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Idioms

All day long



Brush (something)
under the carpet

Draw the longbow

Keep (ones) fingers
crossed
Talk over
All over the
place
Burn the candle at
both ends

Drop the ball

Kith and kin

Think over
All set Burn the midnight
oil
(Have both) feet
planted firmly on
the ground

Let the devil take
the hindmost

Time is money

Apple of the eye

By chance Fine tune Light at the end of
the tunnel
Under the
weather
At long last Chew the fat Get over Like a cat on hot
bricks
Watch (ones)
step
At the coalface

Come true Have more than
one string to
(ones) bow

Out of the blue


At the drop of a
hat
Cross (ones)
finges
In the twinkling of
an eye
Running on empty


Bear fruit

Day after day

Just coming up to

Set (ones) sights on


Break of day

Dead to the world

Keep a civil tongue

Start with a clean
slate

Bring up Depart this life

Keep in mind

Taken aback




Proverbs
A good
beginning makes
a good ending


Cut your coat
according to your
cloth
Knowledge is
power

Look before you
leap
Nothing comes
free

After a storm,
comes a calm

Experience is the
best teacher

Laughter is the
best medicine

Money cannot buy
happiness

There are only
twenty-four hours
in a day
Blood is thicker
than water

Failure teaches
success

Laughter is the
shortest distance
between two
people

Money isn
everything

There is no such
thing as a free
lunch

Business before
pleasure

Health is better
than wealth

Like father, like
son

Never put off till
tomorrow what
you can do today

You win some,
you lose some

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