I love words.
I said this before in the other three posts of idioms and sayings. I found a list on the internet and they are called idioms. Most of them I would call sayings. Sayings that make our language more colorful and more confusing to someone learning it. I love the twists and turns that words can make. I added to that list of things that I know and use.
Add insult to injury
All the tea/rice in China
At the eleventh hour
Avoid like the plague
Back to the drawing board
The ball is in your court
Barking up the wrong tree
Beat around the bush
Bell the cat
The best thing since sliced bread
Beside yourself with joy
Best of both worlds
Black sheep of the family
A blessing in disguise
Blow hot and cold
Between an rock and a hard place
Bite the bullet
Blind as a bat
Blow off steam
Your back against the wall
All in the same boat
The ball is in your court
Bit off more than you can chew
Bob's your uncle*
A bolt from the blue
Born with a silver spoon in your mouth
Break a leg
Break new ground*
Brought everything but the kitchen sink
Burn your bridges/boats
By the skin of your teeth
Call a spade a spade
Call it a day
A cold day in July*
Come rain or shine
Couch potato*
Cross that bridge when you come to it
Cost a bomb*
Cry for the moon*
Crying wolf
Cut corners
Cut to the chase
Cut some slack
Don't cry over spilled milk
Don't give up your day job
Don't judge a book by it's cover
Don't run before you can walk
Down for the count
Draw first blood*
Eat like a horse
Egg on your face
The elephant in the room
Face the music
Fair and square
Not the only fish in the sea
For land's sake
For goodness sake
In full swing
Full as a tick
Full of beans
Get out of my hair
Get your act together
Get your wires crossed
Give it a whirl
Go cold turkey
Go down in flames
Wild goose chase
Green thumb
Your guess is as good as mine
Hold a grudge
Have a beef about
Have bigger fish to fry
Heard it on the grapevine
My heart is in my mouth
Hit the books
Hit the nail on the head
Hit the road
Hit the sack
Hold your horses
Ignorance is bliss
The last straw
Johnny on the spot
Jump on the bandwagon
Jump ship
Keep an ear to the ground
Leave no stone unturned
Left in the dark
Like a fish out of water
Looking to your laurels*
Look before you leap
Lose your marbles
Make a hash of
Miss the boat
My old stomping grounds
Not my cup of tea
Once in a blue moon
On cloud nine
A one trick pony
Over my dead body
A penny for your thoughts
Play devil's advocate
Play it by ear
Play your cards right
Pot calls the kettle black
Pull someone's leg
Raining cats and dogs
Rain on my parade
Right as rain
That rings a bell
Run around in circles
A sandwich short of a picnic
Sat on the fence
Scrape the bottom of the barrel
See eye to eye
Sell like hotcakes
Shed light on
Shoot from the hip
Sit tight
Sleep on it
Something the cat drug in
A stone's throw away
Smell a rat
Snowball effect
Snug as a bug in a rug
So far, so good
Spanner in the works (UK)*
Spill the beans
Speak of the devil
Steal someone's thunder
Step up your game
Straight from the horses mouth
Swan song
Taste of your own medicine
Like two peas in a pod
Take a back seat
Take it with a pinch of salt
Tickled pink
Third times a charm
Throw caution to the winds
It takes two to tango
Through thick and thin
Two shakes of a dead lambs tail (or maybe a live one)
Under the weather
Up in arms
When pigs fly
The whole nine yards
The whole shebang
Wouldn't be caught dead
You can say that again
*these are not part of me
If there are double between my posts...too bad.
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