1 A buck in the hand is worth two on the books. 2 % 3 A carpenter's son doesn't have shoes. 4 % 5 A dog under any other coat is still a dog. 6 % 7 A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else. 8 % 9 A lot of these arguments are fetious. 10 % 11 A lot of things are going to be bywashed. 12 % 13 A lot of water has gone over the bridge since then. 14 % 15 A problem swept under the table occasionally comes home to roost. 16 % 17 A rocky road is easier to travel than a stone wall. 18 % 19 A stop-gap measure is better than no gap at all. 20 % 21 A whole hog is better than no hole at all. 22 % 23 Abandon ship all you who enter here! 24 % 25 After that, we'll break our gums on the computer. 26 % 27 All the hills of beans in China don't matter. 28 % 29 All the lemmings are coming home to roost. 30 % 31 All the lemmings are going home to roost. 32 % 33 All you have to do is fill in the missing blanks. 34 % 35 An avalanche is nipping at their heels. 36 % 37 An enigma is only as good as its bottom line. 38 % 39 An ounce of prevention is better than pounding the table. 40 % 41 And I take the blunt of it! 42 % 43 Another day, a different dollar. 44 % 45 Any kneecap of yours is a friend of mine. 46 % 47 Any storm in a port. 48 % 49 Anybody who marries her would stand out like a sore thumb. 50 % 51 Anything he wants is a friend of mine. 52 % 53 Are there any problems we haven't beat out to death? 54 % 55 As long as somebody let the cat out of the bag, we might as well 56 spell it correctly. 57 % 58 At the end of every pot of gold, there's a rainbow. 59 % 60 Before they made him they broke the mold. 61 % 62 Beware a Trojan bearing a horse. 63 % 64 Boulder dash! 65 % 66 By a streak of coincidence, it really happened. 67 % 68 By the time we unlock the bandages, he will have gone down the drain. 69 % 70 Cheapness doesn't come free. 71 % 72 Clean up or fly right. 73 % 74 Clean up your own can of worms! 75 % 76 Come down off your charlie horse. 77 % 78 Conceptual things are in the eye of the beholder. 79 % 80 Deep water runs still. 81 % 82 Dig a hole and bury it. 83 % 84 Dig yourself a hole and bury it. 85 % 86 Do it now; don't dingle-dally over it. 87 % 88 Do not fumble with a woman's logic. 89 % 90 Does it joggle any bells? 91 % 92 Don't bite the hand that stabs you in the back. 93 % 94 Don't burn your bridges until you come to them. 95 % 96 Don't cash in your chips until the shill is down. 97 % 98 Don't cast a gander upon the water. 99 % 100 Don't cast any dispersions. 101 % 102 Don't cast doubts on troubled waters. 103 % 104 Don't count your chickens until the barn door is closed. 105 % 106 Don't criticize him for lack of inexperience. 107 % 108 Don't cut off the limb you've got your neck strung out on. 109 % 110 Don't do anything I wouldn't do standing up in a hammock. 111 % 112 Don't eat with your mouth full. 113 % 114 Don't get your eye out of joint. 115 % 116 Don't jump off the gun. 117 % 118 Don't jump off the handle. 119 % 120 Don't jump on a ship that's going down in flames. 121 % 122 Don't just stand there like a sitting duck. 123 % 124 Don't lead them down the garden path and cut them off at the knees. 125 % 126 Don't leave the nest that feeds you. 127 % 128 Don't let the camels get their feet in the door. 129 % 130 Don't look a gift horse in the face. 131 % 132 Don't look a mixed bag in the mouth. 133 % 134 Don't look at me in that tone of voice. 135 % 136 Don't look for a gift in the horse's mouth. 137 % 138 Don't make a molehill out of a can of beans. 139 % 140 Don't make a tempest out of a teapot. 141 % 142 Don't muddle the waters. 143 % 144 Don't pull a panic button. 145 % 146 Don't pull an enigma on me. 147 % 148 Don't put all you irons on the fire in one pot. 149 % 150 Don't rattle the boat. 151 % 152 Don't rock the boat that feeds you. 153 % 154 Don't roll up your nostrils at me. 155 % 156 Don't stick your oar in muddy waters. 157 % 158 Don't strike any bells while the fire is hot. 159 % 160 Don't talk to me with your clothes on. 161 % 162 Don't talk with your mouth open. 163 % 164 Don't throw the baby out with the dishwasher. 165 % 166 Don't throw the dog's blanket over the horse's nose. 167 % 168 Don't twiddle your knee-caps at me! 169 % 170 Don't upset the apple pie. 171 % 172 Dot your t's and cross your i's. 173 % 174 Drop the other foot, for Christ's sake! 175 % 176 Each of us sleazes by at our own pace. 177 % 178 Erase that indelibly from your memory. 179 % 180 Every cloud has a blue horizon. 181 % 182 Every rainbow has a silver lining. 183 % 184 Everything is going all bananas. 185 % 186 Everything is ipso facto. 187 % 188 Everything is mutually intertangled. 189 % 190 Everything's all ruffled over. 191 % 192 Fade out in a blaze of glory. 193 % 194 Feather your den with somebody else's nest. 195 % 196 Fellow alumni run thicker than water. 197 % 198 Fish or get off the pot! 199 % 200 Float off into several individual conferees. 201 % 202 For all intensive purposes, the act is over. 203 % 204 From here on up, it's down hill all the way. 205 % 206 Gander your eye at that! 207 % 208 Gee, it must have fallen into one of my cracks. 209 % 210 Get off the stick and do something. 211 % 212 Get the hot poop right off the vine. 213 % 214 Getting him to do anything is like pulling hen's teeth. 215 % 216 Give him a project to get his teeth wet on. 217 % 218 Give him a square shake. 219 % 220 Give him an inch and he'll screw you. 221 % 222 Give him enough rope and he will run away with it. 223 % 224 Go fly your little red wagon somewhere else. 225 % 226 Good grace is in the eye of the beholder. 227 % 228 Good riddance aforethought. 229 % 230 Half a loaf is better than two in the bush. 231 % 232 Half a worm is better than none. 233 % 234 Hands were made before feet. 235 % 236 Have it prepared under my signature. 237 % 238 Have more discretion in the face of valor. 239 % 240 Have the seeds we've sown fallen on deaf ears? 241 % 242 Have we been cast a strange eye at? 243 % 244 Have we gone too fast too far? 245 % 246 He has a dire need, actually it's half-dire, but he thinks 247 it's double-dire. 248 % 249 He may be the greatest piece of cheese that ever walked down 250 the plank. 251 % 252 He and his group are two different people. 253 % 254 He came in on my own volition. 255 % 256 He can't hack the other can of worms. 257 % 258 He choked on his own craw. 259 % 260 He deserves a well-rounded hand of applause. 261 % 262 He didn't even bat an eyebrow. 263 % 264 He didn't flinch an eyelid. 265 % 266 He disappeared from nowhere. 267 % 268 He doesn't have the brain to rub two nickels together. 269 % 270 He doesn't know which side his head is buttered on. 271 % 272 He drinks like a sieve. 273 % 274 He flipped his cork. 275 % 276 He gave me a blanket check. 277 % 278 He got taken right through the nose. 279 % 280 He got up on his highheels. 281 % 282 He grates me the wrong way. 283 % 284 He has a marvelous way of extruding you. 285 % 286 He has a very weak indigestion. 287 % 288 He has a wool of steel. 289 % 290 He has feet of molasses. 291 % 292 He has his ass on the wrong end of his head. 293 % 294 He has his crutches around her throat. 295 % 296 He has his foot in the pie. 297 % 298 He has his neck out on a limb. 299 % 300 He has his pot in too many pies. 301 % 302 He has the character of navel lint. 303 % 304 He has the courage of a second-story man. 305 % 306 He hit the nose right on the head. 307 % 308 He is as dishonest as the day is long. 309 % 310 He just sat there like a bump on a wart. 311 % 312 He keeps his ear to the vine. 313 % 314 He knows which side his pocketbook is buttered on. 315 % 316 He knows which side of his bread his goose is buttered on. 317 % 318 He needs to get blown out of his water. 319 % 320 He popped out of nowhere like a jack-in-the-bean-box. 321 % 322 He pulled himself up on top of his own bootstraps. 323 % 324 He rammed it down their ears. 325 % 326 He reads memos with a fine tooth comb. 327 % 328 He rules with an iron thumb. 329 % 330 He said it thumb in cheek. 331 % 332 He should be gracious for small favors. 333 % 334 He smokes like a fish. 335 % 336 He wants to get his nose wet in several areas. 337 % 338 He was hoisted by a skyhook on his own petard! 339 % 340 He was hoisted by his own canard. 341 % 342 He was hung by his own bootstraps. 343 % 344 He was left out on the lurch. 345 % 346 He was putrified with fright. 347 % 348 He wears his finger on his sleeve. 349 % 350 He would forget his head if it weren't screwed up. 351 % 352 Heads are rolling in the aisles. 353 % 354 He'll get his neck in hot water. 355 % 356 He'll grease any palm that will pat his ass. 357 % 358 He's tossing symbols around like a percussionist in a John 359 Philip Sousa band. 360 % 361 He's a bulldog in a china shop. 362 % 363 He's a child progeny. 364 % 365 He's a fart off the old block. 366 % 367 He's a lion in a den of Daniels. 368 % 369 He's a little clog in a big wheel. 370 % 371 He's a shirking violet. 372 % 373 He's a wolf in sheep's underware. 374 % 375 He's a young peeksqueek. 376 % 377 He's as crazy as a bloody loon! 378 % 379 He's as crazy as a fruitcake. 380 % 381 He's as happy as a pig at high tide. 382 % 383 He's as quick as an eyelash. 384 % 385 He's bailing him out of the woods. 386 % 387 He's been living off his laurels for years. 388 % 389 He's being pruned for the job. 390 % 391 He's being shifted from shuttle to cock. 392 % 393 He's biting the shaft and getting the short end of the problem. 394 % 395 He's breathing down my throat. 396 % 397 He's casting a red herring on the face of the water. 398 % 399 He's clam bait. 400 % 401 He's cornered on all sides. 402 % 403 He's faster than the naked eye. 404 % 405 He's fuming at the seams. 406 % 407 He's going to fall flat on his feet. 408 % 409 He's got a rat's nest by the tail. 410 % 411 He's got a tough axe to hoe. 412 % 413 He's got four sheets in the wind. 414 % 415 He's got his intentions crossed. 416 % 417 He's got so much zap he can barely twitch. 418 % 419 He's king bee. 420 % 421 He's letting ground grow under his feet. 422 % 423 He's like a wine glass in a storm. 424 % 425 He's like sheep in a bullpen. 426 % 427 He's lying through his britches. 428 % 429 He's not breathing a muscle. 430 % 431 He's off in a cloud of ``hearty heigh-ho Silver''. 432 % 433 He's on the back of the pecking order. 434 % 435 He's one of the world's greatest flamingo dancers. 436 % 437 He's paying through the neck. 438 % 439 He's procrastinating like a bandit. 440 % 441 He's reached the crescent of his success. 442 % 443 He's restoring order to chaos. 444 % 445 He's running around like a bull with his head cut off. 446 % 447 He's running around like a chicken with his ass cut off. 448 % 449 He's running around with his chicken cut off. 450 % 451 He's running from gamut to gamut. 452 % 453 He's running off at the seams. 454 % 455 He's salivating at the chops. 456 % 457 He's seething at the teeth. 458 % 459 He's sharp as a whip. 460 % 461 He's singing a little off-keel. 462 % 463 He's so far above me I can't reach his bootstraps. 464 % 465 He's so mad he is spitting wooden nickels. 466 % 467 He's somewhere down wind of the innuendo. 468 % 469 He's spending a lot of brunt on the task. 470 % 471 He's splitting up at the seams. 472 % 473 He's the best programmer east of the Mason-Dixon line. 474 % 475 He's the king of queens. 476 % 477 He's the last straw on the camel's back to be called. 478 % 479 He's too smart for his own bootstraps. 480 % 481 He's up a creek with his paddles leaking. 482 % 483 He's within eyeshot of shore. 484 % 485 His eyeballs perked up. 486 % 487 His feet have come home to roost. 488 % 489 His foot is in his mouth up to his ear. 490 % 491 His head's too big for his britches. 492 % 493 His position is not commiserate with his abilities. 494 % 495 History is just a repetition of the past. 496 % 497 Hold your cool! 498 % 499 How old is your 2-year old? 500 % 501 I speak only with olive branches dripping from the corners 502 of my mouth. 503 % 504 I accept it with both barrels. 505 % 506 I apologize on cringed knees. 507 % 508 I came within a hair's breathe of it. 509 % 510 I can do it with one eye tied behind me. 511 % 512 I can remember everything; I have a pornographic mind. 513 % 514 I can't hum a straight tune. 515 % 516 I case my ground very well before I jump into it. 517 % 518 I come to you on bended bootstrap. 519 % 520 I contributed to the charity of my cause. 521 % 522 I could count it on the fingers of one thumb. 523 % 524 I could tell you stories that would curdle your hair. 525 % 526 I did it sitting flat on my back. 527 % 528 I don't always play with a full house of cards. 529 % 530 I don't know which dagger to clothe it in. 531 % 532 I don't like the feel of this ball of wax. 533 % 534 I don't want to be the pie that upset the applecart. 535 % 536 I don't want to cast a pall on the water. 537 % 538 I don't want to start hurdling profanity. 539 % 540 I don't want to stick my hand in the mouth that's feeding me. 541 % 542 I don't want to throw a wrench in the ointment. 543 % 544 I enjoy his smiling continence. 545 % 546 I flew it by ear. 547 % 548 I got you by the nap of your neck. 549 % 550 I guess I'd better get my duff on the road. 551 % 552 I guess I'm putting all my birds in one pie. 553 % 554 I guess that muddled the waters. 555 % 556 I had her by the nap of the neck. 557 % 558 I had to make a split decision. 559 % 560 I had to scratch in the back recesses of my memory. 561 % 562 I had to throw in the white flag. 563 % 564 I have a green thumb up to my elbow. 565 % 566 I have a rot-gut feeling about that. 567 % 568 I have feedback on both sides of the coin. 569 % 570 I have my neck hung out on an open line. 571 % 572 I have no personal bones to grind about it. 573 % 574 I have people crawling out of my ears. 575 % 576 I have post-naval drip. 577 % 578 I have reasonably zero desire to do it. 579 % 580 I have the self-discipline of a mouse. 581 % 582 I have to get my guts up. 583 % 584 I have too many cooks in the pot already. 585 % 586 I haven't bitten off an easy nut. 587 % 588 I haven't gotten the knack down yet. 589 % 590 I hear the handwriting on the wall. 591 % 592 I heard it out of the corner of my eyes. 593 % 594 I just pulled those out of the seat of my pants. 595 % 596 I keep stubbing my shins. 597 % 598 I know what we have to do to get our feet off the ground. 599 % 600 I listen with a very critical eye. 601 % 602 I looked at it with some askance. 603 % 604 I march to a different kettle of fish. 605 % 606 I only hear half of what I believe. 607 % 608 I only hope your every wish is desired. 609 % 610 I only mentioned it to give you another side of the horse. 611 % 612 I only read it in snips and snabs. 613 % 614 I owe you a great gratitude of thanks. 615 % 616 I pulled my feet out from under my rug. 617 % 618 I put all my marbles in one basket. 619 % 620 I read the sign, but it went in one ear and out the other. 621 % 622 I resent the insinuendoes. 623 % 624 I rushed around like a chicken out of my head. 625 % 626 I said it beneath my breath. 627 % 628 I see several little worms raising their heads around the corner. 629 % 630 I think he's gone over the bend. 631 % 632 I think I've committed a fore paw. 633 % 634 I think that we are making an out-and-out molehill of this issue. 635 % 636 I think the real crux is the matter. 637 % 638 I thought I'd fall out of my gourd. 639 % 640 I want half a cake and eat it too. 641 % 642 I want to embark upon your qualms. 643 % 644 I want to get more fire into the iron. 645 % 646 I want to get to know them on a face-to-name basis. 647 % 648 I want to go into that at short length. 649 % 650 I want to see him get a good hands-on feel. 651 % 652 I was working my balls to the bone. 653 % 654 I wish somebody could drop the other foot. 655 % 656 I won't hang my laurels on it. 657 % 658 I won't kick a gift horse in the mouth. 659 % 660 I worked my toes to the bonenail. 661 % 662 I would imagine he chafes a bit. 663 % 664 I wouldn't give it to a wet dog. 665 % 666 I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole. 667 % 668 I wouldn't take him on a ten foot pole. 669 % 670 I wouldn't want to be sitting in his shoes. 671 % 672 I'd better get my horse on its ass. 673 % 674 I'd better jack up my bootstraps and get going. 675 % 676 I'd have been bent out of shape like spades. 677 % 678 I'd kill a dog to bite that man. 679 % 680 I'd like to intersperse a comment. 681 % 682 I'd like to put another foot into the pot. 683 % 684 I'd like to strike while the inclination is hot. 685 % 686 I'd rather be tight than right. 687 % 688 If they do that, they'll be committing suicide for the rest of 689 their lives. 690 % 691 If they had to stand on their own two feet, they would have gone 692 down the drain a long time ago. 693 % 694 If we keep going this way, somebody is going to be left standing 695 at the church with his pants on. 696 % 697 If you don't want words put in your mouth, don't leave it 698 hanging open. 699 % 700 If anything, I bend over on the backwards side. 701 % 702 If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. 703 % 704 If the onus fits, wear it. 705 % 706 If the shoe fits, put it in your mouth. 707 % 708 If the shoe is on the other foot, wear it. 709 % 710 If there's no fire, don't make waves. 711 % 712 If they do it there won't be a living orgasm left. 713 % 714 If you ask him he could wax very quickly on that subject. 715 % 716 If you listen in the right tone of voice, you'll hear what I mean. 717 % 718 If you see loose strings that have to be tied down that are not 719 nailed up, see me about it. 720 % 721 If you want something bad enough, you have to pay the price. 722 % 723 If you want to be heard, go directly to the horse's ear. 724 % 725 If you want to get your jollies off, watch this! 726 % 727 If you'd let me, I'd forget the shirt off my back. 728 % 729 If you're going to break a chicken, you have to scramble a few eggs. 730 % 731 I'll be ready just in case a windfall comes down the pike. 732 % 733 I'll be there in the next foreseeable future. 734 % 735 I'll be there with spades one. 736 % 737 I'll bet there's one guy out in the woodwork. 738 % 739 I'll descend on them to the bone. 740 % 741 I'll fight him hand and nail. 742 % 743 I'll hit him right between the teeth. 744 % 745 I'll procrastinate when I get around to it. 746 % 747 I'll reek the benefits. 748 % 749 I'll see it when I believe it. 750 % 751 I'll stay away from that like a 10-foot pole. 752 % 753 I'll take a few pegs out of his sails. 754 % 755 I'll take any warm body in a storm. 756 % 757 I'm a mere fragment of my imagination. 758 % 759 I'm all ravelled up. 760 % 761 I'm basking in his shadow. 762 % 763 I'm burning my bridges out from under me! 764 % 765 I'm casting the dye on the face of the water. 766 % 767 I'm collapsing around the seams. 768 % 769 I'm creaking at the seams. 770 % 771 I'm creaming off the top of my head. 772 % 773 I'm deathly curious. 774 % 775 I'm flapping at the gills. 776 % 777 I'm going off tangentially. 778 % 779 I'm going right out of my bonker. 780 % 781 I'm going right over the bend. 782 % 783 I'm going to cast my rocks to the wind. 784 % 785 I'm going to down-peddle that aspect. 786 % 787 I'm going to feel it out by the ear. 788 % 789 I'm going to litigate it to the eyeballs. 790 % 791 I'm going to put a little variety in your spice of life. 792 % 793 I'm going to put my horn in. 794 % 795 I'm going to read between your lines. 796 % 797 I'm going to resolve it by ear. 798 % 799 I'm going to scatter them like chaff before the wind. 800 % 801 I'm going to scream right out of my gourd. 802 % 803 I'm going to take my vendetta out on them. 804 % 805 I'm going to take my venom out on you. 806 % 807 I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut. 808 % 809 I'm ground up to a high pitch. 810 % 811 I'm having a hard time getting my handles around that one. 812 % 813 I'm in my reclining years. 814 % 815 I'm in transit on that point. 816 % 817 I'm listening with baited ears. 818 % 819 I'm looking at it with a jaundiced ear. 820 % 821 I'm not going to bail him out of his own juice. 822 % 823 I'm not going to beat a dead horse to death. 824 % 825 I'm not going to get side tracked onto a tangent. 826 % 827 I'm not sure it's my bag of tea. 828 % 829 I'm not sure we're all speaking from the same sheet of music. 830 % 831 I'm not trying to grind anybody's axes. 832 % 833 I'm out of my bloomin' loon. 834 % 835 I'm over the hilt. 836 % 837 I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles. 838 % 839 I'm pulling something over on you. 840 % 841 I'm ready to go when the bell opens. 842 % 843 I'm running around like a one-armed paper bandit. 844 % 845 I'm signing my own death knell. 846 % 847 I'm sitting on the edge of my ice. 848 % 849 I'm smarting at the seams. 850 % 851 I'm soaked to the teeth. 852 % 853 I'm standing over your shoulder. 854 % 855 I'm sticking my neck out on a ledge. 856 % 857 I'm stone cold sane. 858 % 859 I'm talking up a dead alley. 860 % 861 I'm throwing those ideas to you off the top of my hat. 862 % 863 I'm too uptight for my own bootstraps. 864 % 865 I'm up a wrong alley. 866 % 867 I'm up against a blind wall. 868 % 869 I'm up to my earballs in garbage. 870 % 871 I'm walking on cloud nine. 872 % 873 I'm walking on thin water. 874 % 875 I'm weighted down with baited breath. 876 % 877 I'm willing to throw my two cents into the fire. 878 % 879 I'm working my blood up into a fervor. 880 % 881 I'm wound up like a cork. 882 % 883 I'm your frontface in this matter. 884 % 885 In one mouth and out the other. 886 % 887 In this period of time, its getting very short. 888 % 889 In this vein I will throw out another item for Pandora' box. 890 % 891 Indiscretion is the better part of valor. 892 % 893 Is he an Amazon! 894 % 895 Is there any place we can pull a chink out of the log jam? 896 % 897 It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed 898 at all. 899 % 900 It cuts like a hot knife through solid rock. 901 % 902 It drove me to no wits end. 903 % 904 It fills a well-needed gap. 905 % 906 It floated right to the bottom. 907 % 908 It flows like water over the stream. 909 % 910 It gets grained into you. 911 % 912 It goes from one gamut to another. 913 % 914 It goes from tippy top to tippy bottom. 915 % 916 It goes in one era and out the other. 917 % 918 It goes out one ear and in the other. 919 % 920 It got left out in the lurch. 921 % 922 It has more punch to the unch. 923 % 924 It hit me to the core. 925 % 926 It hit the epitome of it. 927 % 928 It leaks like a fish. 929 % 930 It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while. 931 % 932 It looks real enough to be artificial. 933 % 934 It may seem incredulous, but it's true. 935 % 936 It might break the straw that holds the camel's back. 937 % 938 It might have been a figment of my illusion. 939 % 940 It' not an easy thing to get your teeth around. 941 % 942 It rolls off her back like a duck. 943 % 944 It runs the full width of the totem pole. 945 % 946 It sounds like roses to my ears. 947 % 948 It sure hits the people between the head. 949 % 950 It was a heart-rendering decision. 951 % 952 It was a maelstrom around his neck. 953 % 954 It was deja vu all over again. 955 % 956 It was oozing right out of the lurches. 957 % 958 It was really amazing to see the spectra of people there. 959 % 960 It went through the palm of my shoe. 961 % 962 It will spurn a lot of furious action. 963 % 964 It will take a while to ravel down. 965 % 966 It's like asking a man to stop eating in the middle of a starvation diet. 967 % 968 It's a Byzantine thicket of quicksand. 969 % 970 It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing. 971 % 972 It's a fiat accompli. 973 % 974 It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing. 975 % 976 It's a hairy banana. 977 % 978 It's a hairy can of worms. 979 % 980 It's a home of contention. 981 % 982 It's a lot like recumbent DNA. 983 % 984 It's a lot of passed water under the bridge. 985 % 986 It's a mare's nest in sheep's clothing. 987 % 988 It's a mecca of people. 989 % 990 It's a monkey wrench in your ointment. 991 % 992 It's a new high in lows. 993 % 994 It's a road of hard knocks. 995 % 996 It's a sight for sore ears. 997 % 998 It's a slap in the chaps. 999 % 1000 It's a tempest in a teacup. 1001 % 1002 It's a terrible crutch to bear. 1003 % 1004 It's a tough nut to hoe. 1005 % 1006 It's a tough road to haul. 1007 % 1008 It's a travesty to the human spirit. 1009 % 1010 It's a typical case of alligator mouth and hummingbird ass. 1011 % 1012 It's a useful ace in the pocket. 1013 % 1014 It's a white elephant around my neck. 1015 % 1016 It's a white herring. 1017 % 1018 It's about 15 feet as the eye flies. 1019 % 1020 It's about as satisfactory as falling off a log. 1021 % 1022 It's all above and beyond board. 1023 % 1024 It's all in knowing when to let a dead horse die. 1025 % 1026 It's all water under the dam. 1027 % 1028 It's always better to be safe than have your neck out on a limb. 1029 % 1030 It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody. 1031 % 1032 It's another millstone in the millpond of life. 1033 % 1034 It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake. 1035 % 1036 It's as flat as a door knob. 1037 % 1038 It's as predictable as cherry pie. 1039 % 1040 It's bouncing like a greased pig. 1041 % 1042 It's burned to shreds. 1043 % 1044 Its coming down like buckets outside. 1045 % 1046 It's crumbling at the seams. 1047 % 1048 It's enough to make you want to rot your socks. 1049 % 1050 It's going to bog everybody up. 1051 % 1052 It's going to fall on its ass from within. 1053 % 1054 It's got all the bugs and whistles. 1055 % 1056 It's hanging out like a sore tongue. 1057 % 1058 It's like a greased pig in a wet blanket. 1059 % 1060 It's like a knife through hot butter. 1061 % 1062 It's like a raft on roller skates. 1063 % 1064 It's like harnessing a hare to a tortoise. 1065 % 1066 It's like pulling hen's teeth. 1067 % 1068 It's like talking to a needle in a haystack. 1069 % 1070 It's like the flood of the Hesperis. 1071 % 1072 It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel. 1073 % 1074 It's like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. 1075 % 1076 It's more than the mind can boggle. 1077 % 1078 It's music to your eyes. 1079 % 1080 It's no chip off my clock. 1081 % 1082 It's no skin off my stiff upper lip. 1083 % 1084 It's no sweat off my nose. 1085 % 1086 It's not an easy thing to get your teeth wet on. 1087 % 1088 It's not completely an unblessed advantage. 1089 % 1090 It's not his bag of tea. 1091 % 1092 It's not my cup of pie. 1093 % 1094 It's not my Diet of Worms. 1095 % 1096 It's not really hide nor hair. 1097 % 1098 It's one more cog in the wheel. 1099 % 1100 It's perfect, but it will have to do. 1101 % 1102 It's raining like a bandit. 1103 % 1104 It's right on the tip of my head. 1105 % 1106 It's sloppy mismanagement. 1107 % 1108 It's so unbelievable you wouldn't believe it. 1109 % 1110 It's something you're all dying to wait for. 1111 % 1112 It's the blind leading the deaf. 1113 % 1114 It's the greatest little seaport in town. 1115 % 1116 It's the old chicken-in-the-egg problem. 1117 % 1118 It's the old Paul Revere bit . . . one if by two and two if by one. 1119 % 1120 It's the other end of the kettle of fish. 1121 % 1122 It's the straw that broke the ice. 1123 % 1124 It's the highest of the lows. 1125 % 1126 It's the vilest smell I ever heard. 1127 % 1128 It's time to take off our gloves and talk from the heart. 1129 % 1130 It's under closed doors. 1131 % 1132 It's within the pall of reason. 1133 % 1134 It's wrought with problems. 1135 % 1136 It's your ball of wax, you unravel it. 1137 % 1138 I've been burning the midnight hours. 1139 % 1140 I've built enough fudge into that factor. 1141 % 1142 I've got applicants up to the ears. 1143 % 1144 I've got to put my duff to the grindstone. 1145 % 1146 I've had it up to the hilt. 1147 % 1148 I've had more girls than you've got hair between your teeth. 1149 % 1150 I've milked that dead end for all it's worth. 1151 % 1152 I've worked my shins to the bone. 1153 % 1154 Judas Proust! 1155 % 1156 Just because it's there, you don't have to mount it. 1157 % 1158 Just cut a thin slither of it. 1159 % 1160 Just remember that, and then forget it. 1161 % 1162 Keep the water as firm as possible until a fellow has his feet on the ground. 1163 % 1164 Keep this under your vest. 1165 % 1166 Keep your ear peeled! 1167 % 1168 Keep your eyes geared to the situation. 1169 % 1170 Keep your nose to the mark. 1171 % 1172 Keep your nose to the plow. 1173 % 1174 Lay a bugaboo to rest. 1175 % 1176 Let he who casts the first stone cast it in concrete. 1177 % 1178 Let him be rent from limb to limb. 1179 % 1180 Let him fry in his own juice. 1181 % 1182 Let it slip between the cracks. 1183 % 1184 Let me clarify my fumbling. 1185 % 1186 Let me feast your ears. 1187 % 1188 Let me flame your fan. 1189 % 1190 Let me say a word before I throw in the reins. 1191 % 1192 Let me take you under my thumb. 1193 % 1194 Let me throw a monkey into the wrench. 1195 % 1196 Let me throw a monkey wrench in the ointment. 1197 % 1198 Let sleeping uncertainties lie. 1199 % 1200 Let them fry in their socks. 1201 % 1202 Let them hang in their own juice. 1203 % 1204 Let's bend a few lapels. 1205 % 1206 Let's get down to brass facts. 1207 % 1208 Let's go outside and commiserate with nature. 1209 % 1210 Let's grab the initiative by the horns. 1211 % 1212 Let's kick the bucket with a certain amount of daintiness. 1213 % 1214 Let's kill two dogs with one bone. 1215 % 1216 Let's look at it from the other side of the view. 1217 % 1218 Let's lurch into the next hour of the show. 1219 % 1220 Let's not drag any more dead herrings across the garden path. 1221 % 1222 Let's not get ahead of the bandwagon. 1223 % 1224 Let's not hurdle into too many puddles at once. 1225 % 1226 Let's not open the skeleton in that closet. 1227 % 1228 Let's play the other side of the coin. 1229 % 1230 Let's put out a smeller. 1231 % 1232 Let's raise our horizons. 1233 % 1234 Let's roll up our elbows and get to work. 1235 % 1236 Let's set up a straw vote and knock it down. 1237 % 1238 Let's shoot holes at it. 1239 % 1240 Let's skin another can of worms. 1241 % 1242 Let's solve two problems with one bird. 1243 % 1244 Let's strike the fire before the iron gets hot. 1245 % 1246 Let's talk to the horse's mouth. 1247 % 1248 Let's wreck havoc! 1249 % 1250 Like the shoemaker's children, we have computers running out of our ears. 1251 % 1252 Look at the camera and say `bird'. 1253 % 1254 Look before you turn the other cheek. 1255 % 1256 Man cannot eat by bread alone. 1257 % 1258 May I inveigle on you? 1259 % 1260 Men, women, and children first! 1261 % 1262 Mind your own petard! 1263 % 1264 My antipathy runneth over. 1265 % 1266 My chicken house has come home to roost. 1267 % 1268 My dog was pent up all day. 1269 % 1270 My ebb is running low. 1271 % 1272 My foot is going out of its mind. 1273 % 1274 My head is twice its size. 1275 % 1276 My mind is a vacuum of information. 1277 % 1278 My mind slipped into another cog. 1279 % 1280 My mind went blank and I had to wait until the dust cleared. 1281 % 1282 My off-the-head reaction is negative. 1283 % 1284 My steam is wearing down. 1285 % 1286 My stomach gets all knotted up in rocks. 1287 % 1288 My train of thought went out to lunch. 1289 % 1290 Necessity is the invention of strange bedfellows. 1291 % 1292 Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows. 1293 % 1294 Never feed a hungry dog an empty loaf of bread. 1295 % 1296 Never the twixt should change. 1297 % 1298 No Californian will walk a mile if possible. 1299 % 1300 No crumbs gather under his feet. 1301 % 1302 No dust grows under her feet. 1303 % 1304 No loaf is better than half a loaf at all. 1305 % 1306 No moss grows on his stone. 1307 % 1308 No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls. 1309 % 1310 No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it. 1311 % 1312 No rocks grow on Charlie. 1313 % 1314 No sooner said, the better. 1315 % 1316 Nobody could fill his socks. 1317 % 1318 Nobody is going to give you the world in a saucer. 1319 % 1320 Nobody marches with the same drummer. 1321 % 1322 Nobody's going to put his neck out on a limb. 1323 % 1324 Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be. 1325 % 1326 Not all the irons in the fire will bear fruit or even come home to roost. 1327 % 1328 Not by the foggiest stretch of the imagination! 1329 % 1330 Not in a cocked hat, you don't! 1331 % 1332 Not in a pig's bladder you don't! 1333 % 1334 Not me, I didn't open my peep. 1335 % 1336 Not on your bootstraps! 1337 % 1338 Now he's sweating in his own pool. 1339 % 1340 Now the laugh is on the other foot! 1341 % 1342 Now we have some chance to cut new water. 1343 % 1344 One back scratches another. 1345 % 1346 One doesn't swallow the whole cake at the first sitting. 1347 % 1348 One man's curiosity is another man's Pandora's box. 1349 % 1350 Our backs are up the wall. 1351 % 1352 Our deal fell through the boards. 1353 % 1354 Peanut butter jelly go together hand over fist. 1355 % 1356 People in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black. 1357 % 1358 Picasso wasn't born in a day. 1359 % 1360 Pick them up from their bootstraps. 1361 % 1362 Pictures speak louder than words. 1363 % 1364 Please come here ipso pronto. 1365 % 1366 Pour sand on troubled waters. 1367 % 1368 Put all your money where your marbles are. 1369 % 1370 Put it in a guinea sack. 1371 % 1372 Put it on the back of the stove and let it simper. 1373 % 1374 Put that in your pocket and smoke it! 1375 % 1376 Put the onus on the other foot. 1377 % 1378 Put your mouth where your money is. 1379 % 1380 Right off the top of my cuff, I don' know what to say. 1381 % 1382 Right off the top of my hand, I'd say no. 1383 % 1384 Roll out the Ouija ball. 1385 % 1386 Rome wasn't built on good intentions alone. 1387 % 1388 Row, row, row your boat, gently down the drain. 1389 % 1390 See the forest through the trees. 1391 % 1392 She had a missed conception. 1393 % 1394 She had an aurora of goodness about her. 1395 % 1396 She has eyes like two holes in a burnt blanket. 1397 % 1398 She hit the nail on the nose. 1399 % 1400 She looks like she's been dead for several years, lately. 1401 % 1402 She makes Raquel Welch look like Twiggy standing backwards. 1403 % 1404 She stepped full-face on it. 1405 % 1406 She was sitting there with an insidious look on her face. 1407 % 1408 She'll fight it tooth and toenail. 1409 % 1410 She's a virgin who has never been defoliated. 1411 % 1412 She's flying off the deep end. 1413 % 1414 She's got a bee in her bonnet and just won't let it go. 1415 % 1416 She's melting out punishment. 1417 % 1418 She's steel wool and a yard wide. 1419 % 1420 She's trying to feather her own bush. 1421 % 1422 Shoot it up the flag pole. 1423 % 1424 Somebody is going to have to take a forefront here. 1425 % 1426 Somebody pushed the panic nerve. 1427 % 1428 Somebody's flubbing his dub. 1429 % 1430 Someone is going to be left in the church with his pants on. 1431 % 1432 Sometimes I don't have both sails in the water. 1433 % 1434 Speaking off the hand, I'd advise you to quit. 1435 % 1436 Straighten up or fly right. 1437 % 1438 Strange bedfellows flock together. 1439 % 1440 Take care of two stones with one bird. 1441 % 1442 Take it with a block of salt. 1443 % 1444 That aspect permutes the whole situation. 1445 % 1446 That curdles my toes. 1447 % 1448 That curdles the milk of human kindness. 1449 % 1450 That didn't amount to a hill of worms. 1451 % 1452 That doesn't cut any weight with him. 1453 % 1454 That job is at the bottom of the rung. 1455 % 1456 That makes me as mad as a wet hatter. 1457 % 1458 That opens up a whole other kettle of songs. 1459 % 1460 That problem is getting pushed into the horizon. 1461 % 1462 That puts me up a worse creek. 1463 % 1464 That really uprooted the apple cart. 1465 % 1466 That restaurant is so crowded no one goes there anymore. 1467 % 1468 That solves two stones with one bird. 1469 % 1470 That was a mere peanut in the bucket. 1471 % 1472 That was almost half done unconsciously. 1473 % 1474 That was like getting the horse before the barn. 1475 % 1476 That was the corker in the bottle. 1477 % 1478 That was the pan he was flashed in. 1479 % 1480 That would drive him right out of his banana. 1481 % 1482 That would have been right up Harry's meat. 1483 % 1484 That'll take the steam out of their sails. 1485 % 1486 That's a ball of another wax. 1487 % 1488 That's a bird of a different color. 1489 % 1490 That's a camel's eye strained through a gnat's tooth. 1491 % 1492 That's a different jar of worms. 1493 % 1494 That's a horse of a different feather. 1495 % 1496 That's a matter for sore eyes. 1497 % 1498 That's a measle-worded statement if I ever heard one. 1499 % 1500 That's a sight for deaf ears. 1501 % 1502 That's a tough nut to carry on your back. 1503 % 1504 That's a two-edged circle. 1505 % 1506 That's a whole new ballpark. 1507 % 1508 That's an unexpected surprise. 1509 % 1510 That's getting to the crotch of the matter. 1511 % 1512 That's just putting the gravy on the cake. 1513 % 1514 That's no sweat off my back. 1515 % 1516 That's not my sack of worms. 1517 % 1518 That's obviously a very different cup of fish. 1519 % 1520 That's pushing a dead horse. 1521 % 1522 That's the other end of the coin. 1523 % 1524 That's the straw that broke the camel's hump. 1525 % 1526 That's the wart that sank the camel's back. 1527 % 1528 That's the way the old ball game bounces. 1529 % 1530 That's the whole ball of snakes. 1531 % 1532 That's the whole kettle of fish in a nutshell. 1533 % 1534 That's the whole kit and caboose. 1535 % 1536 That's their applecart, let them choke on it. 1537 % 1538 That's water under the dam. 1539 % 1540 That's way down in the chicken feed. 1541 % 1542 That's when I first opened an eyelash. 1543 % 1544 That's worse than running chalk up and down your back. 1545 % 1546 The grass is always greener when you can't see the forest for the trees. 1547 % 1548 The aggressor is on the wrong foot. 1549 % 1550 The analogy is a deeply superficial one. 1551 % 1552 The atmosphere militates against a solution. 1553 % 1554 The ball is in our lap. 1555 % 1556 The die has been cast on the face of the waters. 1557 % 1558 The early bird will find his can of worms. 1559 % 1560 The early worm catches the fish. 1561 % 1562 The eggs we put all in one basket have come home to roost. 1563 % 1564 The faculty has cast a jaundiced eye upon the waters. 1565 % 1566 The fervor is so deep you can taste it. 1567 % 1568 The foot that rocks the cradle is usually in the mouth. 1569 % 1570 The fruits of our labors are about to be felt. 1571 % 1572 The future is not what it used to be. 1573 % 1574 The gremlins have gone off to roost on someone else's canard. 1575 % 1576 The grocer's son always has shoes. 1577 % 1578 The groundwork is thoroughly broken. 1579 % 1580 The hand is on the wall. 1581 % 1582 The horse is stolen before the barn even gets its door closed. 1583 % 1584 The idea did cross my head. 1585 % 1586 The ideas sprang full-blown from the hydra's heads. 1587 % 1588 The initiative is on the wrong foot. 1589 % 1590 The lights are so bright the air is opaque. 1591 % 1592 The meeting was a first-class riot squad. 1593 % 1594 The onus is on the other foot. 1595 % 1596 The pipeline has ramped up. 1597 % 1598 The restaurants are terrible; the town is completely indigestible. 1599 % 1600 The sink is shipping. 1601 % 1602 The up-kick of all that will be nothing. 1603 % 1604 The viewpoints run from hot to cold. 1605 % 1606 The whole thing is a hairy potpourri. 1607 % 1608 The wishbone's connected to the kneebone. 1609 % 1610 Their attitude is to let lying dogs sleep. 1611 % 1612 There are enough cooks in the pot already. 1613 % 1614 There are too many cooks and not enough Indians. 1615 % 1616 There are two sides to every marshmallow. 1617 % 1618 There hasn't been much of a peep about it. 1619 % 1620 There is a prolifery of new ideas. 1621 % 1622 There is no surefool way of proceeding. 1623 % 1624 There is one niche in his armor. 1625 % 1626 There is some milk of contention between us. 1627 % 1628 There was danger lurking under the tip of an iceberg. 1629 % 1630 There were foot-high puddles. 1631 % 1632 There will be fangs flying. 1633 % 1634 There's a dark cloud on every rainbow's horizon. 1635 % 1636 There's a flaw in the ointment. 1637 % 1638 There's a little life in the old shoe yet. 1639 % 1640 There's a lot of blanche here to carte. 1641 % 1642 There's a lot of bull in the china shop. 1643 % 1644 There's a lot of credibility in that gap! 1645 % 1646 There's a strong over current here. 1647 % 1648 There's a vortex swimming around out there. 1649 % 1650 There's going to be hell and high water to pay. 1651 % 1652 There's laughing on the outside, panelling on the inside. 1653 % 1654 There's more than one way to skin an egg without letting the goose 1655 out of the bag. 1656 % 1657 There's no place in the bowl for another spoon to stir the broth. 1658 % 1659 There's no two ways around it. 1660 % 1661 There's nothing like stealing the barn door after the horse is gone. 1662 % 1663 There's some noise afoot about the problem. 1664 % 1665 There's some trash to be separated from the chaff. 1666 % 1667 They are straining at nits. 1668 % 1669 They are unscrupulously honest. 1670 % 1671 They are very far and few between. 1672 % 1673 They closed the doors after the barn was stolen. 1674 % 1675 They descended on me like a hoar of locust. 1676 % 1677 They don't like to dictate themselves to the problem. 1678 % 1679 They don't see eye for eye with us. 1680 % 1681 They don't stand a tea bag's chance in hell. 1682 % 1683 They fell all over their faces. 1684 % 1685 They just want to chew the bull. 1686 % 1687 They just want to shoot the fat. 1688 % 1689 They locked the door after the house was stolen. 1690 % 1691 They make strange bedfellows together. 1692 % 1693 They rolled their eyebrows at me. 1694 % 1695 They run across the gamut. 1696 % 1697 They sucked all the cream off the crop. 1698 % 1699 They sure dipsied his doodle. 1700 % 1701 They unspaded some real down to earth data. 1702 % 1703 They went after him tooth and fang. 1704 % 1705 They wrecked havoc in the kitchen. 1706 % 1707 They'll carve that spectrum any way we desire it. 1708 % 1709 They're atrophying on the vine. 1710 % 1711 They're colder than blue blazes. 1712 % 1713 They're coming farther between. 1714 % 1715 They're dropping his course like flies. 1716 % 1717 They're dying off like fleas. 1718 % 1719 They're eating out of our laps. 1720 % 1721 They're germs in the rough. 1722 % 1723 They're grasping for needles. 1724 % 1725 They're spreading like wild flowers. 1726 % 1727 They're very far and few between. 1728 % 1729 They're working their bones off. 1730 % 1731 They's chomping their lips at the prospect. 1732 % 1733 They've beaten the bushes to death. 1734 % 1735 They've got the bull by the tail now. 1736 % 1737 They've reached a new level of lowness. 1738 % 1739 Things are all up in a heaval. 1740 % 1741 Things have slowed down to a terrible halt. 1742 % 1743 Things keep falling out of it, three or four years at a time. 1744 % 1745 This field of research is so virginal that no human eye has set foot on it. 1746 % 1747 This program has many weaknesses, but its strongest weakness remains to be seen. 1748 % 1749 This bit of casting oil on troubled feathers is more than I can take. 1750 % 1751 This ivory tower we're living in is a glass house. 1752 % 1753 This office requires a president who will work right up to the hilt. 1754 % 1755 This thing kills me to the bone. 1756 % 1757 This wine came from a really great brewery. 1758 % 1759 This work was the understatement of the year. 1760 % 1761 Those are good practices to avoid. 1762 % 1763 Those guys are as independent as hogs on ice. 1764 % 1765 Those guys weld a lot of power. 1766 % 1767 Those people have no bones to grind. 1768 % 1769 Those words were very carefully weaseled. 1770 % 1771 Time and tide strike but once. 1772 % 1773 To be a leader, you have to develop a spear de corps. 1774 % 1775 To coin a cliche, let's have at them. 1776 % 1777 To sweeten the pie, I'll add some cash. 1778 % 1779 To the cook goes the broth! 1780 % 1781 Together again for the first time. 1782 % 1783 Too many chiefs spoil the soup. 1784 % 1785 Too many drinks spoil the broth. 1786 % 1787 Too many hands spoil the soap. 1788 % 1789 Trying to do anything is like a tour de force. 1790 % 1791 Trying to get a doctor on Wednesday is like trying to shoot a horse on Sunday. 1792 % 1793 Watch her, she gets on the stick very quickly. 1794 % 1795 We are on equally unfooted ground. 1796 % 1797 We are paying for the sins of serenity. 1798 % 1799 We brought this can of worms into the open. 1800 % 1801 We can clean ourselves right up to date. 1802 % 1803 We can throw a lot of muscle into the pot. 1804 % 1805 We can't get through the forest for the trees. 1806 % 1807 We didn't know which facts were incorrect. 1808 % 1809 We don't want to get enhangled in that either. 1810 % 1811 We got another thing out of it that I want to heave in. 1812 % 1813 We got on board at ground zero. 1814 % 1815 We got the story post hoc. 1816 % 1817 We have a difference of agreement. 1818 % 1819 We have a real ball of wax to unravel. 1820 % 1821 We have a real messy ball of wax. 1822 % 1823 We have a wide range of broad-gauge people. 1824 % 1825 We have achieved a wide specter of support. 1826 % 1827 We threw everything in the kitchen sink at them. 1828 % 1829 We're getting down to bare tacks. 1830 % 1831 What can we do to shore up these problems? 1832 % 1833 When the tough get going they let sleeping dogs lie. 1834 % 1835 When they go downstairs, you can hear neither hide nor hair of them. 1836 % 1837 When you're jumping on sacred cows, you've got to watch your step. 1838 % 1839 You can make a prima donna sing, but you can't make her dance. 1840 % 1841 You get more for your mileage that way. 1842 % 1843 You gotta strike while the shoe is hot or the iron may be on the other foot. 1844 % 1845 You have sowed a festering cowpie of suspicion. 1846 % 1847 You put all your eggs before the horse. 1848 % 1849 You really can't compare us -- our similarities are different. 1850 % 1851 Your wild oats have come home to roost. 1852 % 1853 You're blowing it all out of context. 1854 % 1855 You've always been the bone of human kindness. 1856