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