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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush
A bolt out of the blue
A chain is as strong as its weakest link
A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man dies but once
A day late and a dollar short
A dead ringer
A diamond in the rough
A diamond is forever
A dish fit for the gods
A drop in the bucket
A face only a mother could love
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living
A fate worst than death
A fish out of water
A fool and his money are soon parted
A friend in need is a friend indeed
A friend to all is a friend to none
A good man is hard to find
A good run is better than a bad stand
A heart as big as Texas
A job worth doing is worth doing well
A labor of love
A legend in his own time
A little bird told me
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
A man after my own heart
A man is as good as his word
A man is known by the company he keeps
A man of few words
A man passes for what he is worth
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
A man's got to do what a man's got to do
A man's home is his castle
A man's word is as good as his bond
A new broom sweeps clean
A penny for your thoughts
A penny saved is a penny earned
A picture is worth a thousand words
A place for everything and everything in its place
A play on words
A poor excuse is better than none at all
A poor man's memories could be a rich mans Goal
A right start in life is a career half made
A rolling stone gathers no moss
A she devil
A stitch in time saves nine
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
A time for all seasons
A time to live and a time to die
A tree is know best by it's fruit
A watched pot never boils
A wise man listens to his own conscience
A word to the wise is sufficient
A-1
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Ace in the hole
Ace up his sleeve
Achilles Heel
Acid test
Across the board
Act in haste, repent in leisure
Actions speak louder than words
Adam's apple
Add insult to injury
After all is said and done, usually more is said than done
After the feast comes the reckoning
Against the grain
Age before beauty
Ain't just waltzing around with you
Ain't no fool like an old fool
Albatross around the neck
Alive and kicking
All good things come to those who wait
All is fair in love and war
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
All roads lead to Rome
All that glitters is not gold
All things being equal
All Thumbs
All wet
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All's over but the shouting
All's well that ends well
Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest
Always look on the bright side
Always neat and tidy
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
An empty can makes the most noise
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Another day, another dollar
Any port in a storm
Appearances are deceiving
Apples don't fall far from the tree
April showers bring May flowers
Are you listening - get your head out of the clouds
As a twig is bent the tree will grow
As big headed as a mule
As bitter as a gale
As black as your hat
As blind as a bat
As brave as a lion
As bright as a sixpence
As brown as a berry
As clean as a penny
As clear as a bell
As clear as the nose on your face
As clumsy as a bull in a china closet
As cross as a bear
As dark as a pail
As dead as a door nail
As deep as a well
As dry as a herrin
As dumb as a mule looking for a new gate
As empty as air
As fair as a lily
As fast as the Mexican two-step
As fat as a porpoise
As fine as a fiddle
As flat as a pancake
As happy as a dead pig in the sunshine
As hard as a millstone
As hard as a rock
As high as a kite
As high as the sky
As honest as the day as long
As light as a feather
As long as a country mile
As long as the day is long
As luck would have it
As mad as a March hare
As many as Carter had little liver pills
As neat as a pin
As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
As pig headed as a mule
As plump as a partridge
As poor as a church mouse
As proud as a peacock
As pure as a angel
As pure as mothers milk
As pure as the driven snow
As red as a beet
As rich as was Croesus
As right as rain
As rough as a gale
As round as an apple
As sharp as a stick
As slow as a snail
As sly as a fox
As smart as a steel trap
As spry as a cat
As stiff as a poker
As strong as an ox
As tender as a mother milk
As tender as a mother's love
As the crow flies
As thin as a rail
As tough as nails
As ugly as sin
As weak as a kitten
Ashes of love are cold as ice
Ask and you shall receive
Ask me no question and I will tell you no lies
Asleep at the wheel
At first blush
At your beck and call
Babe in the woods
Back in the good old days
Back seat driver
Back to basics
Back to square one
Back to the drawing board
Back to the salt mine
Back when Hector was a pup
Back when I was younger
Backhanded compliment
Bad penny always returns
Bad spelling is a remediable injury
Bad to the bone
Bad to worse
Bad weather gets better, a bad man never does
Bag of switches
Bald as an eagle
Ball and chain
Barefaced liar
Barking dogs seldom bite
Barking in the wind
Barking up the wrong tree
Batten down the hatches
Be careful what you wish for you might get it
Be that as it may
Be true to your teeth and they won't be false
Beat around the bush
Beat the band
Beauty is as beauty does
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Beauty is only skin deep
Bee in your bonnet
Behind every cloud is a silver lining
Behind the eight ball
Being so happy or food being so good, you could slap your grandma
Bend like a willow or break like an oak
Beside the point
Best fish I ever flopped a lip on
Best laid plans of mice and men
Best looking girl I ever took a gander at
Better a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
Better death than dishonor
Better half
Better late than never
Better safe than sorry
Better than a black land farm
Better than a new pencil
Better than bacon
Better to be your friend's nettle than his echo
Between a rock and a hard place
Betwixt and between
Beware of burning your bridges when you cross them
Beyond the sunset
Bide your time
Big as a bear
Big as a blimp
Big as a goose egg
Big eye little view
Bigger is better
Bigger than a blue dog tick
Bigger than Dallas
Bird in the hand is better than two in the bush
Bird's eye view
Birds of a feather flock together
Black as pitch
Black as the ace of spades
Black sheep of the family
Bless your little pea picking heart
Blind as a bat
Blind in one eye and can't see out of the other
Blood is thicker than water
Blood will tell
Blow your stack
Blown to smithereens
Bone of contention
Bony Moroney
Born with a silver spoon is his mouth
Bosom buddy
Bottoms up
Bow up like a cutting worm
Boy was that a new wrinkle
Break a leg
Break a mirror and you will have seven years bad luck
Break the ice
Bright as a new silver dollar
Bright eyed and bushy tailed
Bring home the bacon
Brown as a berry
Brown noser
Brownie points
Bump on a log
Burning question
Burning the candle at both ends
Burning the midnight oil
Bury the hatchet
Busier than a one armed paper hanger
Business before pleasure
Busting my chops
Busy as a bee
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
Buy it for a song
By the same token
By the skin of your teeth
By the sweat of your brow
Calf rope
Call a spade a spade
Calm before the storm
Came up smelling like roses
Can it
Can't live with them and can't live without them
Can't make heads or tails of it
Can't never could and never would
Can't see the forest for the trees
Can't see through muddy water
Can't win for losing
Captain of his soul
Cardinal sin
Carte blanche
Cash on the barrel head
Cast aspersions
Cast pearls before swine
Cat got your tongue
Catch as catch can
Catch some Z's
Cat's meow
Cattywampus or caddywampus
Caught between a rock and a hard place
Caught with your pants down
Champagne taste with a beer pocketbook
Change a fool against his will, he's of the same opinion still
Change of heart
Character secures respect
Charity begins at home
Charlie horse
Charmed life
Cheap as dirt
Chew the cud
Chew the fat
Chicken squat behind the was pot
Chickens come home to roost
Children should be seen and not heard
Child's play
Chink in the armor
Chip off the old block
Chip on his shoulder
Chock full
Choose the lessor of two evils
Christmas Eve Gift
Clean as a whistle
Clean slate
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Clear as a bell
Clear as day
Clear as mud
Clear the decks
Clearer than glass
Climb on the bandstand
Climb the wall
Clip joint
Close but no cigar
Close isn't good enough
Close only counts in horseshoes
Close shave
Close that pneumonia hole/ gap
Closer than the hair on a hog
Clothes don't make the man
Clothes make the man
Cloud nine
Clumsy as a bull in a china closet
Clumsy as a new born colt
Coast is clear
Cock and bull story
Cock of the walk
Cockles of the heart
Coin a phrase
Cold as a blue northern
Cold as a frog
Cold as a witches broom
Cold as ice
Cold day in July
Cold feet
Cold feet sleep apart
Cold fish
Cold hands - warm heart
Cold shoulder
Cold turkey
Come hell or high water
Come off it
Come what may
Comes up smelling like a rose
Company and fish stink after three days
Conniption fit
Conspicuous by one's absence
Cooked his goose
Cool as a cucumber
Cop a plea
Corny as a cup of corn
Couldn't buy a setting of eggs
Couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket
Couldn't hit the broad side of the barn
Count your blessings, not your problems
Courage of your convictions
Cracked up
Crazy as a Bessie bug
Cream rises to the top
Cries like a baby
Crime doesn't pay
Crooked as a barrel of snakes
Crooked as a dogs hind leg
Crooked as a snake
Cross as a bear
Cross your bridges when you come to them
Cross your fingers for good luck
Cry wolf
Cultivate the talents you have
Curiosity killed the cat
Cut and dried
Cut and run
Cut me some slack
Cut the coat according to the cloth
Cut the mustard
Cut the shenanigans
Cut through the red tape
Cut to the chase
Cut your nose off to spite your face
Dance with the one that brought you
Day late and a dollar short
Dead as a doornail
Dead men tells no tales
Dead ringer
Dead to right
Dead to the world
Deader than a doorknob
Deader than a mackerel
Deeper than the deep blue sea
Deeper than the Pacific
Den of thieves
Dependable as a mule
Dependable as a spring flood
Devil incarnate
Diamond in the rough
Different color of horse
Different strokes for different folks
Dig your own grave
Dipstick
Dirt cheap
Discretion is the better part of valor
Divide and conquer
D-liver, D-letter, D-sooner, D-better
Do an about face
Do as I say do and not as I do
Do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself
Do or die
Do unto others shat you would have them do unto you
Doctor Livingston I presume
Does a leopard change his spots
Doesn't have a leg to stand on
Doesn't have two nickels to rub together
Dog days of summer
Dogs that don't kill sheep don't run
Done in by a city slicker
Don't aim at talent you don't have
Don't beat a dead dog
Don't beat around the bush
Don't bite off more that you can chew
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't burn your bridges
Don't change horses in the middle of the stream
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
Don't criticize a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes
Don't cry over spilled milk
Don't cry your heart out
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Don't mess in your nest
Don't muddy the waters
Don't open Pandora's box
Don't open that can of worms
Don't play with fire and you won't get burned
Don't pull the wool over my eyes
Don't put all of your eggs in one basket
Don't put any stock in it
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today
Don't sweat the small stuff
Don't take any wooden nickels
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water
Don't upset the apple cart
Double bind and still a going
Double dog dare
Double Dutch
Double ugly
Double whammy
Drank till he was plum tipsy
Dressed fit to kill
Dressed up in his Sunday go to meeting clothes
Dressed up to the nines
Drinks like a fish
Drummed out of the Army
Drunk as a skunk
Dumb as a box of rocks
Dumb as a fox
Dumb as a log
Dumb as a post
Dumb as a stump
Dynamite comes in small packages
Early to bed early to rise makes a man wealthy and wise
Ears that look like a taxi cab with both doors open
Easier said than done
Easy as falling off a log
Easy as pie
Easy come easy go
Eat crow
Eat drink and be merry
Eat your heart out
Eaten out of house and home
Eats like a bird
Eats like a horse
Eats like a pig
Education is capital invested for the future
Either sink or swim
Elementary my dear Watson
End of one's rope
End of the story
Enough is enough
Enthusiasm conquers the impossible
Even at the turning tide
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven
Every dog has his day
Evil returns to evil doers
Excuse my French
Experience is the best teacher
Eyes like a hawk
Eyes see everything but themselves
Face the music
Fact is stranger than fiction
Failure is the stepping stone to success
Failure may be the stepping stone to success
Faint heart never won fair maiden
Fair and square
Fair to middling
Fair weather friend
Faith can move mountains
Fall from Grace
Fall on your sword
Falling apart like a cheap suit
Familiarity breeds contempt
Fancy free
Far be it from me
Faster than greased lightening
Fat as a hog
Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free
Feed that corn to the chickens
Feel it in my bones
Fell like a ton of bricks
Feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys
Few and for between
Fifth wheel
Find a penny, pick it up - all the day you'll have good luck
Finders keepers losers weepers
Finer than frog hair
Fire answers fire
First come, first served
Fish or cut bait
Fit as a fiddle
Fit to be tied
Fits him to a T
Flash in the pan
Flat as a fritter
Flat as a pancake
Flat footed as a duck
Flesh and blood
Fly by night
Fly by the seat of your pants
Fly in the ointment
Fly off the handle
Fly on the wall
Foam at the mouth
Follow the golden rule
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
Fools gold
Fool's names and fool's faces always show up in public places
Fools rush in where Angel's fear to tread
For crying out loud
For from the madding crowd
For love nor money
For the birds
For the life of me
For the umpteenth time
For what it is worth
Forbidden fruit
Forever and a day
Forewarned is forearmed
Forgive and forget
Forgive and you will be forgiven
Fork it over
Fought like a tiger
Four aces short of a deck
Four corners of the earth
Free as a bird
Fresh as a daisy
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ear
Frog in your throat
From bad to worst
From here to Kalamazoo
From here to ten buck two
From pillar to post
From stem to stern
From the horses mouth
From the word go
From your lips to God's ears
Full as a tick
Full of beans
Funny farm
Further than the outhouse
Fuzzy wuzzy
Gag a maggot
Gather rosebuds while you may
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Get off your high horse
Get use to it
Get while the getting's good
Get your ears lowered
Getting the short end of the stick
Getting your goat
Give him an inch and he will take a mile
Give him an offer he can't refuse
Give the devil his dues
Giving someone the cold shoulder
Go ahead gourd head
Go fly a kite
Go for broke
Go off half cocked
Go whole hog wild
Go with the flow
God helps those who help themselves
God moves in mysterious ways
Goes up like a puff of smoke
Going to be a cold day in hell
Going to come a frog floater
Going to come a gully washer
Going to come a toad strangler
Going to hell in a hand basket
Gone but not forgotten
Gone South
Gone to bed with the chickens
Gone to pot
Gone to the dogs
Good always wins over evil
Good as gold
Good beginnings make for good endings
Good fences make good neighbors
Good lord willing and the creeks don't rise
Good luck comes to the man that earns it
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Goodie two shoes
Goofy as a road lizard
Got a bird nest on the ground
Got a frog in your throat
Got enough money to burn a wet mule
Got more money than Ben Gump
Got my mojo working
Got the blues
Got the reds
Got up on the wrong side of the bed
Grass doesn't grow on a busy street
Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
Great minds think alike
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Greek to me
Green as a gourd
Green as grass
Green eyed monster
Green with envy
Grin and bare it
Grind to a halt
Grinning like a mule chewing briars
Growing like a weed
Guilty as sin
Gung ho
Gut reaction
Had me stumped
Hair of the dog
Half a loaf is better than none
Half the battle
Hand over fist
Handy as a flashlight with no batteries
Handy as pockets on a shirt
Hang in there
Hang loose
Hang tight
Happiness is a state of mind
Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine
Happy as a pig in slop
Hard as a rock
Hard fight with a short stick
Hard row to hoe
Hard to hold as a greased pig
Harder than nails
Harvest moon
Has a skeleton in the closet
Hasn't got the sense God gave a goose
Hasn't got the sense of a Betsy bug
Have a nice day
He ain't got a leg to stand on
He can't see the forest for the tees
He cast a large shadow
He couldn't see the point of a nail
He got his neck rung twice and he's still a-floppin
He got pulled before he was ripe
He has a ace in the hole
He has a hollow leg
He has a stomach made out of cast iron
He has deep pockets
He has his own ax to grind
He has his tail over his back
He has lost his marbles
He has run the gauntlet
He is a dark horse
He is a rake
He is a ring leader
He is a ring tailed tooter
He is a straight shooter
He is a wise old owl
He is afraid of his own shadow
He is as dependable as a fox in a hen house
He is as honest as the day is long
He is as stubborn as a lop-eared mule
He is dealing from the bottom of the deck
He is going to the dogs
He is Hell on wheels
He is hen pecked
He is over his head
He kicked the bucket
He looks like death warmed over
He needs a tight rein
He rules with an iron hand
He stumped his toe
He takes one steps forward and two steps back
He thinks it is gospel if he says it
He who can does, he who cannot doesn't
He who gets angry gets old fast
He who hesitates is lost
He who laughs first cries hardest at the last
He who will not work shall not eat
He will argue with a fence post
He would complain if he was hung with a new rope
He/she could go bear hunting with a switch
He/she has a charmed life
He/she has bats in the belfry
He/she has the world by the tail
He/she is a day late and a dollar short
He/she is a pack rat
He/she is feeling their oats
He/she is going to have to bear the brunt
He/she is tough as nails
He/she is wiser than an old owl
He/she who hesitates is lost
He/she would take the quarters off a corpse's eyes
He/she's just like an apple rotten to the core
Head as hard as a rock
Head is harder than a brick
Healthy as a horse
Hear hear
Hear no evil-see no evil-speak no evil
Heard that lip flop
Heart as big as all outdoors
Heart of a lion
Heavens to Betsy
Heavy as a tub of lard
He'll argue with a fence post
Hell hath no furry like a woman scorned
Hem and Haw
Here today gone tomorrow
He's an odd duck
He's got ants in his pants
He's got ants in his pockets
He's really bull headed
He's rough as a cob
He's slow, but he's old
Hibernate like a bear
Hide and seek
High and dry
High and mighty
High on the hog
Higher than a cats back
Higher than a Georgia pine
Higher than a kite
Hind site is 20/20
His beard is white as snow
His belly shakes like Jell-O
His head is as thick as an anvil
His mind is a steel trap
His/her elevator doesn't go all the way to the top
His/her light's on, but nobody's home
Hit below the belt
Hit by a ugly stick
Hit the sack
Ho-Ho-Ho- and a bottle of Rum
Hoist by your own petard
Hold a candle
Hold a torch
Hold your horses
Holy cow
Holy Smoke
Home is where the heart is
Home is where you hang your hat
Honest as the day is long
Honesty is the best policy
Hook line and sinker
Hook or crook
Hoot and Holler
Hope is a waking dream
Hope is hearing the melody of the future, Faith is to dance it
Hope is like the sun which as we walk toward it, cast a shadow of our burdens behind us
Horse and cart
Hotter than a firecracker, but never hotter than a pistol
Hotter than a pistol
Hotter than a pot of collards
Hotter than Hell
How low can you go
How now brown cow
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
Hung up, but not stress out
Hung, drawn and quartered
Hunters moon
I ain't never
I am a simple man with simple taste
I am as lonesome as a polecat
I am going to jerk a knot in your tail
I am going to paint the town red
I am going to slap you to the back side of no where
I am just needling you
I am off like a old dirty shirt
I came, I saw and I conquered
I can't make head or tails of it
I could take a cotton to you
I cried because I had no shoes until I saw the man who had no feet
I did not fall off a turnip truck
I didn't like the color of his money
I didn't pull your chain
I don't care if it harelips Georgia
I don't give a tinkers damn
I don't know him from Adam
I double dog dare you
I feel for you but I just can't reach you
I feel it in my bones
I feel like a rung out old rag thrown out with the wash water
I feel like giving up the ghost
I feel like warmed over death
I had rather see them shake than rattle
I have not slept one wink
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat
I have other fish to fry
I laughed till I cried
I may be tall but I sure am short
I might as well I can't dance
I need that like a hole in the head
I shall return
I spy with my little eyes
I wasn't born on a Christmas tree
I wasn't born yesterday
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
I won it fair and square
I won't take no for an answer
I would rather see them shake than rattle
I would rather take a beating
I wouldn't give you a plug nickel
I wouldn't give you two bits for his opinion
I wouldn't touch that with a 10' pole
I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him
I wouldn't want to be in his shoes
Idle hands are the Devil's workshop
Idle mind is the Devil's playground
If a black cat crosses your path you will have bad luck
If a man tells you he can grow corn look in his crib
If a wolf came to my house to eat he would have to bring a sack lunch
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again
If brains were lard, they couldn't grease up a good size skillet
If he accidentally told you the truth, he would come back and apologize
If I (he/she) had a brain, I (he/she) would be dangerous
If I had my druthers
If I had told you once I have told you a thousand times
If I was on my way to hell with a car load of ice it would come a freeze
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade
If music was food of love, play on
If she had one more freckle she would have to carry it in the palm of her hand
If she would screw her head back on straight she might not have to walk sideways
If syrup was a nickel a sop I wouldn't have a biscuit
If that don't beat the band
If that kid don't leave home I'm going to break his plate
If the Lord's willing, and the creek don't rise
If the shoe fits, wear it
If wishes were fishes, we'd all have a fry
If wishes were for certain we would all be rich
If wishes were horses beggars would ride
If worse comes to worst
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem
If you can't beat them join them
If you can't say anything nice don't say anything
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
If you cast your net too wide beware that you don't get snared in your own webbing
If you don't bend you are going to break
If you don't milk everyday, the cow will dry up
If you have seen one you have seen them all
If you play with trash it will get in your eyes
If you think you are talking to a backward person you might consider facing them
If you want to dance you must pay the fiddler
Ignorance is bliss
I'll be a monkey's uncle
Ill gotten gains
I'll meet you last winter
I'm a bit under the weather today
I'm all ears
I'm getting nowhere fast
I'm going to carry you to the back of the wood shed
I'm going to clean your plow
I'm going to knock you into the middle of the week
I'm going to nail him
I'm in a nine line bind
I'm not just blowing smoke at you
In a coon's age
In a nutshell
In a pigs eye
In a quandary
In a rut
In an interesting condition
In cold blood
In for a penny
In for a pound
In hot water
In my mind's eye
In one ear and out the other
In one fell swoop
In the Autumn of your life
In the bag
In the buff
In the cart
In the doghouse
In the limelight
In the offing
In the pink
In the red
In the twinkling of an eye
In trouble
In your dreams
In your face
Indian giver
Is the Pope Catholic
Is you fall to the ground you get lost in the flood
It ain't fit for man or beast
It ain't over till the fat lady sings
It goes against the grain
It goes in one ear and out the other
It is a dirty job but someone has to do it
It is a dog eat dog world
It is as clear as the handwriting on the wall
It is as easy as falling off a log
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
It is dark as a tomb
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of an needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye
It is pea pickin' good
It is two hole seater
It never rains it pours
It rolls off like water off of a duck's back
It takes one to know one
It takes people like you to make people like me
It takes two to tango
It will jar your memory like standing at South end of a North bound mule
It'll all come out in the wash
It'll be a cold day in July
It'll be okay if the Lord's willing and the creek don't rise
It's a catch 22 situation
It's a far cry
It's a long worm that never turns
It's a piece of cake
It's a real hum dinger
It's a sorry dog that won't wag his own tail
It's a two-dog night
It's all in the eye of the beholder
Its always darkest before dawn
It's an ill wind that blows no good
It's better to be safe than sorry
It's cold as blue blazes
It's going to rain little children
It's is raining on my parade
It's later than it has ever been before
It's like opening a can of worms
It's not over till the fat lady sings
It's not the end of the world
It's not whether you win or loose, it's how you play the game
It's not worth the paper it's written on
It's raining cats and dogs
It's raining on my parade
It's snowing down South
It's the pits
It's too little, too late
It's your pipe full
Jack of all trades and a master of none
Jackpot
Jerkwater town
Jig is up
Johnny come lately
Johnny come lately
Jump out of the frying pan into the fire
Jump to conclusions
Jumping the gun
Jumpy as a cat on a hot tin roof
Junk
Jury rig
Just a hop, skip and a jump away
Just a stone throw away
Just barking in the wind
Just bear with me
Just between you and me and the post
Just bide your time
Just deserts
Just had a brain storm
Just hunkey dory
Just in time
Katy bar the door
Keep a stiff upper lip
Keep body and soul together
Keep it simple stupid
Keep out of my hair
Keep the ball rolling
Keep those card and letters coming
Keep two hands above high water
Keep your eyes peeled
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards
Keep your fingers crossed
Keep your head above water
Keep your nose clean
Keep your nose to the grind stone
Keep your powder dry
Keep your shirt on
Keeping up with the Joneses
Keeps me on pins and needles
Kelly is under that hat because his legs are hanging out
Kick a man when he is down
Kick the bucket
Kicking up his heels like a cow going to pasture
Kill the goose that laid the golden egg
Kill them with kindness
Kill two birds with one stone
Kilroy was here
Kiss and tell
Kiss my grits
Kit and caboodle
Knee high by the fourth of July
Knee high to a grasshopper
Knee jerk reaction
Knee knocking scared
Knock back
Knock off work
Knock on wood
Know the ropes
Know which side your bread is buttered on
Know which way the wind blows
Knuckle down
Labor of love
Lamb to the slaughter
Land of hope and glory
Land of milk and honey
Last but not least
Last ditch effort
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone
Lead by example
Learn the ropes
Learning is wealth to the poor
Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
Left holding the bag
Left in a lurch
Legs so bowed he couldn't herd a hog in a narrow lane
Lend a kindly light
Lend me your ear
Less is more
Lesser of two evils
Let bygones be bygones
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Let one thousand flowers bloom
Let sleeping dogs lie
Let the cat out of the bag
Let them eat cake
Let there be light
Let your hair down
Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works
Level playing field
Liar, Liar pants on fire
Life is a stairway some are going up and others are going down
Life is not a dress rehearsal
Life is what you make it
Life of Riley
Light at the end of the tunnel
Like a bat out of hell
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Like a duck on a June bug
Like a man grasping for straws
Like a moth to a flame
Like a snowball on its way hell
Like being at a cake walk with no money
Like being in a candy store with no money
Like breaking a new pair of boots
Like grabbing hold of a dead fish
Like it or lump it
Like stink on a skunk
Like the pot calling the kettle black
Like two peas in a pod
Like walking a board sidewalk in high heels
Like water off a ducks back
Like white on rice
Limber as a peach tree switch
Little Miss Priss
Little pictures have big ears
Live and learn
Live by the sword die by the sword
Live fast and die hard
Loaded to the gills
Lonesome as a polecat
Long as a country mile
Long as a well rope
Long as the river
Long in the tooth
Longer than a row of cotton
Look before you leap
Look what the dogs have dragged in and cats won't eat
Looks good enough to eat
Loony as a goon
Loose as a goose
Loose lips sink ships
Lord love a duck
Lord willing and the creeks don't rise
Lots faster than a race horse
Love is the master key which open the gates of happiness
Love your neighbor as thyself
Lower than a snake's belly
Lower than a worm
Luck of the draw
Lucky as a rabbits foot
Lying is like being pregnant, sooner or later everyone will know
Lying like a dog
Mad as a hatter
Mad as an old wet hen
Main chance
Maintain the status quo
Make a beeline for it
Make a clean breast of it
Make a long story short
Make a mountain out of a molehill
Make haste not waste
Make hay while the sun shines
Make it a bakers dozen and I'll take it
Make no bones about it
Make ones blood boil
Make the fur fly
Makes me mad enough to chew nails and spit out BBs
Makes your hair stand straight on end
Man after his own heart
Man does not live by bread alone
Man of few words
Man's inhumanity to man
Many a slip from the cup to the lip
Many are called but few are chosen
Many hands make light work
Mark my words
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations
May as well, I can't dance
Mean as a junkyard dog
Meaner than a piney woods rooter
Meaner than a rattlesnake
Meet your maker
Meet your waterloo
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Mess with fire and you will get burned
Mickey Finn
Middle of the road
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Milk of human kindness
Mind over matter
Mind your own beeswax
Mind your Ps and Qs
Mischievous as a cat
Misery loves company
Money burns a hole in your pocket
Money can't by happiness
Money doesn't grow on trees
Money follows money
Money is the root of all evil
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey's uncle
More or less
More problems than Carter has little liver pills
More stubborn than a mule
More than I bargained for
More trouble than it's worth
Morning - Glory
Moving at a snail's pace
Moving like dead lice are falling off of you
Much ado about nothing
Muddier that a pig sty
Mum's the word
Must have a hole in the head
My crow is the blackest
Name your poison
Neat as a pin
Needle in a haystack
Needless to say
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Neither here nor there
Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Never a borrower or a lender be
Never bite the hand that feeds you
Never give a sucker a break
Never mix business with pleasure
Never say die
Never say never
Never the twains shall meet
Never to old to learn
New beginnings - old endings
Nice as pie
Nip and tuck
Nip it in the bud
No common horse sense
No dice
No man can lounge into success
No man is an island
No matter how far you go, there you are
No monkey business
No need to reinvent the wheel
No news is good news
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
No one is so blind as those that don't want to see
No pain no gain
No rest for the wicked
No rhyme or reason
No skin off my nose
No use beating a dead horse
No use closing the barn door when the horse is already out
Noisy as a new saddle
Nose running off my face
Nose runs like a spring branch
Not a hair out of place
Not fit to hold a candle
Not overdrawn, just under deposited
Not right now my mind is tuned out
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
Nothing can need a lie
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Now honey that is to much sugar for a dime
Now is the winter of discontent
Now that's a knee slapper
Nutty as a fruitcake
Nutty as a peach orchard boar
Nutty as a squirrel
O ye, of little faith
Odd and ends
Odd man out
Of the first order
Off his rocker
Off the record
Off the wall
Off with his head
Oh how time fly's when you are having fun
Oh that way madness lies
Oh what tangle web we weave, when first we practice to deceive
Oh, your grandmother was most particular
Oil and water don't mix
Okay
Okey dokey
Old as Methuselah
Old habits die hard
Old hat
Old so n' so kicked the bucket
Old stamping ground
Older than dirt
Older than father time
Older than the creek
On a wing and a prayer
On him/her like white on rice
On the ball
On the QT's
On the rocks
On the shoulders of a giant
On the skids
On the spur of the moment
On tinderhooks
Once bitten twice shy
Once in a blue moon
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch
One brick short of a load
One bubble short of plum
One foot in the grave
One for the road
One man's meat is another man's poison
One man's trash is another man's treasure
One sandwich short of a picnic
Only the good die young
Open mouth, insert foot
Out behind the wood shed
Out like a light
Out of sight out of mind
Out of sorts
Out of the coals and into the fire
Out of the jaws of death
Out of the mouths of babes come all wise sayings
Out on a limb
Out with the old and in with the new
Over the hill
Over the top
Oysters are not good in months that have not and R in them
Pack it in
Paddle your own canoe
Pain in the neck
Paint the town red
Pale as a ghost
Paper tiger
Pat on the back
Patience of Jobe
Pearls of wisdom
Peeping Tom
Penny for your thoughts
Penny wise, dollar foolish
People are dying today that have never died before
People in hell want ice-water too
Perseverance moves mountains or tunnels them
Peter Out
Physician heal thyself
Pig headed as a mule
Pigs ear
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
Pin money
Pink Elephant
Pipe down
Pipe dream
Piping hot
Play by ear
Play it again Sam
Play the race card
Play with matches and you will get burned
Plum tuckered out
Poor as a church house mouse
Poor baby, cry me a hand full of tears
Poorer than dirt
Potty mouth
Practice makes perfect
Practice what you preach
Pretty as a calico cat
Pretty as a new wagon
Pretty as a peach
Pretty as a picture
Pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon
Pretty is as pretty does
Pride goeth before a fall
Principles are useless, unless embodied in action
Proof is in the pudding
Protective as a mother hen
Proud as a peacock
Pull the wool over your eyes
Pulled on like an old sock
Pure as mother's milk
Put any stock in it
Put up your dukes
Put your mouth where your money is
Quality of mercy is not strained
Quality time
Queer as a three-dollar bill
Quick as a banty rooster
Quick as a bumblebee
Quick as a wink
Quick as lighting
Quick on the draw
Quicker than a New York minute
Quicker than a rabbit
Quicker than a striped lizard on hot asphalt
Quicker than greased lightening
Quid pro quo
Quiet as a mouse
Quit your bellyaching
Rack and ruin
Rack my brain
Rack of bones
Rain on you
Raining cats and dogs
Raise his hackles
Raising cain
Ran like a scalded dog
Rank and file
Rat race
Read something into it
Read the riot act
Real McCoys
Red as a beet
Red as a rooster's comb
Red as a turkey's snout
Red letter day
Red skies at night, a sailor's delight - Red skies in the morning sailors warning
Red tape
Rest in peace
Rest on your laurels
Resting on a bed of hot coals
Revenge is best served cold
Revenge is sweet
Right as rain
Ring around the moon, storm coming soon
Ring down the curtain
Rise and shine
Roars like a lion
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Rode hard and put away wet
Rode hard and put out to pasture
Roger dogger
Roll with the punches
Rolled off his tongue and went across town
Rolling stone gathers no moss
Root hog or die
Rotten to the core
Rough as a cob
Rule of thumb
Rules are made to be broken
Run like a scalded dog
Run like a spotted ape
Run like the wind
Run of the mill
Running after a shadow is a wearisome race
Running around like a chicken with its head cut off
Running like the hound of Hades was on him
Ryme nor reason
Sadder but wiser
Safe rather than sorry
Salt of the earth
Save for a rainy day
Saved by the bell
Saving face or losing face
Say what you mean and mean what you say
Scarce as hen's teeth
Scared as a rabbit
Scared as a rabbit in a fox hole
Scared out of my wits
Scott free
Screaming like a banshee
Screaming your lungs out
Secure as a house of cards
Seeing is believing
Seek and you shall find
Seize the day
Seize the moment
Selling a pig in a poke
Serious as a heart attack
Sets ones teeth on edge
Sew a stitch on Sunday and when you get to Heaven you'll have to take the stitches out with your nose
Sew wild oats all week long - pray for a bad crop on Sunday
Shake a leg
Shake his hand and count your fingers
Share and share alike
Sharp as a razor
Sharp as a tack
Sharp as a tic
She can't help being ugly but she could have stayed home
She don't know any better
She is 2 ax handles wide
She is a clinging vine
She is a cutie pie
She is a diddy-wah-dossey
She is a ring tail tooter
She is gonna have a hissie fit
She is just a weeping willow
She looks like a unmade bed
She paints with a wide brush
She was so ugly they had to tie a pork chop around her neck to get the dog to play with her
She will talk to a wooden Indian
She'll do she just won't do right
She's my sunshine
She's not working with a full deck
Ship shape
Shut my jaws
Sick as a dog
Sight for sore eyes
Sign of the times
Sign your John Henry
Silence is golden
Silver tongue Devil
Sink or swim
Sit down and take the load off you feet
Sit down and talk a spell
Sit tight
Sitting duck
Six of one and Half a dozen of the other
Skill, not luck, leads to fortune
Skinny as a rail
Sleep like a log
Sleeps sound as a log
Sleepy as a bear
Slick as a bucket of snot
Slick as a cow pie on a flat rock
Slick as a mink
Slick as a whistle, or clean as a whistle
Slicker than a gut
Slicker than a sycamore sapling
Slicker than sin
Slippery as an eel
Sloth is the key of poverty
Slow as a broke clock
Slow as a snail
Slow as Christmas
Slow as dead lice
Slow as dripping syrup
Slower than Christmas
Slower than molasses in January
Sly as fox
Slyer than a fox in a chicken coop
Small as a mustard-seed
Smart as a tack
Smart as a whip
Smile and the world smiles with you
Smoke that in your pipe
Smooth as glass
Smooth as silk,
Snug as a bug in a rug
So broke that if it took a quarter to leave town, you couldn't cross the street
So country he still has cordwood on his breath
So sweet honey was dripping off of her tongue
So tight he squeaks
Soars like an eagle
Sober as a judge
Someone needs a spring tonic
Son of a gun
Sooner get blood out of a stone
Sooner get blood out of a turnip
Sour as a lemon gargle
Sow the wind reap the whirlwind
Sowing his wild oats
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Speak little -- hear much
Speak of the devil and he will appear
Spinning another long cord of yarns
Spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down
Spring cleaning
Squeaky as a rat
Squeal like a stuck pig
Squirt blossom
Steady as a rock
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
Step on a crack break your mama's back
Stick like glue
Stick like tar
Sticks out like a sore thumb
Stiff as a board
Still water runs deep
Stone cold
Straight as an arrow
Strike while the iron is hot
Strong as an ox
Stronger than a bear's breath
Stronger than an acre of garlic
Stubborn as a mule
Stuck in a rut
Study long study wrong
Success comes through a clear, strong purpose
Sure as night follows day
Sweet tooth
Sweeter than honey
Tacky tongued
Tail between your legs
Take a back seat
Take a chill pill
Take a hike
Take a load off your feet
Take a rain check
Take a shine to
Take him down a peg
Take the bit between your teeth
Take the bitter with the sweet
Take the bull by the horn
Take the wind out of your sails
Take with a pinch of salt
Taken back
Takes one to know one
Talk is cheap
Talking to the walls
Talks in circles
Tall as a tree
Taller than a tall pine
Tattle - tell, tattle - tell you're going to grow a big ol' tail
Tender as a mother's love
That boy is shy a few cards of a full deck
That is a hair brain idea
That is a horse of a different color
That is music to my ears
That is my cross to bear
That is par for the course
That is the day we part company
That is the last straw
That is the long and short of it
That is the way the cookie crumbles
That is water under the bridge
That just slipped off your tongue
That makes me want to puke
That makes me whopping mad
That meal was larrupin good
That old dog don't hunt
That probably stuck in his craw
That road leads to nowhere
That takes the cake
That's a bitter pill to swallow
That's a new wrinkle on my old horn
That's about as stupid as a screen door on a submarine
That's all folks
That's it in a nutshell
That's the best thing since sliced bread
That's your ball of wax
The back of beyond
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, They must be felt by the heart
The best things come in small packages
The best things in life are free
The bigger the better
The blind leading the blind
The boss isn't always right, but he's always the boss
The buck stops here
The building that needs props is sure to fall
The call of the wild
The cats meow
The chance of anything happening today is nare to nothing
The course of true love never runs smooth
The cupboard is as bare as old mother Hubbard's cupboard
The cure is worst than the disease
The devil is in the detail
The devil take the hindmost
The die is cast
The difference between men and boys are the size of their toys
The early bird catches the worm
The exception of which proves the rule
The face that launch a thousand ships
The fat is in the fire
The female of the species is more deadly than the male
The first hen to cackle is the one that laid the egg
The game is afoot
The game is up
The good die young
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
The hurrier I go the behinder I get
The kid can tear up an anvil with a rubber hammer
The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
The light was on, but nobody was home
The live-long day
The long and short of it
The more the merrier
The more things change the more they stay the same
The night is far gone, the day is at hand
The only sure thing is death and taxes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
The only way to have a friend is to be one
The ox is in the ditch
The palest ink is stronger than the strongest memory
The path of darkness may not reach the light
The path of light is easiest found by looking up
The pen is mightier than the sword
The perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and young enough not to care
The road is going to be a slick as a jar full of eels
The road is going to be as greasy as a greased pig in the sunshine
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
The secret of success is constancy of purpose
The sky is the limit
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
The straw that broke the camel's back
The snow is falling
The sun is going down
The truth shall set you free
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
The wolf is at the front door
The worm has turned
Their family tree don't branch
There ain't going to be any hanky panky going on around here
There is a hunters moon tonight
There is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
There is a silver lining in behind every cloud
There is always room upstairs
There is blood on the moon
There is more than one way to skin a cat
There is no failure for the good and the wise
There is no place like home
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved
There is something rotten in Denmark
There may be snow on the roof, but there is still fire in the furnace
There will be frost on the pumpkin tonight
They are double trouble
They are thick as thieves
They fought a good fight
They just go hog wild
They will fight tooth and nail
Thicker than a bull's hide
Thicker than fleas on a dogs back
Thicker than thieves
Things started on Friday are never finished
This place looks like a pig's sty
Those we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not
Those who laugh a lot live longer
Thought is the oil of the mind - worry is the acid that destroys it
Three sheets to the wind
Throw another log on the fire
Throw the key in the water bucket and keep on going
Tie the knot
Tight as a tick
Tight as bark on a tree
Tighter than old Dick's hatband
Till the chickens come home to roost
Till the cows come home
Time for the bullwhip
Time has run out
Time heals all wounds
Time in a bottle
Time is passing me by
Time is the enemy of men
Time is ticking
Time to bite the bullet
Time to hit the sack
Time to hit the saddle
Time to meet your maker
Time to put him out to pasture
Time to rest my dogs
Time to slap leather
Time to turn over a new leaf
Time's a wasting
Tit for tat
To everything there is a season
To hot to tango and to old to stroll
To live without loving is not really to live
To pooped to pop and to old to stroll
Too big for your britches
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Toot your own horn
Touched in the head
Tough as an old boot
Tough as old leather
Tough row to hoe
True blue
Truth is stranger than fiction
Turn a blind eye
Turn away the weary trader and your heart will turn to stone
Twenty [or Forty) miles of bad road
Twisted like a pretzel
Two are better than one - If one falls down, his friend can help him up
Two bits short of a dollar
Two heads are better than one
Two left feet
Two of a kind
Two plus two equals two - Two plus two should equal four
Two's company; three's a crowd
Ugly as a mud fence
Ugly as sin
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
Up a blind alley
Up the creek without a paddle
Upper crust
Use it or loose it
Use it up, make do or do without
Useless as a bucket with no bottom
Useless as a dry milk cow
Useless as a dry well
Useless as teats on a bore hog
Vanished into thin air
Variety is the spice of life
Vent your anger
Vicious Circle
Virtue is its own reward
Wait broke the bridge
Wait with bated breath
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Wake up and smell the coffee
Walk a mile in his shoes
Walk on eggs
Walk the plank
Walk the shadows is to leave the light
Walk the walk and talk the talk
Want what you have and you will have what you want
Warm as toast
Waste not, want not
Watch pot never boils
Watch the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves
Water over the dam
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink
We are all in the same boat
We are going to have a knee slapping good time
We are going to have a mess of fish
We are not amused
We have seen better days
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope
We will cross that bridge when we get there
Weak as water
Weak in the knees
Wear your heart on your sleeve
Welcome as the plaque
Welcome with open arms
Well healed
Well I swear
Well now if that don't beat all
Well slap me naked and hide my clothes
Well that sinks the duck
Were you born in a barn
Wet behind the ears
Wet blanket
Wet your whistle
Wetter than a drowned rat
Wetter than a wharf rat
What a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive
What blows in on a ill wind
What goes around comes around
What goes up must come down
What in the compound cat hair do you want me to do
What is the rigmarole about
What the cat dragged in and the kittens wouldn't have
What will be, will be
What you don't know can't hurt you
What's done is done
What's good for the goose is good for the gander
What's up doc
When all is said and done
When elephants fly
When God handed out brains you must have been out to lunch
When Hell freezes over
When it rains it pours
When pigs fly
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
When the cat is away the mice will play
When the cows come home
When the creek runs dry
When the fox preaches watch your geese
When the going gets tough the tough get going
When they were passing out brains, he was out plowing the south 40
When they were passing out brains, he/she hid behind the door
When they were passing out brains, he/she thought they said pains and didn't take any
When they were passing the brains out, he thought they said TRAINS
When you chase a shadow you run from the light
When you got it, flaunt it
When you lie down with dogs, you are going to get fleas
Where there is a will there is a way
Where there is life there is hope
Where there is much there is brass
Where there is no vision, the people perish'
Where there is smoke , there is fire
Whether you think you can or think you can't - You are right
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil
Whippersnapper
Whipping boy
Whistling children and cackling hen leave no room for gentlemen
Whistling woman and crowing hen never come to a good end
White as a sheet
White elephant
Who's hauling those logs
Why don't you just cry me a hand full of tears
Wide birth
Wider than a barn
Wider than the Mississippi
Wild goose chase
Willy Nilly
Win one for the Gipper
Win the battle and lose the war
Winners never quit and quitters never win
Wins hand down
Wise old owl
Wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first
With age comes wisdom
With bells on
With flying colors
Wolf in sheep's clothing
Work and thou shalt have
Worn to a frazzel
Worry wart
Worst than a cloudy mind
Worst than stink on a skunk
Wreak Havoc
Wrinkled like a prune
X- Marks the spot
X that out
X-mas
Yankee Dime
You ain't just whistlin dixie
You are a dead duck
You are a dirty double dealing no good low down skunk
You are a sour pickle
You are a thorn in my side
You are acting like a child
You are adding insult to injury
You are as good as the best and better than the rest
You are full of piss and vinegar
You are going to be pushing up daisies
You are going to bite off more than you can chew
You are going to get my dander up
You are going to have to eat crow
You are going to have to eat humble pie
You are in way over your head
You are only as good as your word
You are right it gets in your blood
You are what you eat
You are your brother's keeper
You aren't getting up until you say uncle
You can buy it for a song
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
You can lead a horse to pasture but you can't make him eat
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
You can stand up or waller in your own self pity
You can tell a tree by the fruit it bears
You can't get water out of a rock
You can't help anyone till you help yourself
You can't judge a book by its cover
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
You can't mend a broken heart with a silver thread
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
You can't trust him as far as you can throw him
You don't give me the right of time
You don't know diddly squat
You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing
You drive a hard bargain
You got that right
You have a real tear jerker there
You have to give before you can get
You have to sow before you can reap
You have won half the battle
You have your glad shoe and mad shoe
You just hit the nail on the head
You just spun your own web
You keep me in suspenders
You live in a fools paradise
You look as you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
You look like someone who just shot your dog
You reap what you sow
You silly goose
You wouldn't be happy is you were hung with a new rope
Young Whippersnapper
Your name is mud
You're dirtier than the Mississippi and twice as crooked
You're eyes are bigger than your stomach
You're not just a tooting
You're nothing but a snake in the grass
You're number is up and time to cash in the chips
You're still wet behind the ears
You're treading deep water
Youth looks ahead, old age looks back and middle age looks tired
You've got till sundown
You've never had it so good
Zero tolerance
Ziggerigger
Zip your mouth shut
Zip your zipper