I come to you on bended bootstrap.
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
I'd kill a dog to bite that man.
He's biting the shaft and getting the short end of the problem.
Not in a cocked hat, you don't!
Don't cut off the limb you've got your neck strung out on.
I could tell you stories that would curdle your hair.
It's the old chicken-in-the-egg problem.
Man cannot eat by bread alone.
It hit the epitome of it.
Don't rock the boat that feeds you.
I guess I'm putting all my birds in one pie.
Let's not hurdle into too many puddles at once.
If they had to stand on their own two feet, they would have gone down the drain a long time ago.
There's a little life in the old shoe yet.
Hold your cool!
I'll descend on them to the bone.
He got up on his highheels.
I'm going off tangentially.
Those guys weld a lot of power.
That was almost half done unconsciously.
He's seething at the teeth.
She's a virgin who has never been defoliated.
She looks like she's been dead for several years, lately.
They just want to chew the bull.
That puts me up a worse creek.
It's a sight for sore ears.
May I inveigle on you?
Good riddance aforethought.
We can throw a lot of muscle into the pot.
I'm going to take my vendetta out on them.
I want to see him get a good hands-on feel.
I wouldn't take him on a ten foot pole.
I'll reek the benefits.
If you want to be heard, go directly to the horse's ear.
Shoot it up the flag pole.
I put all my marbles in one basket.
It's not completely an unblessed advantage.
I'm a mere fragment of my imagination.
I rushed around like a chicken out of my head.
There is no surefool way of proceeding.
I only read it in snips and snabs.
It's sloppy mismanagement.
He's breathing down my throat.
It went through the palm of my shoe.
Have we gone too fast too far?
History is just a repetition of the past.
Have more discretion in the face of valor.
That's pushing a dead horse.
He's spending a lot of brunt on the task.
I'm creaming off the top of my head.
Don't stick your oar in muddy waters.
It's about 15 feet as the eye flies.
It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while.
The faculty has cast a jaundiced eye upon the waters.
There's a lot of credibility in that gap!
Get off the stick and do something.
Is he an Amazon!
This ivory tower we're living in is a glass house.
He came in on my own volition.
I'm not sure it's my bag of tea.
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
I'm talking up a dead alley.
Let me feast your ears.
Don't count your chickens until the barn door is closed.
Never feed a hungry dog an empty loaf of bread.
Don't just stand there like a sitting duck.
When they go downstairs, you can hear neither hide nor hair of them.
They're working their bones off.
That opens up a whole other kettle of songs.
I'm going right out of my bonker.
They are very far and few between.
Put the onus on the other foot.
He has his pot in too many pies.
Anybody who marries her would stand out like a sore thumb.
That's an unexpected surprise.
Somebody's flubbing his dub.
My ebb is running low.
This bit of casting oil on troubled feathers is more than I can take.
He doesn't have the brain to rub two nickels together.
They don't see eye for eye with us.
The viewpoints run from hot to cold.
If you'd let me, I'd forget the shirt off my back.
Not me, I didn't open my peep.
It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing.
I've had more girls than you've got hair between your teeth.
It leaks like a fish.
I think he's gone over the bend.
She's got a bee in her bonnet and just won't let it go.
It was really amazing to see the spectra of people there.
The wishbone's connected to the kneebone.
There are enough cooks in the pot already.
Float off into several individual conferees.
That's the straw that broke the camel's hump.
If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
That's a horse of a different feather.
She's trying to feather her own bush.
That curdles my toes.
Do it now; don't dingle-dally over it.
My off-the-head reaction is negative.
He has the character of navel lint.
My antipathy runneth over.
He's got four sheets in the wind.
It's hanging out like a sore tongue.
Pictures speak louder than words.
Give him enough rope and he will run away with it.
It's within the pall of reason.
Clean up your own can of worms!
It's not an easy thing to get your teeth wet on.
I don't know which dagger to clothe it in.
Those words were very carefully weasled.
I got you by the nap of your neck.
That's a bird of a different color.
I'm sitting on the edge of my ice.
I said it beneath my breath.
He'll grease any palm that will pat his ass.
Nobody could fill his socks.
He's letting ground grow under his feet.
He's procrastinating like a bandit.
He didn't even bat an eyebrow.
Don't jump on a ship that's going down in flames.
If the shoe is on the other foot, wear it.
His feet have come home to roost.
He's a lion in a den of Daniels.
I worked my toes to the bonenail.
It's crumbling at the seams.
There's going to be hell and high water to pay.
She's flying off the deep end.
Keep your eyes geared to the situation.
That's their applecart, let them choke on it.
Keep this under your vest.
Never the twixt should change.
There's more than one way to skin an egg without letting the goose out of the bag.
I'm burning my bridges out from under me!
Conceptual things are in the eye of the beholder.
We have a difference of agreement.
He pulled himself up on top of his own bootstraps.
No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls.
I don't want to cast a pall on the water.
Let's strike the fire before the iron gets hot.
That's getting to the crotch of the matter.
I'm going to take my venom out on you.
I hear the handwriting on the wall.
Those people have no bones to grind.
The atmosphere militates against a solution.
That curdles the milk of human kindness.
He's one of the world's greatest flamingo dancers.
He's running around with his chicken cut off.
That's water under the dam.
I'll take a few pegs out of his sails.
They sure dipsied his doodle.
We threw everything in the kitchen sink at them.
He has his foot in the pie.
Let me say a word before I throw in the reins.
We have a real messy ball of wax.
Every rainbow has a silver lining.
Boulder dash!
Half a worm is better than none.
Get the hot poop right off the vine.
From here on up, it's down hill all the way.
If you want to get your jollies off, watch this!
That problem is getting pushed into the horizon.
Anything he wants is a friend of mine.
Everything's all ruffled over.
That's a different jar of worms.
He's singing a little off-keel.
She stepped full-face on it.
The future is not what it used to be.
I've worked my shins to the bone.
As long as somebody let the cat out of the bag, we might as well spell it correctly.
That's a measle-worded statement if I ever heard one.
It's about as satisfactory as falling off a log.
The idea did cross my head.
They're eating out of our laps.
Any storm in a port.
It's going to bog everybody up.
He was left out on the lurch.
She's melting out punishment.
Let it slip between the cracks.
Take care of two stones with one bird.
And I take the blunt of it!
I have my neck hung out on an open line.
Nobody's going to put his neck out on a limb.
The die has been cast on the face of the waters.
I haven't bitten off an easy nut.
It's right on the tip of my head.
There's laughing on the outside, panelling on the inside.
I think that we are making an out-and-out molehill of this issue.
The restaurants are terrible \(em the town is completely indigestible.
They're germs in the rough.
I'll bet there's one guy out in the woodwork.
That's a matter for sore eyes.
He's being pruned for the job.
I had to throw in the white flag.
It's no chip off my clock.
He choked on his own craw.
He gave me a blanket check.
My stomach gets all knotted up in rocks.
He has a very weak indigestion.
Now the laugh is on the other foot!
If you don't want words put in your mouth, don't leave it hanging open.
I'll be ready just in case a windfall comes down the pike.
He's going to fall flat on his feet.
The horse is stolen before the barn even gets its door closed.
He hit the nose right on the head.
It goes out one ear and in the other.
They're coming farther between.
I'd better jack up my bootstraps and get going.
I'm going to put my horn in.
I listen with a very critical eye.
He didn't flinch an eyelid.
I have a green thumb up to my elbow.
He said it thumb in cheek.
There's no two ways around it.
It was a heart-rendering decision.
Too many drinks spoil the broth.
He just sat there like a bump on a wart.
In this period of time, its getting very short.
He was hung by his own bootstraps.
There's a lot of blanche here to carte.
Fade out in a blaze of glory.
I'm sticking my neck out on a ledge.
Don't muddle the waters.
Keep the water as firm as possible until a fellow has his feet on the ground.
Let's not get ahead of the bandwagon.
I'm standing over your shoulder.
It's going to fall on its ass from within.
Let's shoot holes at it.
They're very far and few between.
I'll fight him hand and nail.
It's the greatest little seaport in town.
Trying to get a doctor on Wednesday is like trying to shoot a horse on Sunday.
They locked the door after the house was stolen.
To sweeten the pie, I'll add some cash.
It's like the flood of the Hesperis.
That's a sight for deaf ears.
Don't throw the baby out with the dishwasher.
He's got a tough axe to hoe.
I'll procrastinate when I get around to it.
No rocks grow on Charlie.
Gee, it must have fallen into one of my cracks.
One back scratches another.
Let's look at it from the other side of the view.
He's casting a red herring on the face of the water.
All the lemmings are coming home to roost.
I think the real crux is the matter.
Dot your t's and cross your i's.
Things keep falling out of it, three or four years at a time.
He's clam bait.
All you have to do is fill in the missing blanks.
It's a travesty to the human spirit.
Give him a project to get his teeth wet on.
I owe you a great gratitude of thanks.
There's a lot of bull in the china shop.
They closed the doors after the barn was stolen.
Things have slowed down to a terrible halt.
Not in a pig's bladder you don't!
How old is your 2-year old?
If you listen in the right tone of voice, you'll hear what I mean.
I have reasonably zero desire to do it.
Let sleeping uncertainties lie.
There's nothing like stealing the barn door after the horse is gone.
It's the the highest of the lows.
Trying to do anything is like a tour de force.
He's too smart for his own bootstraps.
The onus is on the other foot.
I could count it on the fingers of one thumb.
A rocky road is easier to travel than a stone wall.
There is a prolifery of new ideas.
They went after him tooth and fang.
It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody.
My head is twice its size.
If they do it there won't be a living orgasm left.
Good grace is in the eye of the beholder.
He's fuming at the seams.
It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing.
Speaking off the hand, I'd advise you to quit.
Let's put out a smeller.
That's a two-edged circle.
Abandon ship all you who enter here!
We got another thing out of it that I want to heave in.
It' not an easy thing to get your teeth around.
I wouldn't want to be sitting in his shoes.
Let's play the other side of the coin.
Don't make a molehill out of a can of beans.
Don't look a gift horse in the face.
Not by the foggiest stretch of the imagination!
I'm not going to bail him out of his own juice.
It might have been a figment of my illusion.
That aspect permutes the whole situation.
I have people crawling out of my ears.
I'm running around like a one-armed paper bandit.
That doesn't cut any weight with him.
Somebody pushed the panic nerve.
It's like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
The ideas sprang full-blown from the hydra's heads.
I've got to put my duff to the grindstone.
This office requires a president who will work right up to the hilt.
I have post-naval drip.
Put it in a guinea sack.
Don't strike any bells while the fire is hot.
They've beaten the bushes to death.
They make strange bedfellows together.
It's like a raft on roller skates.
Let's skin another can of worms.
He's been living off his laurels for years.
Don't leave the nest that feeds you.
Don't cast any dispersions.
Your wild oats have come home to roost.
A problem swept under the table occasionally comes home to roost.
Go fly your little red wagon somewhere else.
They're grasping for needles.
I'm in my reclining years.
They just want to shoot the fat.
Just remember that, and then forget it.
That's a tough nut to carry on your back.
A stop-gap measure is better than no gap at all.
That was the corker in the bottle.
Have the seeds we've sown fallen on deaf ears?
I'm going to scream right out of my gourd.
He's reached the crescent of his success.
Don't do anything I wouldn't do standing up in a hammock.
A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.
He has his ass on the wrong end of his head.
He's tossing symbols around like a percussionist in a John Philip Sousa band.
There are too many cooks and not enough indians.
I'm stone cold sane.
No sooner said, the better.
It's under closed doors.
He'll get his neck in hot water.
He has a marvelous way of extruding you.
Keep your ear peeled!
Too many chiefs spoil the soup.
It's no sweat off my nose.
It's like talking to a needle in a haystack.
I'm looking at it with a jaundiced ear.
They're colder than blue blazes.
Our backs are up the wall.
I'm going to litigate it to the eyeballs.
He disappeared from nowhere.
Let's talk to the horse's mouth.
He was putrified with fright.
Let them hang in their own juice.
Pour sand on troubled waters.
An ounce of prevention is better than pounding the table.
They've got the bull by the tail now.
I'm up to my earballs in garbage.
His foot is in his mouth up to his ear.
Don't make a tempest out of a teapot.
It's bouncing like a greased pig.
By a streak of coincidence, it really happened.
I had her by the nap of the neck.
I'd like to put another foot into the pot.
That's the other end of the coin.
The lights are so bright the air is opaque.
Put your mouth where your money is.
There's a dark cloud on every rainbow's horizon.
It may seem incredulous, but it's true.
I don't want to throw a wrench in the ointment.
I was working my balls to the bone.
We have achieved a wide specter of support.
I'd have been bent out of shape like spades.
Let him be rent from limb to limb.
That was like getting the horse before the barn.
I heard it out of the corner of my eyes.
My foot is going out of its mind.
She'll fight it tooth and toenail.
It's enough to make you want to rot your socks.
It's the straw that broke the ice.
At the end of every pot of gold, there's a rainbow.
Right off the top of my cuff, I don' know what to say.
We have a wide range of broad-gauge people.
He's as crazy as a bloody loon!
I've got applicants up to the ears.
We have a real ball of wax to unravel.
I have feedback on both sides of the coin.
My mind went blank and I had to wait until the dust cleared.
He popped out of nowhere like a jack-in-the-bean-box.
I speak only with olive branches dripping from the corners of my mouth.
He flipped his cork.
Everything is ipso facto.
He has feet of molasses.
They'll carve that spectrum any way we desire it.
He keeps his ear to the vine.
He's not breathing a muscle.
Our deal fell through the boards.
No crumbs gather under his feet.
One man's curiosity is another man's Pandora's box.
A dog under any other coat is still a dog.
Don't rattle the boat.
That was a mere peanut in the bucket.
It's not my cup of pie.
There will be fangs flying.
He's bailing him out of the woods.
It's so unbelievable you wouldn't believe it.
That's the whole ball of snakes.
She makes Raquel Welch look like Twiggy standing backwards.
The ball is in our lap.
Let him fry in his own juice.
Strange bedfellows flock together.
We don't want to get enhangled in that either.
This work was the understatement of the year.
It's not his bag of tea.
I just pulled those out of the seat of my pants.
I'm listening with baited ears.
Rome wasn't built on good intentions alone.
Don't look a mixed bag in the mouth.
If anything, I bend over on the backwards side.
Men, women, and children first!
It's a lot of passed water under the bridge.
I accept it with both barrels.
Don't throw the dog's blanket over the horse's nose.
That would drive him right out of his banana.
It's not really hide nor hair.
I can remember everything \(em I have a pornographic mind.
It's all above and beyond board.
It sounds like roses to my ears.
I'm walking on cloud nine.
It's the other end of the kettle of fish.
It's another millstone in the millpond of life.
It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel.
Let me flame your fan.
I looked at it with some askance.
I've had it up to the hilt.
Don't eat with your mouth full.
Have it prepared under my signature.
I'm ground up to a high pitch.
Don't twiddle your knee-caps at me!
It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed at all.
Before they made him they broke the mold.
That's not my sack of worms.
It's all water under the dam.
There hasn't been much of a peep about it.
Not on your bootstraps!
See the forest through the trees.
I'm going to down-peddle that aspect.
Indiscretion is the better part of valor.
We are paying for the sins of serenity.
I've built enough fudge into that factor.
That didn't amount to a hill of worms.
They descended on me like a hoar of locust.
Don't upset the apple pie.
It got left out in the lurch.
Please come here ipso pronto.
It's a home of contention.
It's got all the bugs and whistles.
My dog was pent up all day.
I don't want to stick my hand in the mouth that's feeding me.
It hit me to the core.
I'd better get my horse on it's ass.
I don't like the feel of this ball of wax.
They don't like to dictate themselves to the problem.
I'm ready to go when the bell opens.
It's the vilest smell I ever heard.
There's some noise afoot about the problem.
It was a maelstrom around his neck.
I'll take any warm body in a storm.
If the shoe fits, put it in your mouth.
I keep stubbing my shins.
It's as flat as a door knob.
It looks real enough to be artificial.
I'm flapping at the gills.
That'll take the steam out of their sails.
Clean up or fly right.
Another day, a different dollar.
I'm going to resolve it by ear.
Look before you turn the other cheek.
This program has many weaknesses, but its strongest weakness remains to be seen.
To coin a cliche, let's have at them.
Don't let the camels get their feet in the door.
He has his crutches around her throat.
He's restoring order to chaos.
They's chomping their lips at the prospect.
Let's get down to brass facts.
He reads memos with a fine tooth comb.
It goes in one era and out the other.
We got the story post hoc.
They're dropping his course like flies.
Is there any place we can pull a chink out of the log jam?
I contributed to the charity of my cause.
I haven't gotten the knack down yet.
It cuts like a hot knife through solid rock.
He's got a rat's nest by the tail.
There's some trash to be separated from the chaff.
I'd like to strike while the inclination is hot.
He deserves a well-rounded hand of applause.
He grates me the wrong way.
He's off in a cloud of ``hearty heigh-ho Silver''.
It's a white herring.
Time and tide strike but once.
He's splitting up at the seams.
He's got so much zap he can barely twitch.
He is as dishonest as the day is long.
I apologize on cringed knees.
Feather your den with somebody else's nest.
It drove me to no wits end.
I pulled my feet out from under my rug.
We are on equally unfooted ground.
Let me clarify my fumbling.
He knows which side of his bread his goose is buttered on.
To the cook goes the broth!
Half a loaf is better than two in the bush.
He's being shifted from shuttle to cock.
Look at the camera and say `bird'.
Let's solve two problems with one bird.
They don't stand a teabag's chance in hell.
I'm too uptight for my own bootstraps.
It will take a while to ravel down.
Right off the top of my hand, I'd say no.
He's within eyeshot of shore.
I'd rather be tight than right.
It has more punch to the unch.
I'm not going to beat a dead horse to death.
It will spurn a lot of furious action.
They are straining at nits.
Let me throw a monkey wrench in the ointment.
I'm all ravelled up.
My steam is wearing down.
Put that in your pocket and smoke it!
I'm creaking at the seams.
Nobody marches with the same drummer.
The hand is on the wall.
That would have been right up Harry's meat.
I'm throwing those ideas to you off the top of my hat.
It runs the full width of the totem pole.
I want to get to know them on a face-to-name basis.
He's like sheep in a bullpen.
That's a whole new ballpark.
Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.
I'm up against a blind wall.
Let's wreck havoc!
She's steel wool and a yard wide.
Let them fry in their socks.
It's not my Diet of Worms.
My mind is a vacuum of information.
Don't cast a gander upon the water.
It's a new high in lows.
He's a little clog in a big wheel.
Just because it's there, you don't have to mount it.
He and his group are two different people.
Let's not open the skeleton in that closet.
He's on the back of the pecking order.
He wants to get his nose wet in several areas.
A lot of things are going to be bywashed.
The fruits of our labors are about to be felt.
We can clean ourselves right up to date.
I'm soaked to the teeth.
Watch her \(em she gets on the stick very quickly.
He has the courage of a second-storey man.
I have the self-discipline of a mouse.
Its coming down like buckets outside.
That's way down in the chicken feed.
By the time we unlock the bandages, he will have gone down the drain.
It's like pulling hen's teeth.
It's a monkey wrench in your ointment.
A buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.
He's the best programmer east of the Mason-Dixon line.
He's sharp as a whip.
I don't want to start hurdling profanity.
I wish somebody could drop the other foot.
He's the last straw on the camel's back to be called.
Those are good practices to avoid.
He drinks like a sieve.
I'm going to scatter them like chaff before the wind.
I'm weighted down with baited breath.
Erase that indelibly from your memory.