A beggar with a Havana

A barefaced liar
A beggar with Havana
A big noise
A bigwig
A bird in the hand is worth two in

the bush
A blind alley
A blockhead
A bon vivant
A born businessman
A born loser
A bread-and-butter job
A burnt child dreads the fire
A cat has nine lives
A cheerful look makes a dish a

feast
A chip of the old block
A city slicker
A clairvoyant
A clever devil
A cock crows on his dunghill
A con man
A connoisseur
A country pumpkin
A coxcomb
A crow is never the whiter for

washing itself often

A cuckoo
A dead loss
A decent sort
A drowning man will clutch at a

straw
A drug in the market
A failure for all the world to see
A feckless fellow
A fine kettle of fish
A fitting name
A fox is not taken twice in the

same snare
A friend in need is a friend indeed
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A good catch
A good workman doesn't quarrel

with his tools

A green horn
The hair of the dog (that bits me)
A happy camper
A happy-go-lucky
A hell of a job
A hungry man is an angry man
A hungry stomach has no ears
A jack-of-all-trades is a master of

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none
A jewel among women
A jinx on the house
A jolly soul
A la mode
A leopard cannot change its spots
A liar cannot escape detection;

truth will out

A little bird told me so
A living dog is better than a dead

lion
A living soul
A lover dreams of his mistress
A man can do no more than he can
A man has first claim to his own
property
A man is known by the company

/
/

he keeps
A man of whims
A man with a saintly air about him
A matter of life
A measly (two pounds)
A medallion man
A Mrs. Grundy
A necessary devil
A new broom sweeps clean
A nice fellow
A night-owl
A penny for them ( for your
thoughts)
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A person can tell when another

likes him
A pig-headed jerk
A pint-sized man
A posy from the beloved is a ruby
A prize customer
No one is a prophet in his country
A real bargain
A real character
A real oaf
A renaissance man
A rotten trick
A rum start
A safe pair of hands
A saving grace
A scheming creep
A second to none
A short cut
A shoulder to cry on
A sight for sore eyes
A skirt-chaser
A smoking gun
A snake in the grass
A soft answer turns away wrath
A sound mind in a sound body
A stick-in-the-mud
A stolid person
A stopgap
A storm in a teacup
A sucker
A toy whistle
A tree is known by its fruits
A very chic atmosphere
A wet-blanket
A whipping boy
A white elephant
A white lie
A word in your ear
A working nobody is better than
idle nobility
A yes-man
Above board
Absence makes the heart grow

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fonder
Act one's age
Act the goat
Act the stupid
Adam's apple
Add fuel to the flames
Adversity tries friends
After clouds sunshine
After dinner sit a while, after

supper walk a mile

Against his will
Airs and graces
Aleatory
All abroad
All and sundry
All anyhow
All at sea
All his geese are swans
All in all
All in good time
All lay the load on the willing

horse
All's well that ends well
All one needs
All roads lead to Rome
All sweetness and light
All that glitters is not gold
All the better
All up
All work and no play
Always picking on someone
An arm and a leg
An excuse for keeping one's foot in
the door
An eye for an eye and a tooth for
An honest Joe
An insoluble problem
An old feud
An upstart
And how
And that was the end of the line
And the best is British
And the hell broke loose

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Answer the call of nature

Any man's money
Aren't you a beauty!
Are we going to beat about the

bush?
Around the clock
As bold as brass
As cheep as dirt
As cool as a cucumber
As crazy as an eggplant
As dark as pitch
As deep as a well
As different as chalk and cheese
As Gospel
As green as a gooseberry
As I live and breathe
As like as two peas
As old as Methuselah
As plain as the nose on your face
As quick as a flash
As red as lobster
As regular as clockwork
As scarce as hen's teeth
As slippery as an eel
As swarming and insistent as

beggars
As the crow flies
As you make your bed, so you

must lie on it. As you have made

your bed, now you must lie in it.

(you must accept the unpleasant

results of something you have
done)
As you sow, so shall you reap
As you were
At a loose end
At one / a sitting
At a stroke
At daggers drawn
At least
At loggerheads with someone

At rock bottom
At sixes and sevens; rack one's

brain
At someone's heels
At someone's beck and call
At swords drawn; at sword's

points
At the drop of a hat
At the end of the tether
At the ends of the earth
At someone's mercy
Back and forth
Back to front
Bag and baggage
Be a good chap
Be at a total write-off
Be able to breathe again
Be afraid of his own shadow
Be all mouth and trousers
Be anybody's guess (Allah only

knows)
Be as clear as a crystal
Be as easy as abc
Be as light as a feather
Be at cross-purposes
Be climbing the walls
Be cut off in one's prime
Be cut off without a penny
Be as different as chalk and cheese
Be dresses up to the nines
Be good at thrust and parry
Be green with envy
Be half-dead
Be hoist by one's own petard
Be like Fort Knox
Be my guest
Be put on the spot
Be quick on the draw
Be the spitting image of someone
Beat someone into submission
Beauty is in the eye of its beholder
Beauty is only skin deep
Become cross
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Bedlam
Beggars cannot be choosers
Beginner's luck
Act in a shameless fashion
Behind my back
Behind the times
Bell the cat
Bend over backwards
Better bad now than worse later
Better go round than fall into the
ditch
Better be meals many than one too
merry
Better be safe than sorry
Better be sure than sorry
Better make do with what you

have
Between a rock and a hard place;
the pot calling the kettle black
Between the devil and the deep

blue sea
Betwixt and between
Beyond one's wild dreams
Beyond recall
Big deal
Big deal
Birds of a feather flock together
Bit by bit
Bite the hand that feeds one
Bits and pieces
Black and white
Black is beauty!
Bless the mark!
Blood is thicker than water
Bloody hell!
Bluntly
Born to suffer
Born with a golden spoon in his

.....

mouth
Bottoms up!
Boys will be boys

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Brand new
Break the ice
Bring shame to someone
Bring the house down
Bogle
Build castles in the air
Bully for you!
Bundle someone off
But me no buts
But that is another story
Button it!
Buy a pig in a poke
By hook or by crook
By his admission
By stealthy degrees
Bu the scuff of the neck
By the sweat of his brow
Call a spade a spade
Call someone's bluff
Can a duck swim?
Can count something on one's

fingers
Cannot hurt a fly
Cannot pin someone down
Cannot punch one's way out of a

paper bag
Cannot see beyond
Cannot tell chalk from cheese
Carry coals to Newcastle
Carry the can for someone
Carrying the cares of the world on
one's shoulders
Carte blanche
Catch someone napping
Catch the evil eye
Change one's tune
Chapter and verse
Charity begins at home
Chew the fat
Chill someone's blood
Chin up!
Cleanliness is next to godliness
Clear the air

Clip someone's wings

Coin it in
Collect oneself
Come again?
Come and have a laugh at my

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expense!
Come back ( or rise) from the dead
Come close to home
Come hell or high water
Come rain or shine
Come to your sense
Come what may
Come, come!
Commit oneself unwittingly
Content is all
Could not say "boo"
Count your blessings!
Cowed
Crank
Create an aura for himself
Crime does not pay
Cross my palm / hand with silver!
Cut and run
Cut your garment according to
your cloth
Cut roads in someone's face
Cut someone down to size
Cut the crap!
Cutting corners
Daft
Darken someone's doors
Daylight robbery
Dead and gone
Dead men tell no tales
Dear me!
Devil-may-care
Diamonds cut diamonds
Vanished off the face of the earth
Do as you would be done by
Do me a favor!
Do not abuse the kindness of a
friend
Do not bother to pay me back now
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Do not ask me
Do not bet on it
Do not get me wrong
Do not give me that!
Do not make me laugh!
Do not mention it
Do not overstep the mark!
Do not push your luck
Do not say such a thing!
Do not split hairs!
Do not tempt the evil eye
Do not wear out your welcome
Do not wear your on your sleeve
Do someone proud
Done up like a dog's dinner
Done up like a dog's dinner
Do you still have the cheek/gall?
Do you want jam on it?
Do your damnedest!
Dot the I's and cross the t's
Double-tongued
Down to the ground
Drag one's feet
Draft it!
Draw a bead on someone
Draw the longbow
Dream on!
Drift with the stream
Drive a wedge
Drive someone to an early grave
Drive someone up the wall
Early to bed and early to rise

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!

makes a man healthy, wealthy and

wise
Easier said than done
Easy come, easy go
Easy does it!
Easy meat
Empty words
Empty-handed
End of story
Enough is enough
Enough of this coyness!

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Equality in injustice is justice

Every bit
Every cloud has a silver lining
Every dog has its day
Every Jack has his Jill
Every little helps
Every medal has its revers
Every now and then
Every potter cracks up his own

vessel
Every rule has its exceptions
Every man for himself
Every mother thinks her own

goose a swan
Every why has wherefore
Everyone knows me, him, etc
Everything comes to him who

....

waits
Every thing is coming up roses to
someone
Evil communications corrupt good
manners
Experto crede
Extremes meet
Faint heart never won fair love
Fair and square
Fair faces need no paint
Familiarity breeds contempt
Feather-brained
Feel one's oats
Fight like cat and dog

...

For a rainy day

For better, for worse
For good measure
For love
Have a heart!
Have a screw loose
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Have a terrible job

Have a tough time
Have another guess coming
Have ants in one's pants
Have bats in the belfry
Have butterflies in one's tummy
Have egg on one's face
Have eyes like a hawk
Have got it badly
Have got someone over a barrel
Have had a bellyful
Have it one's own way
Have many mouths to feed
Have no hand in the matter
Have no say
Have nothing to one's name
Have one foot in the grave
Have some cash stashed away
Have some shame!
Have someone under one's thumb
Have the cake and eat it too
Have the luck of the devil
Have the power of saints
He laughs best who laughs last
He-she joggle
He, that gets out of debt, grows

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rich
He who calls the tune must pay the

piper
He who fights and runs away lives
to fight another day
He who has someone at his back

comes to no harm
He who makes no mistakes makes

nothing
He who repeats the ill he hears of

another is the true slanderer

He who tries to keep up with the

Joneses gets out of breath

Heads or tails?
Swap: An exchange of one thing

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for another
Have horse sense
Hide-and-seek
High and dry
High and low
History repeats itself
Hit and miss
Hit someone where it hurts most
Hit the nail on the head
Hither and thither
Hobsons's choice
Hold!
Hold onto something like grim

death
Hold the floor
Hold the purse strings
Hole-and-corner
Holus-bolus
Home is where the heart is
Honest-to-goodness pounds
Honesty is the best policy
Horses for courses
Hot love is soon cold
Hot stuff
How cute!
How horrid!
How many times do I have to say

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it?
Do you want to bet?
How pretty!
Humor someone
Humbugger
I'm all right, Jack
I'm simply doing my job
I ask you!
I beg your pardon
I beseech you
I can feel it in my bones
I cannot help it
I cannot make you out!
I cannot say fairer than that
I would not wish something on my
I counted my chickens before they
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are hatched
I do not know where to start!
I give up!
I have got trouble on every hand
I have had it up here!
I have never felt something in all
my born days!
I have not got a second sight!
I was not born yesterday!
I shall believe it when I see it
I shall eat my hat
I smell a rat
I stand corrected!
I would if I can but I cannot
I would not presume to accept any
praise
If at first you do not succeed, try
again
If need be
If the cap/ hat fits (wear it)
If you cannot beat them, join them
If you do not like it, lump it!
Vile , wicked
If you have got it, flaunt it!
If you pay peanuts, you get
monkeys
Ignorance is bliss
In a mess
In a quandary
In arms
In broad daylight
In dribs and drabs
In safekeeping
In due time
In evidence
In no time
In one's birthday suit
In plain English
In snuff
In spite of one's nose
In the clear
In the dark

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In the firing line

In the Greek calends
In the heat of the moment
In the long run
In the mess
In the pink
In weal and woe
Insatiable greed
It is yours by exclusive right?
It can be done without.
It does not take a rocket scientist
It goes without saying
That is a bit steep!
It is a crying shame!
It is a free country
It is a long story
It is all farce!
It is just one thing after another!
It is not worth the paper it is
written on
It is a small world!
It is better to be safe than sorry
It is divine to forgive
It is do or die
It is easy to talk big
It is every man for himself
It is no good / use crying over split

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milk
It is quite beyond someone
It is the thought that counts
It looks bewitching around your

/

body/neck
It makes my flesh creep
It never rains but pours
It takes two to tango
It will all come out in the wash
Jack a-lent
Jack of all trades
Jack is as good as his master
Job's news
Join the club!
Jokester
Jump out of the frying pan into

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the fire
Just like that
Just you dare!
Keep dark about something
Keep an open house
Keep one's head over water
Keep oneself to oneself
Keep to the straight and narrow
Keep well!
Keep your shirt on!
Key-money
Kick someone out like a smelly

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!

old rag
Kick the habit
Kick up a row
Kill two birds with one stone
Kindly get out of here
Kiss and make up with someone
Know all the answer
Know someone, something inside
out
Know the ropes
Know the score
Known to one and all
Land on one's feet
Laugh in one's sleeve
Lay on the charm with someone
Lay off!
Live the life of Riley
Leave well alone!
Let bygones be bygones
Let matters run their course
Let me see the back of you!
Let sleeping dogs lie
Let the cat out of the bag
Let the dead bury the dead
Let us call a night
Let us make up
Let us put our cards in the table
Let words in at one ear and out at
the other
Lie in wait
Life has many (is full of) ups and
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downs
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Life is like a cucumber
Light-fingered
Like a bat out of hell (the

clappers)
Like a bull in a china shop
Like a fish out of water
Like father, like son
Like looking for a needle in a

haystack
Like mother, like daughter
Like priest, like people
Like putty in someone's hands
Like the cat that stole the cream
Like there is no tomorrow
Like two lovebirds
Live in clover
Living in a world of false hope
Lo and behold
Lock the stable door after the

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horse has bolted

Long time no see!
Look a gift-horse in the mouth
Look me straight in the eye
Look sharp!
Looking daggers
Love me, love my dog
Make a federal case out of

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something
Make a spectacle of oneself
Man proposes and God disposes
Manna from heaven
Many hands make light work
May someone roast in hell
May the evil-eye be struck blind!
May the like of it never come

upon you!
May you live long
Melt away
Mea culpa
Mend one's ways

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Mens sana in corpore sano (A

..

sound mind in a sound body)

Watch your step!
Minding my own business
Moderation is in all things
Money does not grow on trees
Money is no object
Money talks
Monkey business
More haste worse speed
More power to you!
More than can be tolerated
More than flesh and blood can

stand
More than you have had hot

dinners
Morning, noon, and night
Mr Big
Mr Right
Much ado about nothing
Mum's the word!
My heart bleeds for you!
Necessity knows no law
Necessity is the mother of

invention
Neither fish nor fowl
Neither here nor there
Never mind the cost!
Never put off till tomorrow what

can be done today

Never say die
Nil admirari
Nil desperandum
No dice, no soap
No hard feelings
No-one shall see hide or hair of

someone
No sooner said than done
No bodies deserve each other
No suck luck!
Not a peep out of you!

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Not all beer and skittles

Not cut out for the soft life
Not have a care in the world
Not have a red cent
Not know beans
Not know someone from Adam
Not know where to put oneself
Not know whether one is coming

or going
Not make old bones
Not on your life!
Not powder or paint oneself
Not sleep a wink
Not worth a damn
Not much/ nothing to write home

about
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Now you are talking!
Number one
O for the good old days!
Of no effect
Of sorts
Oh, wow, is not that something!
Old habits die hard
On an empty stomach
On a plate
On pins and needles; on

tenterhooks
On the breadline
On the hop
On the knock
On the rocks
On the safe side
On the quiet/ sly
On the shelf
On the tip of my tongue
On tick
Once bitten, twice shy
Once in a blue moon
Once in a while
One by one
One bad lot on top of another
One cannot get away with

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everything
One does not hang up streamers

after
One good turn deserves another
One in the eye
One man's meat is another man's

poison
One may have been saved the

bite, but the barking was bad

One of good breeding
One of those days
One step forward, two steps back
One would find a fault with a fat
goose
One's bark is always worse than

one's bite
One's feet follow one's fancy
One's nerves go to pieces
One's star is in the ascending
One's tongue cannot bear to

remain idle
Only by the skins of one's teeth
Onwards and upwards!
Open-handed
Out for the count
Out in the cold
Out of reason
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of the blue
Out on one's ear
Over my dead body!
Over the left
Out of the frying pan into the fire
Pack one's bags
Pangs of hunger
Pardon my French!
Pass in a crowd
Giving lip-service
Penny-wise and pound-foolish
People who live in glass houses
should not throw stones
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Picture it for yourself

Dwarf
Pitchers (walls) have ears
Play hard to get
Play the devil with someone
Play the fool
Play with edge tools
Poke one's nose into everything
Possession is nine-tenth of the law
Practice makes perfect
Practice what you preach
Pretty is as pretty does
Prince Charming
Promise someone the moon
Providence is always on the side

....

of the strongest battalions

Pull the wool over someone's eyes
Pull your socks up!
Punish the weak for the faults of

the strong
Put a sock in it!
Put all his eggs in one basket
Put in airs
Put on an act
Put one's foot in it/ rub salt into

the wound
Put someone in the cart
Put someone in the wrong
Put someone's nose out of joint
Put the cart before the horse
Quick on the uptake
Queen it over someone
Reach a conclusion
Read the writing on the wall
Render to Caesar what is

Caesar's
Right under his nose and he

cannot find it
Risen in the world
Rome was not built in a day
Safe and sound
Saved by the bell

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Says you!
Scarecrow
Scribbles
Search me!
Seeing is believing
Sell one's birthright for a mess of

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pottage
Sell one's soul
Set one's heart on something
Set someone right
She stoops to conquer
She wears the trousers
Short debts/ reckonings make

long friends
Short-tempered
Show promise
Shut your trap!
Silence gives consent
Since the year dot
Sing the blues
Sit bolt upright
Sitting on one's hands
Sitting on tenterhooks
Six of one and half a dozen of the

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other
Skin and bones
Sleep like a log
Sleep on a bed of roses
Sleight-of-hand
Sneeze at someone
So, so
Sob story
Sod's law
Someone has only got a pair of

hands
His name is mud
His nest egg
Son of a bitch!; Son of a gun!
Sour grapes
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Spill the beans
Spite the devil!
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Spoil the joke

Sponge on someone
Square meal
Stab in the back
Steady yourself!
Steal a march on someone
Stick in one's throat
Stick out like a sore thumb
Still on a dry land
Still waters run deep
Strike while the iron is hot
String along with someone
Such and such
Swallow the bait
Swallow the trick
Swear black is white
Sweat blood
Sweet-talk someone
Take a sledgehammer to crack a
walnut
Take five!
Take French leave
Take it easy!
Take his hat off
Take the law in his own hands
Take the wind out his sails
Take to heart
Talk a blue streak
Talk nineteen to the dozen
Talk of the devil, and he is sure to

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appear/ the devil will appear!

Tell me another one!
Tell that to the marines!; do not

give me that
That beats everything!
That bloodyhaunts you!
There is a turn-up for the books
That is all she wrote!
That is someone's funeral!
That's that!
That's life
That makes two of us
That will be the day!

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The absent party is not so faulty

The apple of his eye
The best is yet to come
The big jackpot just dropped into

his lap
The bigger they are, the harder

they fall
The bird has flown
The bottom line
The coast is clear
The darkest hour is just before

the dawn
The devil finds work for idle

hands
The die is cast
The end justifies the means
The fellow you know
The girl next door
The grass is always greener
The hole calls the thief
The honester man the worse luck
The ins and outs
The Laughing Academy
The least one can do
The lights are on but nobody's

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home
The longest day must have an end
The loud laugh bespeaks the

vacant mind
The low man on the totem pole
The man of the moment
The mills of God grind slowly, but

they grind exceedingly small

The mind boggles
The moment has arrived
The pitcher that goes often to the
well comes home broken at last
The rabble
The rest is history
The road to hell is paved with

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good intentions
The Seven Sleepers
The shoe-maker's wife is ill-shod
The short and the long of it
The show must go on
The sixty-four-thousand-dollar
question
The sooner the better
Turn a deaf ear to him
Twenty and twenty
Twist someone round his little

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finger
Two sides of the same coin
Vent his wrath
Vanish into the air
Use your loaf!
Upper ten
Ups and downs
Up yours!
Upon my word!
Up to the eye
Up and down
Under the table
Under his thumb
What do you think you are

!
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fooling!
What's the world coming to?
What's something when it's at

home?
What tutor shall we find for a

child of sixty years old

What's up?
When a man is going downhill,

everybody gives him a kick

When in Rome (do as the Romans
do)
When love fails we spy all faults
When the cat is away, the mice

...

will play
Hell

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Where there's a will there is a

way!
Where there's nothing, the king

loses his rights

There's no smoke without fire
By accident or design
Whose leg do you think you are

pulling?
Why do not you mind your own

....

business?
Why keep a dog and bark

....

yourself?
With pleasure
Without bothering to be precise
Without pausing for thought
Woolgather
Words spoken in the evening the
wind carries away
Work like a whirlwind
Workaholic
Would not budge
Would not hurt a fly
Would sell one's own

...

grandmother
Wring someone's withers
Write something off as a dead loss
You and yours
You are a riot!
You are joking!
You can bet your bottom dollar!
You can tell a book from its cover
You cannot get blood out of a
stone
You cannot make an omelet

without breaking eggs

Wake up and smell the coffee!
Warm the cockles of the heart
We can well do without someone
We have got a right one here!
Wear it in good health!
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Wear the willow

What a dead loss you are!
What a start to the day!
Timely
Tit for tat
To be in all fours with
To be on the safe side
To dig his own grave
To err is human
To fall into the trap
To fight tooth and nail
To be given the axe
To give the devil his due
To the crack of doom
To the letter
To visit the sins of fathers on sons
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Spend and God will send
Too many cooks, spoil the broth'
two pilots in the boat, it will sink
Touch and go
Touch wood
Truth will prevail
Third state
Third time lucky
Those who in quarrels interpose
must often expect a bloody nose
Tied to one's mother
Tight-fisted
Time flies when you are having

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fun!
Time is money
Time was
Time will tell
How time flies!
What bedlam!
What did your last servant die of?
What good fortune brought you
here!
What have we here?
What is cooking?
What's sauce for the goose (is

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sauce for the gander)

What's that to you?
What's big idea?
What's the rush?
What must be must be
Your sins have caught up with

...

you
You will never hear the end of it!
You will catch it!
You trashy good-for-nothing!
You snake-in-the-grass!
You should not give a tinker's
cuss!
You scratch my back and I will

!
!
!

scratch yours; I'll scratch your

back if you scratch mine
You said it!
You pay your money (and you

take your choice)

Well you may ask!
Live and learn
There's no accord where

everyman would be a lord

There's no tell
There's no time like the present
There is no two ways about it
There's one born every minute
There's safety in numbers
There is the rub
There was not a dry eye in the

house
They that have good store of

butter may put some in their

shoes
Things are quite informal
The straw that breaks the camel's
back
The whole (kit and) caboodle
The worm has turned

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There are plenty of other fish in

the sea
There's always a way
There's always a next time
There's life in the old dog yet
There's many a slip twixt cup and

lip
There's more kicks than

halfpence
There's more than one way to

skin a cat
You could have heard a pin drop
You have come at the right time!
You have to be cruel to be kind
You have to wait donkey's years
You are late riser!
You are little devil!
You win some, you lose some
You cannot teach an old dog new
tricks
You cannot take it with you
You cannot take any of it with

!
....

you
Advice is ever in want

Actions speak louder than words

Add fuel to the fire
After great effort, he explained
that water is water
Address people in the language

they can understand

The absent party is not faulty
After black clouds, clear weather
Always has been, always will be
A chip of the old block
Birds of feather flock together
Do as you would be done
Charity begins at home
Conciliation is the matter of the
law
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Cut your coat according to your

cloth
Easy come, easy go

A creaking gate hangs long

Do good and cast it into the sea
The end justifies the means
Every tide has its ebb
A friend in need is a friend indeed
No gains without pains
To err is human
Every cloud has a silver lining/

) (

Even Dark Clouds Can Have a

Silver Lining
Dont put your head in the lions

mouth
A flash in the pan
It is the end that counts
To have the best of both worlds
Curiosity killed the cat
Where is your ancient courage
Your facts are not very accurate
Better a devil we know than a

devil we do not know

Out of sight out of mind
Do not make a mountain out of a

molehill
The early bird catches the worm
Like father like son
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest
Too many cooks spoil the broth
People who live in glass houses

should not throw stones

Do not carry coal to Newcastle
Every bird has its mate
Liars have short wings
You must stoop if you have a low

door
Is going to cost you an arm and a

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leg
Look before you leap
absence makes the heart grow

fonder
Actions speak louder than words
All is not gold that glitters
God helps (or Heaven) them who
help them selves
Make hay while the sun shines
Man proposes and God disposes

... /

/
....

Man of God/ man of the cloth

Necessity has no law
Necessity is the mother of
invention
practice what you preach
Prevention is better than cure
put your trust in God, but keep

...

your powder dry

Silence gives consent
Strike while the iron is hot
The darkest hour is that before

dawn
When you are in Rome, do as the
Romans do!

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