A-Z of Entries

NUMBERS

2-Gun Sam (see “two-gun Sam”)
40 winks (see “forty winks” and “catch forty winks” and “take forty winks”)
800 Pound Gorilla

A
accidentally on purpose
ace in the hole
actions speak louder than words
Adam’s apple
Advocatus Diaboli (see “devil’s advocate”)
African dominoes (see “devil’s bones”)
after all is said and done
after the fact
against the grain
alive and kicking
Almighty dollar  
all and sundry
all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others
all brawn and no brain (see “brawn and no brain”)
all cats are gray in the dark
all dressed up and no place to go
all sense and no nonsense
allez, allez, come in free (see “ollie, ollie, oxen free”)
all hat and no cattle
all men are enemies
an arm and a leg
another thing coming (see also “another think coming“)
another think coming (see also “another thing coming“)  
any excuse will serve a tyrant
apple of my eye
April Fool’s
argue with a fence post
armed to the teeth
as a rule of thumb (Part 1 – see “rule of thumb: update”)
as good as gold
as nimble as a cat on a haite backstane (see “cat on a hot tin roof”)
as slow as molasses in January (see “slow as molasses in January”)
as slow as molasses in winter (see “slow as molasses in January”)
as slow as molasses in wintertime (see “slow as molasses in January”)
as the crow flies
astroturf
at the cutting edge (see “cutting edge”)
at the drop of a hat
at the heels (see “on the heels”)
au contraire

B
back to the salt mines
backhanded compliment
bad apple spoils the barrel, a (see “one bad apple spoils the whole barrel”)
bad apple spoils the bunch, a (see “one bad apple spoils the whole barrel”)
bad excuse is better than none at all, a
bad is never good until worse happens
bad penny 
bada-bing
badabing
ballpark estimate (see “ballpark figure”)
ballpark figure
baloney
bananas (see “go bananas”)
baptism rain
barbershop quartet (see “Dutch rub”)
barge in
basket case
bats in the belfry
bat shit crazy
beat a dead horse (see “beating a dead horse”)
beat about the bush
beat all (see “beat the Dutch”)
beat around the bush (see “beat about the bush”)
beat the band (see “beat the Dutch”)
beat the devil’s tattoo
beat the Dutch
beat the odds
beat up his quarters
beat up quarters (see “beat up his quarters”)
beat up someone’s quarters (see “beat up his quarters”)
beating a dead horse
bee’s knees
beeline
beer and skittles (also see “skittles“)
bell, book, and candle
benchmark figure (see “ballpark figure”)
benefit of the doubt
best laid plans of mice and men, the (see “best laid schemes of mice and men, the”)
best laid schemes of mice and men, the
between a hammer and an anvil (see “between the Devil and the deep blue sea”)
between a rock and a hard place (see “between the Devil and the deep blue sea”)
between the Devil and the deep blue sea
big hat and no cattle (see “all hat and no cattle”)
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, a
bite the bullet
Black Friday (as in “retail”)
Black Friday (as in “stock market”)
Black Maria
Black Saturday (see “Black Friday”)
black out (as in “censorship”)
black out (as in “no power”)
black out (as in “unconscious”)
blackmail
blimey
bling
bling bling (see “bling”)
bloom where you’re planted
blue blazes
blue light special
blue murder
blue plate special
blues, the
blurb
bobby
bogey (see “bogey golf”)
bogey golf
bogey man (see “bogey golf”)
bold as brass
bone up on
boondoggle
bosom buddies
Boxing Day
brass (see “bold as brass”)
brass monkey weather (see “freeze the balls off a brass monkey”)
brawn and brain (see “brawn and no brain”)
brawn and no brain
break a leg  
break the fourth wall (see “fourth wall, the”)
brevity is the soul of wit
brick and click
brick-and-mortar store 
bringing home the bacon
broad in the beam
brother’s keeper (see “my brother’s keeper”)
brown out (as in “censorship”)
brown out (as in “no power”)
brown out (as in “unconscious”)
Brown Thursday (as in “retail”)
buck stops here, the
budge an inch 
Buncombe (see “bunko”)
bunk (see “bunko”)
bunko
bunkum (see “bunko”)
burn rubber
butter no parsnips (see “many words will not fill a bushel”)
by bell, by book, and by candle (see “bell, book, and candle”)
by hook or by crook
by night all cats are grey (see “all cats are gray”)

C
cakewalk
call of the wild
calling shotgun
camel’s nose is in the tent, the (see “camel’s nose is under the tent”)
camel’s nose is under the tent, the
canary in the coal mine (see “hairy canary”)
candle in the dark
carry coals to Newcastle
carrying coals to Newcastle (see “carry coals to Newcastle”)
cat always lands on its feet, a (see “cats always land on their feet”)
cat on a hot bake-stone (see “cat on a hot tin roof”)
cat on hot bricks (see “cat on a hot tin roof”)
cat on a hot tin roof
catch forty winks (see “forty winks” and “take forty winks”)
catfishing
cat’s pyjamas
catawampous (see “cattywampus”)
catawampus (see “cattywampus”)
catiwampus (see “cattywampus”)
cats always land on their feet
cats and dogs (see “raining cats and dogs”)
cattywampus 
cause célèbre
chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a
change horses in midstream
chasing the dragon
cheese (see “whole cheese”)
cherry on top
chicken feed
chickenfeed (see “chicken feed”)
chill (see “chill out”)
chillaxin’ (see “chill out”)
chill out
choke
clean as a hound’s tooth (also see “white as a hound’s tooth“)
clear Mackay, the (see “the real McCoy)
close but no banana (see “close but no cigar”)
close but no cigar
coast is clear, the
cock your pistol
cold day in Hell
cold turkey
common sense is not so common
comstockery
cookie crumbles (see “that’s how the cookie crumbles”)
cool as a cucumber
cool beans
cop
cop out
cor blimey (see “blimey”)
cosmic red out (see “red out”)
cotton pickin’ minute
cotton picking minute (see “cotton pickin’ minute”)
couch potato (see “mouse potato”)
cowards die many deaths
cowards die many times before their deaths (see “cowards die many deaths”)
crawfishing
crazy as a bed bug
crazy as a box of frogs (see “mad as a box of frogs”)
crazy as a fox (see “crazy like a fox)
crazy as a loon
crazy as a Mad Hatter (see “crazy as a loon”)
crazy as a March Hare (see “crazy as a loon”)
crazy like a fox (see “crazy as a fox”)
creature comforts
crisp and clean and no caffeine
cross to bear
cross your fingers
customer is always right, the
cut from the same cloth
cut it out
cute as a button
cute as a button quail (see “cute as a button”)
cutting edge
cyberchondria

D
daffy
daffy-down-dilly (see “daffy”)
dark horse
day late and a dollar short, a
days on end
dead as a doornail
dead duck
dead line (see “deadline”)
dead man’s hand
dead men don’t bite (see “dead men tell no tales”)
dead men tell no secrets (see “dead men tell no tales”)
dead men tell no tales
dead pan
dead-pan (see “dead pan”)
deadpan (see “dead pan”)
dead right
dead to rights (see “dead right”)
dead ringer
deadline
deaf as a doornail
deliver to the winds (see “throw caution to the wind”)
devil dances in empty pockets, the
devil dodger
devil is beating his wife, the
devil is chasing his wife, the  (see “devil is beating his wife, the”)
devil is in the details, the
devil is kissing his wife, the (see “devil is beating his wife, the”)
devil is whipping his wife, the (see “devil is beating his wife, the”)
devil may care
devil to pay
devil’s advocate
devil’s bedpost
devil’s bones
devil’s lane
devil’s printer (see “Printer’s devil”)
devil’s strip
diamond in the rough
dibs (as in “first dibs”)
dickens, the
dickens of a time (see “the dickens”)
digirati
dilly ding, dilly dong
dime store hood
do a Houdini
do as I say and not as I do
do the graceful
dog and pony show
dog days
dollars-and-cents
dollars to buttons (see “dollars to doughnuts” and “dollars to dumplings“)
dollars to donuts (see “dollars to doughnuts” and “dollars to dumplings“)
dollars to doughnuts (also see “dollars to dumplings“)
dollars to dumplings (also see “dollars to doughnuts“)
done like a Frenchman
don’t change horses in midstream (see “change horses in midstream”)
don’t have a horse in this race (see “a horse in this race”)
don’t spare the horses
don’t take any wooden nickels
do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do
double Dutch
double talk (see “double Dutch”)
doughboy
down at heel
down at the heel (see “down at heel”)
down in the dumps
down the rabbit hole 
down the rat hole
down to earth
down with it (see “down with that”)
down with that
dragnet
dressed to the nines
dressed to kill
drop a brick
drop a dime
drum up business
drunk beyond normal means (see “black out as in “unconscious”)
duck out
duck soup
ducks in a row
dude
dumb cluck
Dutch date (see “Dutch treat”)
Dutch dinner (see “Dutch treat”)
Dutch lunch (see “Dutch treat”)
Dutch reach
Dutch rub
Dutch treat
Dutch uncle (see “talk like a Dutch uncle”)
Dutchman’s breeches
Dutchman’s draft
Dutchman’s log
Dutchman’s pants (see “Dutchman’s breeches”)
Dutchman’s trousers (see “Dutchman’s breeches”)

E
early bird catches the worm, the
early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise (see “early to bed, early to rise”)
early to bed, early to rise
easy as pie
eat, drink and be merry
eat humble pie
eat like a horse
eaten out of house and home
edutainment
eeny meeny miney moe
egg on their faces (see “egg on your face”)
egg on your face 
egghead
empty wagon makes a lot of noise, an (also see “loaded wagon makes no noise, a“)
end crowns the act
end justifies the means (see “end crowns the act”)
English on it
enough to feed Cox’s Army (see “enough to feed Coxey’s Army)
enough to feed Coxey’s Army
enough to give a gopher heartburn
everything’s peachy (see “everything’s just peachy”)
everything’s just peachy (see “everything’s just peachy”)
excuse my French (see “pardon my French”)

F
face like a wet weekend, a
face that would stop a clock, a (see “face to stop a clock”)
face that could stop a clock, a (see “face to stop a clock”)
face to stop a clock, a
fair play
fait accompli
falling asleep
familiarity breeds contempt
far out
fast and loose
fat of the land
fauxpology
feet to the fire
fight like cats and dogs
fight tooth and nail (see “fight like cats and dogs”)
fill the bill
Finagle’s Law
fine as a fiddle (see “fit as a fiddle”)
finger in every pie
fire-eater (see “fire-eating”)
fire-eating
firing arrows
fishing for the moon in the water
fit as a farthing fiddle (see “fit as a fiddle”)
fit as a fiddle
fit as a fiddle in fine fettle (see “fit as a fiddle”)
fit the bill
fit to be tied
flash in the pan
fling down the gauntelet (see “throw down the gauntelet”)
flog a dead horse (see “beating a dead horse”)
flogging a dead horse (see “beating a dead horse”)
fly by the seat of your pants
fly by the seat of your trousers (see “fly by the seat of your pants”)
fly off the handle
Flying Dutchman, the
flyspecking (see “nitpicking”)
fool’s errand
foot the bill
footloose
footloose and fancy free
for goodness sake
for the birds
forty ways from Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
forty ways to Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
forty winks (see “catch forty winks” and “take forty winks”)
four legs good (see “four legs good, two legs bad”)
four legs good, two legs bad
fourth wall, the
fox in the henhouse
freegan
freeze the balls off a brass monkey
frenemy
from Dan to Bathsheba
from Dan to Beersheba (see “from Dan to Bathsheba”)
from pillar to post
from post to pillar (see “from pillar to post”)
from scratch
full Monty
fuzz
fuzzy math

G
gauche
gay blade
genome
gerrymander
get up with the cows and go to bed with the chickens (see “go to bed with the chickens and get up with the cows”)
get your dander up
get your ducks in a row (see “ducks in a row”)
give someone the gears
go bananas
go by the board
go like hotcakes (see “sell like hotcakes”)
go like sixty (see “like sixty”)
go to bed with the chickens (see “go to bed with the chickens and get up with the cows”)
go to bed with the chickens and get up with the cows
gobsmacked
God is in the details (see “the devil is in the details”)
God willing and the creek don’t rise
Going Bodmin
Going Digby (see “Going Bodmin”)
going Dutch (see “Dutch treat”)
gold digger
golf caddie
golf caddy (see “golf caddie”)
good money after bad
good things come in threes
goody goody (see “goody two shoes”)
goody two shoes
Gowk’s errand (see “fool’s errand”)
grassroots
gullywasher
gullywumper (see “gullywasher”)

H
half of it, the
Hail Mary pass
Hail Mary play (see “Hail Mary pass”)
hair out of place (see “not a hair out of place”)
hairy canary
hair of the dog (part 1)
hair of the dog (part 2)
hand in the cookie jar
handicap
hangout
happily ever after
happy as a clam
happy ever after (see “happily ever after”)
happy go lucky
harvest moon
haul coals to Newcastle (see “carry coals to Newcastle”)
have a beef with someone
have a screw loose (see “screw loose”)
have kittens
have no horse in this race (see “a horse in this race”)
have your ducks in a row (see “ducks in a row”)
head over heels
head-desking
heart on my sleeve
heavens to murgatroyd
heavy cross to bear (see “cross to bear”)
heeled
Hell bent to leather
held in leash (see “on a short leash”)
helter skelter
hen-pecked (see “henpecked”)
henpecked
here’s mud in your eye (see “mud in your eye”)
hippo handing (see “Dutch rub”)
his name is mud
hit the nail on the head
hit the sack
hitting on all sixes
Hobson’s choice
hocus pocus
hold someone’s feet to the fire (see “feet to the fire”)
hold the horses (see “hold your horses”)
hold the hosses (see “hold your horses”)
hold the line (as in “strategy”)
hold the line (as in “communications”)
hold your horses
hold water
holey dollar
holy deadlock
holy moley
holy moly (see “holy moley”)
Holy See
holy Toledo!
Home, James, and don’t spare the horses (see “don’t spare the horses”)
horse around (see “horsing around”)
horse collar tackle
horse in this race, a
horsing around
horse of a different colour
horse of another colour (see “horse of a different colour”)
horse play  (see “horsing around”)
horse-play  (see “horsing around”)
horse of that colour (see “horse of a different colour”)
horseplay  (see “horsing around”)
horsepower
hot as a two dollar pistol
hot bedding (see “hot desk”)
hot bunking (see “hot desk”)
hot cakes (see “sell like hot cakes”)
hot desk
hot desking (see “hot desk”)
hot racking (see “hot desk”)
hot on the heels (see “on the heels”)
hot on the trail (see “on the heels”)
hoteling (see “hot desk”)
hot seat
how the cookie crumbles (see “that’s how the cookie crumbles”)
hubba hubba
hundred ways from Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
hundred ways to Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
hungry as a church mouse (see “poor as a church mouse”)

I
I brook no truck with you
I heard it through the grapevine
I’d rather drink from the cup of mediocrity
ice cream cone (see “snow cone”)
icing on the cake
if ifs and ands were pots and pans
if it weren’t for you and big potatoes, we’d only have small potatoes
if looks could kill
if my grandmother had wheels 
if worse comes to worse (see “if worse comes to worst”)
if worse comes to worst
if worst comes to worst (see “if worse comes to worst”)
if you want something done well, do it yourself
if you’re not a socialist at twenty, you have no heart
ifs and ands (see “if ifs and ands were pots and pans”)
ignorance is bliss
I’ll be swizzled
I’m a Dutchman
I’m the Queen of England
in a bit of a pickle (see “in a pickle”)
in a jiffy
in a pickle
in a New York Minute
in a people of the blind, the one-eyed man is king (see “one-eyed man is king, the”)
in glorious technicolor
in high cotton
in the pudding club (see “up the duff”)
Indian gift (see “Indian giver”)
Indian giver
ins and outs
in stitches
in the ballpark (see “ballpark figure”)
in the black
in the closet
in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king (see “one-eyed man is king, the”)
in the dark
in the dark, all cats are gray (see “all cats are gray”)
in the doghouse
in the doldrums
in the hot seat (see “hot seat”)
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king (see “one-eyed man is king, the”)
in the limelight
in the mind’s eye
in the monarchy of the blind, the one-eyed man is king (see “one-eyed man is king, the”)
in the pink
in the red
in the twinkling of an eye
into the fire (see “out of the frying pan into the fire”)
in vivid, living color
Indian summer
iron out the kinks
is the Pope Catholic?
Ish Kabibble
it’s a cakewalk (see “cakewalk”)
it’s a doozy
it’s a gas
it’s in a Wewoka switch
it’s in the bag

J
Jack Canuck
jack of all trades
jailbird
jasper
jay
jay driving
jay town
jaywalking
jelly bean
jerkwater town
Jesse James (as in “gambling”)
Jesus boots
Jesus sandals (see “Jesus boots”)
Jesus shoes (see “Jesus boots”)
Jesus slippers (see “Jesus boots”)
John Hancock
jump the shark
just peachy (see “everything’s just peachy”)

K
keep it under your hat (see “under your hat”)
keep your powder dry
kept in leash (see “on a short leash”)
kettle of fish
kewl beanz (see “cool beans”)
kool beanz (see “cool beans”)
kick the bucket
killed by kindness
King’s ransom 
kith and kin
kissing cousins
kneehigh to a grasshopper
knick knack paddywhack 
knock, knock, who’s there 
knock on wood
know the half of it (see “half of it, the”)
know the ropes

L
lame duck
landed gentry
laughing stock
leaning on lamp posts (see “miracles leaning on lamp posts”)
leap in the dark
left-handed compliment (see “backhanded compliment”)
lefty loosey, righty tighty
lefty Lucy, right tighty (see “lefty loosey, righty tighty”)
legal beagle (see “legal eagle”)
legal eagle
leopard can’t change his spots, a
let her rip
let your mouth overload your ass (see “let your mouth overload your back”)
let your mouth overload your back
let your mouth overload your butt (see “let your mouth overload your back”)
let your trouble tarry till its own day comes (see “never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you”)
let’s boycott
let sleeping dogs lie
like a goose voting for an early Christmas (see “like turkeys voting for Christmas”)
like a hen needs a flag
like a turkey voting for an early Christmas (see “like turkeys voting for Christmas”)
like sixty (see “go like sixty”)
like turkeys voting for Christmas
like white on rice
little summer (see “Indian summer”)
living in high cotton (see “in high cotton”)
loaded wagon makes no noise, a  (also see “empty wagon makes a lot of noise, an“)
loose cannon
lose your marbles
lost your marbles (see “lose your marbles”)
love all, trust few (see “love many, trust few”)
love many, trust few
lunatic in charge of the asylum (see “fox in the henhouse”)
lunatic running the asylum (see “fox in the henhouse”)
lush
lynch mob

M
MacGyverism
mackamuck (see “muck-a-muck”)
mad as a box of frogs
mad as a March hare
make both ends meet (see “make ends meet”)
make ends meet
make no bones about it
make your bed and lie in it
man after my own heart
mandarin (see “Whitehall mandarin”)
manifest destiny
manna from heaven
manners make the man
manners maketh man (see “manners make the man”)
many a mickle makes a muckle
many a true word is said in jest
many a true word is said in joking (see “many a true word is said in jest”)
many a true word is spoken in jest (see “many a true word is said in jest”)
many words will not fill a bushel
mark seven times and cut once (see “measure twice, cut once”)
marry in haste
manpology (see “fauxpology”)
mansplaining
mattress actress
measure thrice before you cut once (see “measure twice, cut once”)
measure thy cloth ten times (see “measure twice, cut once”)
measure twice, cut once
mice and men (see “best laid schemes of mice and men, the”)
mike and ike
mile a minute
milk of human kindness
miracles leaning on lamp posts
miss a trick
monkey scrub (see “Dutch rub”)
monkey watching the bananas (see “fox in the henhouse”)
monkey’s uncle, a
monkeys out there (see “freeze the balls off a brass monkey”)
moons and goochers
more cooks the worse potage, the (see “too many cooks spoil the broth”)
more fun than a barrel of monkeys
more fun than a barrel full of monkeys (see “more fun than a barrel of monkeys”)
Mother’s Heart (see “Black Maria”)
mountain out of a molehill (see “mountain out of a moleskin)
mountain out of a moleskin  (see “mountain out of a molehill”)
mouse potato
move the goalposts
muck-a-muck
muck and money go together (see “where there’s muck there’s brass”)
muckety muck (see “muck-a-muck”)
mucky muck (see “muck-a-muck”)
mud in the eye (see “mud in your eye”)
mud in your eye
Mulligan
Mulligan, Swat (see “Swat Mulligan”)
mum’s the word
Murphy’s Law
my brother’s keeper
my pears are poaching

N
nailed it
nailing one’s colours to the mast (see “nail your colours to the mast”)
nail your colours to the mast
naked truth
needle in a haystack
neither a borrower nor a lender be
never inspect the teeth of a gift horse (see “never look a gift horse in the mouth”)
never look a gift horse in the mouth
never miss a trick (see “miss a trick”)
never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
never twice without thrice (see “never two without three”)
never two without three
New York minute (see “in a New York minute”)
nick of time
nick nack paddywhack (see “knick knack paddywhack”)
nilly willy (see “willy nilly”)
nipping at the heels (see “on the heels”)
nitpicking
no fuss, no muss
no fuss, no muss, no coconuts (see “no fuss, no muss”)
no ifs, ands or buts (see “if ifs and ands were pots and pans”)
no man ought to look a given horse in the mouth (see “never look a gift horse in the mouth”)
no muss, no fuss (see “no fuss, no muss”)
noogie (see “Dutch rub”)
nopology (see “fauxpology”)
not a hair out of place
not for nothing

O
of mice and men (see “best laid schemes of mice and men, the”)
off the cuff 
off the cuff (see “on the cuff”)
off the hook
ollie, ollie, oxen free
olly, olly, oxen free (see “ollie, ollie, oxen free”)
on a short leash
on a wing and a prayer
on the cuff 
on the cuff (see “off the cuff”)
on the cutting edge (see “cutting edge”)
on the heels
on the hot seat (see “hot seat”)
once in a blue moon
one bad apple spoils the whole barrel
one bad apple spoils the boxful (see “one bad apple spoils the whole barrel”)
one-eyed man is king, the
out at heel (see “down at heel”)
out for a rip
out of the blue
out of the frying pan (see “out of the frying pan into the fire”)
out of the frying pan into the fire
out on a rip (see “out for a rip”)
outside the box
over the top
overtourism

P
package deal
paddle your own canoe
paddywagon
pan out
panned out (see “pan out”)
Pandora’s box
past extant (see “fauxpology”)
pay your money and take your chances (see “pay your money and take your choices” and “Hobson’s Choice“)
pay your money and take your choices (see “pay your money and take your chances” and “Hobson’s Choice“)
pardon my French
peachy (see “everything’s just peachy”)
peachy keen (see “everything’s just peachy”)
peanut gallery
peanut politics (see “peanut gallery”)
peanuts (see “chicken feed”)
penny dropped, the
penny saved is a penny earned, a
penny wise and pound foolish (see “penny wise, pound foolish”)
penny wise, pound foolish
picture is worth a thousand words, a
picture perfect
pie in the sky
pieces of eight
pieman
pick up the tab (see “foot the bill”)
pig in a poke
pimp steak
pink elephants
pipped at the post
pipped on the gong (see “pipped at the post”)
pipped on the post (see “pipped at the post”)
pipped on the tape (see “pipped at the post”)
pipped to the post (see “pipped at the post”)
Philadelphia lawyer  (see “legal eagle”)
platonic relationship
pleased as Punch
plumb tuckered out (see “tuckered out”)
political football
poor as a church mouse
Pope’s curse (see “bell, book, and candle”)
porkies (see “telling porky pies”)
possession is nine tenths of the law
pour good money after bad (see “good money after bad”)
pour salt in an open wound
premeditated incompetence (see “weaponized incompetence”)
pride is a dog that won’t hunt (see “that dog won’t hunt”)
proud as Punch (see “pleased as Punch”)
pull a Houdini (see “do a Houdini”)
pulls my trigger
put some English on it (see “English on it”)
putting on the Ritz

Q
Queen For The Day
Queen of England (see “I’m The Queen Of England”)

R
raining cats and dogs
reading someone the riot act
real McCoy, the
real Mackay, the (see “the real McCoy”)
real McKay, the (see “the real McCoy”)
red-handed
red letter day
red out
red night at morning, sailors take warning (see “red sky at night, sailors delight”)
red sky at night, sailors delight
red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning (see “red sky at night, sailors delight”)
red sky at morning, shepherds warning (see “red sky at night, sailors delight”)
red sky at night, shepherds delight (see “red sky at night, sailors delight”)
reverse English (see “English on it”)
riding roughshod
right as an adamant (see “right as rain”)
right as a glove (see “right as rain”)
right as a line (see “right as rain”)
right as a ninepence (see “right as rain”)
right as rain
right as my leg (see “right as rain”)
righty tighty, lefty loosey (see “lefty loosey, righty tighty”)
rings a bell
road to Hell is paved with good intentions, the
rob Peter to pay Paul
rolling the house (see “TPing the yard”)
rolling the yard (see “TPing the yard”)
rouge your knees
roughshod (see “riding roughshod”)
rub it in
rub it in their faces (see “rub it in”)
rub it in their noses (see “rub it in”)
ruckus
rucus (see “ruckus”)
rukus (see “ruckus”)
rule of thumb (Part 1 – see “as a rule of thumb”)
rule of thumb (Part 2: update)
Russian haircut (see “Dutch rub”)

S
Sam Hill
save for a rainy day
saved by the bell
savoir faire
score twice before you cut once (see “measure twice, cut once”)
scotch the wheels
screw loose
scribbledehobble
sealioning
sell like hotcakes
send her packing (see “send him packing”)
send him packing
send a shiver down my back (see “send shivers down my spine”)
send a shiver down my spine (see “send shivers down my spine”)
send shivers down my back (see “send shivers down my spine”)
send shivers down my spine
send shivers up and down my back (see “send shivers down my spine”)
send shivers up and down my spine (see “send shivers down my spine”)
settle the account (see “foot the bill”)
seven ways from Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
seven ways to Sunday
shaggy dog story
shake a stick at
shaking of a lamb’s tail (see “two shakes of a lamb’s tail”)
shebang
she’s a pip
shift the goalposts (see “move the goalposts”)
shilly shally (see also “beat about the bush“)
shiver me timbers (see “send shivers down my spine”)
shiver my timbers (see “send shivers down my spine”)
shoot the breeze
shot in the dark
shotgun marriage (see “shotgun wedding”)
shotgun wedding
shoot your cookies (see “toss your cookies”)
shutterbug
sick as a dog
sign of the times
sin bin
sit on the fence (see “straddle the fence”)
six ways from Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
six ways to Sunday (see “seven ways to Sunday”)
skedaddle
skilled incompetence (see “weaponized incompetence”)
skin of his teeth
skin of my teeth (see “skin of his teeth”)
skin of your teeth (see “skin of his teeth”)
skittles (also see “beer and skittles“)
skunks in the parlor
slap on the wrist
Slick Willie
Slick Willy (see “slick willie”)
slow as molasses in January
slow as molasses in winter (see “slow as molasses in January”)
slow as molasses in wintertime (see “slow as molasses in January”)
smart alec
smart as a whip
smof
snap shot
snap your cookies (see “toss your cookies”)
snippersnapper (see “whippersnapper”)
snow cone (as in “baseball”)
snowball’s chance in Hell
soapbox
something stinks around here
sorry sight
sour grapes
southpaw
space out
special kind of stupid
spic and span
spiffed
spiflicated (see “spiffed”)
spit or go blind
spitballing
spitfire
Spruce Goose
stark mad (see “stark raving mad”)
stark raving mad
stark staring mad (see “stark raving mad”)
stealing her thunder (see “stealing his thunder”)
stealing his thunder
step on a duck
stiff upper lip
still waters run deep
storm in a teacup (see “tempest in a teacup”)
storm in a teapot (see “tempest in a teacup”)
straddle the fence
straining at the leash
strategic incompetence (see “weaponized incompetence”)
strong as a buffalo (see “strong as an ox”)
strong as a bull (see “strong as an ox”)
strong as an ox
suffering succotash
Sunday driver
Swaboda
swag
swap horses in midstream (see “change horses in midstream”)
swap horses crossing the river (see “change horses in midstream”)
Swat Mulligan (see “Mulligan, Swat”)
sweets to the sweet
swing for her (see “swing for that”)
swing for him (see “swing for that”)
swing for that
swizzled (see “I’ll be swizzled”)

T
take English leave (see “take French leave”)
take forty winks (see “forty winks” and “catch forty winks”)
take French leave
take leave of your senses (see “taken leave of your senses”)
take my Texas time
taken leave of your senses (see “take leave of your senses”)
takes the cake
talk into the wind (see “shoot the breeze”)
talk is cheap
talk like a Dutch uncle
talking turkey
talking cold turkey (see “cold turkey”)
tar heel
teed off
teed off on (see “teed off”)
telling porky pies
tempest in a teacup
tempest in a teapot (see “tempest in a teacup”)
Texas time (see “take my Texas time”)
that dog won’t hunt
that’s a sack of cold chestnuts
that’s how the cookie crumbles
the very pink of (see “in the pink”)
there’s method in my madness
thick as thieves
thief watching the bank vault (see “fox in the henhouse”)
third degree
thon
those who go a-borrowing, go a-sorrowing
throw a stick at (see “shake a stick at”)
throw caution to the wind
throw discretion to the wind (see “throw caution to the wind”)
throw down the gauntelet
throw good money after bad (see “good money after bad”)
throw in the towel
tickled pink
till the cows come home
to boot
token Indian
to a T
to a tee (see “to a T”)
to the tee (see “to a T”)
to the manner born (see “to the manor born”)
to the manor born
to the nines (see “dressed to the nines”)
too little too late (see “day late and a dollar short, a”)
too many chiefs and not enough Indians
too many cooks spoil the broth
too many cooks spoil the soup (see “too many cooks spoil the broth”)
too many cooks spoil the stew (see “too many cooks spoil the broth”)
too many irons in the fire
too much of a good thing
tooth and nail
top banana
toss your cookies
to thine own self be true 
touch wood (see “knock on wood”)
touch wood and whistle (see “knock on wood”)
towheaded
tower of strength
TPing the house (see “TPing the yard”)
TPing the yard
tricked out
trompe l’oeil
tucker out (see “tuckered out”)
tuckered out
turned down
tune in
tune out
turkey never voted for an early Christmas, a (see “like turkeys voting for Christmas”)
two bits
two-dollar pistol (see “hot as a two dollar pistol”)
two-gun Sam
two legs bad (see “four legs good, two legs bad”)
two shakes of a lamb’s tail
two shakes of a nanny goat’s tail (see “two shakes of a lamb’s tail”)
twush

U
under your hat
unfriend
united we stand, divided we fall
until the cows come home (see “till the cows come home”)
up in arms
up the duff

V
vanish into thin air
vegan
vocal fry that could cook eggs, a

W
waiting for the other shoe to drop 
wash your mouth out with soap
water under the bridge
watershed event (see “watershed moment”)
watershed moment
weak as water
weaponized incompetence
weasel out
well-heeled
Wellington boots
what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
what in blue blazes (see (“blue blazes”)
what the dickens (see “the dickens”)
what’s done is done
what’s past is prologue
wheel and deal
when all candles be out, all cats be gray (see “all cats are gray”)
when Hell freezes over
when pigs fly
when you’re all dressed up and no place to go (see “all dressed up and no place to go”)
where the bear sits in the buckwheat
where there’s muck there’s brass
where there’s muck there’s money (see “where there’s muck there’s brass”)
whip smart (see “smart as a whip”)
whipperginnie (see “whippersnapper”)
whippersnapper
whistle-stop campaign
white as a hound’s tooth (also see “clean as a hound’s tooth”)
white elephant
white on rice (see “like what on rice”)
white out (as in “to erase”)
white out (as in “weather conditions”)
Whitehall mandarin
whiter than white
Whoa Emma (see “Whoa Nellie”)
Whoa Jack (see “Whoa Nellie”)
Whoa Nellie
whole cheese
whole shebang (see “shebang”)
wild goose chase (see “fool’s errand”)
willy nilly
wing it
with a grain of salt 
wolf guarding the sheep (see “fox in the henhouse”)
wolf in sheep’s clothing
woof your cookies (see “toss your cookies”)
word to the wise, a (Part 1)
word to the wise, a (Part 2: update)

X

Y
Yankee dime (see “Dutch rub”)
yanks
yellow journalism
you can’t have your cake and eat it, too
you never had it so good

Z
zone out