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