Fortune is not moribund.

Add Farberisms from Prof. Dave Farber.

From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: proff@iq.org (Julian Assange)
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 03:29:08 -0400
Subject: Re: farberisms

Fine with me

At 02:27 PM 10/20/2001 +1000, you wrote:


>Hi Dave,
>
>I've just come accross your list of `Farberisms', which had me in
>stiches. As these are deliciously `fortune'esqe, I'd like to add
>them to the NetBSD distribution. Do you have any objections?
>
>Cheers,
>Julian.

2 files changed, 1862 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/Makefile b/fortune/datfiles/Makefile
index dae9b484..3694b7c3 100644
--- a/fortune/datfiles/Makefile
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/Makefile
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-#	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.30 2000/12/30 17:51:26 sommerfeld Exp $
+#	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.31 2001/10/20 09:33:39 proff Exp $
 #	@(#)Makefile	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 
 .include <bsd.own.mk>			# for INSTALL_OFFENSIVE_FORTUNES
 
 SRCFILES=	fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy unamerican-o limerick \
-		netbsd
+		netbsd farber
 DATFILES=	fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat \
 		fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat fortunes2-o fortunes2-o.dat \
 		limerick.dat limerick-o limerick-o.dat unamerican-o \
-		unamerican-o.dat netbsd.dat netbsd-o netbsd-o.dat
+		unamerican-o.dat netbsd.dat netbsd-o netbsd-o.dat \
+		farber.dat
 
 # TO AVOID INSTALLING THE POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE FORTUNES, RUN 'make' with
 # "INSTALL_OFFENSIVE_FORTUNES=NO", or set "INSTALL_OFFENSIVE_FORTUNES=NO"
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ realall: ${DATFILES}
 
 # Normal fortunes: build directly from data files.
 
-fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat limerick.dat netbsd.dat:
+fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat limerick.dat netbsd.dat farber.dat:
 	${STRFILE} -rs ${.CURDIR}/${.TARGET:R} ${.TARGET}
 fortunes.dat:	fortunes
 fortunes2.dat:	fortunes2
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ startrek.dat:	startrek
 zippy.dat:	zippy
 limerick.dat:	limerick
 netbsd.dat:	netbsd
+farber.dat:	farber
 
 # Obscene fortunes: we have to build source and data files
 
diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/farber b/fortune/datfiles/farber
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6edc88e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fortune/datfiles/farber
@@ -0,0 +1,1856 @@
+A buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
+%
+A carpenter's son doesn't have shoes.
+%
+A dog under any other coat is still a dog.
+%
+A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.
+%
+A lot of these arguments are fetious.
+%
+A lot of things are going to be bywashed.
+%
+A lot of water has gone over the bridge since then.
+%
+A problem swept under the table occasionally comes home to roost.
+%
+A rocky road is easier to travel than a stone wall.
+%
+A stop-gap measure is better than no gap at all.
+%
+A whole hog is better than no hole at all.
+%
+Abandon ship all you who enter here!
+%
+After that, we'll break our gums on the computer.
+%
+All the hills of beans in China don't matter.
+%
+All the lemmings are coming home to roost.
+%
+All the lemmings are going home to roost.
+%
+All you have to do is fill in the missing blanks.
+%
+An avalanche is nipping at their heels.
+%
+An enigma is only as good as its bottom line.
+%
+An ounce of prevention is better than pounding the table.
+%
+And I take the blunt of it!
+%
+Another day, a different dollar.
+%
+Any kneecap of yours is a friend of mine.
+%
+Any storm in a port.
+%
+Anybody who marries her would stand out like a sore thumb.
+%
+Anything he wants is a friend of mine.
+%
+Are there any problems we haven't beat out to death?
+%
+As long as somebody let the cat out of the bag, we might as well
+spell it correctly.
+%
+At the end of every pot of gold, there's a rainbow.
+%
+Before they made him they broke the mold.
+%
+Beware a Trojan bearing a horse.
+%
+Boulder dash!
+%
+By a streak of coincidence, it really happened.
+%
+By the time we unlock the bandages, he will have gone down the drain.
+%
+Cheapness doesn't come free.
+%
+Clean up or fly right.
+%
+Clean up your own can of worms!
+%
+Come down off your charlie horse.
+%
+Conceptual things are in the eye of the beholder.
+%
+Deep water runs still.
+%
+Dig a hole and bury it.
+%
+Dig yourself a hole and bury it.
+%
+Do it now; don't dingle-dally over it.
+%
+Do not fumble with a woman's logic.
+%
+Does it joggle any bells?
+%
+Don't bite the hand that stabs you in the back.
+%
+Don't burn your bridges until you come to them.
+%
+Don't cash in your chips until the shill is down.
+%
+Don't cast a gander upon the water.
+%
+Don't cast any dispersions.
+%
+Don't cast doubts on troubled waters.
+%
+Don't count your chickens until the barn door is closed.
+%
+Don't criticize him for lack of inexperience.
+%
+Don't cut off the limb you've got your neck strung out on.
+%
+Don't do anything I wouldn't do standing up in a hammock.
+%
+Don't eat with your mouth full.
+%
+Don't get your eye out of joint.
+%
+Don't jump off the gun.
+%
+Don't jump off the handle.
+%
+Don't jump on a ship that's going down in flames.
+%
+Don't just stand there like a sitting duck.
+%
+Don't lead them down the garden path and cut them off at the knees.
+%
+Don't leave the nest that feeds you.
+%
+Don't let the camels get their feet in the door.
+%
+Don't look a gift horse in the face.
+%
+Don't look a mixed bag in the mouth.
+%
+Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
+%
+Don't look for a gift in the horse's mouth.
+%
+Don't make a molehill out of a can of beans.
+%
+Don't make a tempest out of a teapot.
+%
+Don't muddle the waters.
+%
+Don't pull a panic button.
+%
+Don't pull an enigma on me.
+%
+Don't put all you irons on the fire in one pot.
+%
+Don't rattle the boat.
+%
+Don't rock the boat that feeds you.
+%
+Don't roll up your nostrils at me.
+%
+Don't stick your oar in muddy waters.
+%
+Don't strike any bells while the fire is hot.
+%
+Don't talk to me with your clothes on.
+%
+Don't talk with your mouth open.
+%
+Don't throw the baby out with the dishwasher.
+%
+Don't throw the dog's blanket over the horse's nose.
+%
+Don't twiddle your knee-caps at me!
+%
+Don't upset the apple pie.
+%
+Dot your t's and cross your i's.
+%
+Drop the other foot, for Christ's sake!
+%
+Each of us sleazes by at our own pace.
+%
+Erase that indelibly from your memory.
+%
+Every cloud has a blue horizon.
+%
+Every rainbow has a silver lining.
+%
+Everything is going all bananas.
+%
+Everything is ipso facto.
+%
+Everything is mutually intertangled.
+%
+Everything's all ruffled over.
+%
+Fade out in a blaze of glory.
+%
+Feather your den with somebody else's nest.
+%
+Fellow alumni run thicker than water.
+%
+Fish or get off the pot!
+%
+Float off into several individual conferees.
+%
+For all intensive purposes, the act is over.
+%
+From here on up, it's down hill all the way.
+%
+Gander your eye at that!
+%
+Gee, it must have fallen into one of my cracks.
+%
+Get off the stick and do something.
+%
+Get the hot poop right off the vine.
+%
+Getting him to do anything is like pulling hen's teeth.
+%
+Give him a project to get his teeth wet on.
+%
+Give him a square shake.
+%
+Give him an inch and he'll screw you.
+%
+Give him enough rope and he will run away with it.
+%
+Go fly your little red wagon somewhere else.
+%
+Good grace is in the eye of the beholder.
+%
+Good riddance aforethought.
+%
+Half a loaf is better than two in the bush.
+%
+Half a worm is better than none.
+%
+Hands were made before feet.
+%
+Have it prepared under my signature.
+%
+Have more discretion in the face of valor.
+%
+Have the seeds we've sown fallen on deaf ears?
+%
+Have we been cast a strange eye at?
+%
+Have we gone too fast too far?
+%
+He  has  a  dire  need,  actually  it's  half-dire, but he thinks
+it's double-dire.
+%
+He  may  be  the  greatest  piece  of cheese that ever walked down
+the plank.
+%
+He and his group are two different people.
+%
+He came in on my own volition.
+%
+He can't hack the other can of worms.
+%
+He choked on his own craw.
+%
+He deserves a well-rounded hand of applause.
+%
+He didn't even bat an eyebrow.
+%
+He didn't flinch an eyelid.
+%
+He disappeared from nowhere.
+%
+He doesn't have the brain to rub two nickels together.
+%
+He doesn't know which side his head is buttered on.
+%
+He drinks like a sieve.
+%
+He flipped his cork.
+%
+He gave me a blanket check.
+%
+He got taken right through the nose.
+%
+He got up on his highheels.
+%
+He grates me the wrong way.
+%
+He has a marvelous way of extruding you.
+%
+He has a very weak indigestion.
+%
+He has a wool of steel.
+%
+He has feet of molasses.
+%
+He has his ass on the wrong end of his head.
+%
+He has his crutches around her throat.
+%
+He has his foot in the pie.
+%
+He has his neck out on a limb.
+%
+He has his pot in too many pies.
+%
+He has the character of navel lint.
+%
+He has the courage of a second-story man.
+%
+He hit the nose right on the head.
+%
+He is as dishonest as the day is long.
+%
+He just sat there like a bump on a wart.
+%
+He keeps his ear to the vine.
+%
+He knows which side his pocketbook is buttered on.
+%
+He knows which side of his bread his goose is buttered on.
+%
+He needs to get blown out of his water.
+%
+He popped out of nowhere like a jack-in-the-bean-box.
+%
+He pulled himself up on top of his own bootstraps.
+%
+He rammed it down their ears.
+%
+He reads memos with a fine tooth comb.
+%
+He rules with an iron thumb.
+%
+He said it thumb in cheek.
+%
+He should be gracious for small favors.
+%
+He smokes like a fish.
+%
+He wants to get his nose wet in several areas.
+%
+He was hoisted by a skyhook on his own petard!
+%
+He was hoisted by his own canard.
+%
+He was hung by his own bootstraps.
+%
+He was left out on the lurch.
+%
+He was putrified with fright.
+%
+He wears his finger on his sleeve.
+%
+He would forget his head if it weren't screwed up.
+%
+Heads are rolling in the aisles.
+%
+He'll get his neck in hot water.
+%
+He'll grease any palm that will pat his ass.
+%
+He's  tossing  symbols  around  like  a percussionist in a John
+Philip Sousa band.
+%
+He's a bulldog in a china shop.
+%
+He's a child progeny.
+%
+He's a fart off the old block.
+%
+He's a lion in a den of Daniels.
+%
+He's a little clog in a big wheel.
+%
+He's a shirking violet.
+%
+He's a wolf in sheep's underware.
+%
+He's a young peeksqueek.
+%
+He's as crazy as a bloody loon!
+%
+He's as crazy as a fruitcake.
+%
+He's as happy as a pig at high tide.
+%
+He's as quick as an eyelash.
+%
+He's bailing him out of the woods.
+%
+He's been living off his laurels for years.
+%
+He's being pruned for the job.
+%
+He's being shifted from shuttle to cock.
+%
+He's biting the shaft and getting the short end of the problem.
+%
+He's breathing down my throat.
+%
+He's casting a red herring on the face of the water.
+%
+He's clam bait.
+%
+He's cornered on all sides.
+%
+He's faster than the naked eye.
+%
+He's fuming at the seams.
+%
+He's going to fall flat on his feet.
+%
+He's got a rat's nest by the tail.
+%
+He's got a tough axe to hoe.
+%
+He's got four sheets in the wind.
+%
+He's got his intentions crossed.
+%
+He's got so much zap he can barely twitch.
+%
+He's king bee.
+%
+He's letting ground grow under his feet.
+%
+He's like a wine glass in a storm.
+%
+He's like sheep in a bullpen.
+%
+He's lying through his britches.
+%
+He's not breathing a muscle.
+%
+He's off in a cloud of ``hearty heigh-ho Silver''.
+%
+He's on the back of the pecking order.
+%
+He's one of the world's greatest flamingo dancers.
+%
+He's paying through the neck.
+%
+He's procrastinating like a bandit.
+%
+He's reached the crescent of his success.
+%
+He's restoring order to chaos.
+%
+He's running around like a bull with his head cut off.
+%
+He's running around like a chicken with his ass cut off.
+%
+He's running around with his chicken cut off.
+%
+He's running from gamut to gamut.
+%
+He's running off at the seams.
+%
+He's salivating at the chops.
+%
+He's seething at the teeth.
+%
+He's sharp as a whip.
+%
+He's singing a little off-keel.
+%
+He's so far above me I can't reach his bootstraps.
+%
+He's so mad he is spitting wooden nickels.
+%
+He's somewhere down wind of the innuendo.
+%
+He's spending a lot of brunt on the task.
+%
+He's splitting up at the seams.
+%
+He's the best programmer east of the Mason-Dixon line.
+%
+He's the king of queens.
+%
+He's the last straw on the camel's back to be called.
+%
+He's too smart for his own bootstraps.
+%
+He's up a creek with his paddles leaking.
+%
+He's within eyeshot of shore.
+%
+His eyeballs perked up.
+%
+His feet have come home to roost.
+%
+His foot is in his mouth up to his ear.
+%
+His head's too big for his britches.
+%
+His position is not commiserate with his abilities.
+%
+History is just a repetition of the past.
+%
+Hold your cool!
+%
+How old is your 2-year old?
+%
+I  speak  only  with  olive  branches  dripping from the corners
+of my mouth.
+%
+I accept it with both barrels.
+%
+I apologize on cringed knees.
+%
+I came within a hair's breathe of it.
+%
+I can do it with one eye tied behind me.
+%
+I can remember everything; I have a pornographic mind.
+%
+I can't hum a straight tune.
+%
+I case my ground very well before I jump into it.
+%
+I come to you on bended bootstrap.
+%
+I contributed to the charity of my cause.
+%
+I could count it on the fingers of one thumb.
+%
+I could tell you stories that would curdle your hair.
+%
+I did it sitting flat on my back.
+%
+I don't always play with a full house of cards.
+%
+I don't know which dagger to clothe it in.
+%
+I don't like the feel of this ball of wax.
+%
+I don't want to be the pie that upset the applecart.
+%
+I don't want to cast a pall on the water.
+%
+I don't want to start hurdling profanity.
+%
+I don't want to stick my hand in the mouth that's feeding me.
+%
+I don't want to throw a wrench in the ointment.
+%
+I enjoy his smiling continence.
+%
+I flew it by ear.
+%
+I got you by the nap of your neck.
+%
+I guess I'd better get my duff on the road.
+%
+I guess I'm putting all my birds in one pie.
+%
+I guess that muddled the waters.
+%
+I had her by the nap of the neck.
+%
+I had to make a split decision.
+%
+I had to scratch in the back recesses of my memory.
+%
+I had to throw in the white flag.
+%
+I have a green thumb up to my elbow.
+%
+I have a rot-gut feeling about that.
+%
+I have feedback on both sides of the coin.
+%
+I have my neck hung out on an open line.
+%
+I have no personal bones to grind about it.
+%
+I have people crawling out of my ears.
+%
+I have post-naval drip.
+%
+I have reasonably zero desire to do it.
+%
+I have the self-discipline of a mouse.
+%
+I have to get my guts up.
+%
+I have too many cooks in the pot already.
+%
+I haven't bitten off an easy nut.
+%
+I haven't gotten the knack down yet.
+%
+I hear the handwriting on the wall.
+%
+I heard it out of the corner of my eyes.
+%
+I just pulled those out of the seat of my pants.
+%
+I keep stubbing my shins.
+%
+I know what we have to do to get our feet off the ground.
+%
+I listen with a very critical eye.
+%
+I looked at it with some askance.
+%
+I march to a different kettle of fish.
+%
+I only hear half of what I believe.
+%
+I only hope your every wish is desired.
+%
+I only mentioned it to give you another side of the horse.
+%
+I only read it in snips and snabs.
+%
+I owe you a great gratitude of thanks.
+%
+I pulled my feet out from under my rug.
+%
+I put all my marbles in one basket.
+%
+I read the sign, but it went in one ear and out the other.
+%
+I resent the insinuendoes.
+%
+I rushed around like a chicken out of my head.
+%
+I said it beneath my breath.
+%
+I see several little worms raising their heads around the corner.
+%
+I think he's gone over the bend.
+%
+I think I've committed a fore paw.
+%
+I think that we are making an out-and-out molehill of this issue.
+%
+I think the real crux is the matter.
+%
+I thought I'd fall out of my gourd.
+%
+I want half a cake and eat it too.
+%
+I want to embark upon your qualms.
+%
+I want to get more fire into the iron.
+%
+I want to get to know them on a face-to-name basis.
+%
+I want to go into that at short length.
+%
+I want to see him get a good hands-on feel.
+%
+I was working my balls to the bone.
+%
+I wish somebody could drop the other foot.
+%
+I won't hang my laurels on it.
+%
+I won't kick a gift horse in the mouth.
+%
+I worked my toes to the bonenail.
+%
+I would imagine he chafes a bit.
+%
+I wouldn't give it to a wet dog.
+%
+I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.
+%
+I wouldn't take him on a ten foot pole.
+%
+I wouldn't want to be sitting in his shoes.
+%
+I'd better get my horse on it's ass.
+%
+I'd better jack up my bootstraps and get going.
+%
+I'd have been bent out of shape like spades.
+%
+I'd kill a dog to bite that man.
+%
+I'd like to intersperse a comment.
+%
+I'd like to put another foot into the pot.
+%
+I'd like to strike while the inclination is hot.
+%
+I'd rather be tight than right.
+%
+If  they  do that, they'll be committing suicide for the rest of
+their lives.
+%
+If  they had to stand on their own two feet, they would have gone
+down the drain a long time ago.
+%
+If  we  keep  going this way, somebody is going to be left standing
+at the church with his pants on.
+%
+If  you  don't  want  words  put in your mouth, don't leave it
+hanging open.
+%
+If anything, I bend over on the backwards side.
+%
+If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
+%
+If the onus fits, wear it.
+%
+If the shoe fits, put it in your mouth.
+%
+If the shoe is on the other foot, wear it.
+%
+If there's no fire, don't make waves.
+%
+If they do it there won't be a living orgasm left.
+%
+If you ask him he could wax very quickly on that subject.
+%
+If you listen in the right tone of voice, you'll hear what I mean.
+%
+If you see loose strings that have to be tied down that are not
+nailed up, see me about it.
+%
+If you want something bad enough, you have to pay the price.
+%
+If you want to be heard, go directly to the horse's ear.
+%
+If you want to get your jollies off, watch this!
+%
+If you'd let me, I'd forget the shirt off my back.
+%
+If you're going to break a chicken, you have to scramble a few eggs.
+%
+I'll be ready just in case a windfall comes down the pike.
+%
+I'll be there in the next foreseeable future.
+%
+I'll be there with spades one.
+%
+I'll bet there's one guy out in the woodwork.
+%
+I'll descend on them to the bone.
+%
+I'll fight him hand and nail.
+%
+I'll hit him right between the teeth.
+%
+I'll procrastinate when I get around to it.
+%
+I'll reek the benefits.
+%
+I'll see it when I believe it.
+%
+I'll stay away from that like a 10-foot pole.
+%
+I'll take a few pegs out of his sails.
+%
+I'll take any warm body in a storm.
+%
+I'm a mere fragment of my imagination.
+%
+I'm all ravelled up.
+%
+I'm basking in his shadow.
+%
+I'm burning my bridges out from under me!
+%
+I'm casting the dye on the face of the water.
+%
+I'm collapsing around the seams.
+%
+I'm creaking at the seams.
+%
+I'm creaming off the top of my head.
+%
+I'm deathly curious.
+%
+I'm flapping at the gills.
+%
+I'm going off tangentially.
+%
+I'm going right out of my bonker.
+%
+I'm going right over the bend.
+%
+I'm going to cast my rocks to the wind.
+%
+I'm going to down-peddle that aspect.
+%
+I'm going to feel it out by the ear.
+%
+I'm going to litigate it to the eyeballs.
+%
+I'm going to put a little variety in your spice of life.
+%
+I'm going to put my horn in.
+%
+I'm going to read between your lines.
+%
+I'm going to resolve it by ear.
+%
+I'm going to scatter them like chaff before the wind.
+%
+I'm going to scream right out of my gourd.
+%
+I'm going to take my vendetta out on them.
+%
+I'm going to take my venom out on you.
+%
+I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut.
+%
+I'm ground up to a high pitch.
+%
+I'm having a hard time getting my handles around that one.
+%
+I'm in my reclining years.
+%
+I'm in transit on that point.
+%
+I'm listening with baited ears.
+%
+I'm looking at it with a jaundiced ear.
+%
+I'm not going to bail him out of his own juice.
+%
+I'm not going to beat a dead horse to death.
+%
+I'm not going to get side tracked onto a tangent.
+%
+I'm not sure it's my bag of tea.
+%
+I'm not sure we're all speaking from the same sheet of music.
+%
+I'm not trying to grind anybody's axes.
+%
+I'm out of my bloomin' loon.
+%
+I'm over the hilt.
+%
+I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles.
+%
+I'm pulling something over on you.
+%
+I'm ready to go when the bell opens.
+%
+I'm running around like a one-armed paper bandit.
+%
+I'm signing my own death knell.
+%
+I'm sitting on the edge of my ice.
+%
+I'm smarting at the seams.
+%
+I'm soaked to the teeth.
+%
+I'm standing over your shoulder.
+%
+I'm sticking my neck out on a ledge.
+%
+I'm stone cold sane.
+%
+I'm talking up a dead alley.
+%
+I'm throwing those ideas to you off the top of my hat.
+%
+I'm too uptight for my own bootstraps.
+%
+I'm up a wrong alley.
+%
+I'm up against a blind wall.
+%
+I'm up to my earballs in garbage.
+%
+I'm walking on cloud nine.
+%
+I'm walking on thin water.
+%
+I'm weighted down with baited breath.
+%
+I'm willing to throw my two cents into the fire.
+%
+I'm working my blood up into a fervor.
+%
+I'm wound up like a cork.
+%
+I'm your frontface in this matter.
+%
+In one mouth and out the other.
+%
+In this period of time, its getting very short.
+%
+In this vein I will throw out another item for Pandora' box.
+%
+Indiscretion is the better part of valor.
+%
+Is he an Amazon!
+%
+Is there any place we can pull a chink out of the log jam?
+%
+It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed
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+%
+It cuts like a hot knife through solid rock.
+%
+It drove me to no wits end.
+%
+It fills a well-needed gap.
+%
+It floated right to the bottom.
+%
+It flows like water over the stream.
+%
+It gets grained into you.
+%
+It goes from one gamut to another.
+%
+It goes from tippy top to tippy bottom.
+%
+It goes in one era and out the other.
+%
+It goes out one ear and in the other.
+%
+It got left out in the lurch.
+%
+It has more punch to the unch.
+%
+It hit me to the core.
+%
+It hit the epitome of it.
+%
+It leaks like a fish.
+%
+It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while.
+%
+It looks real enough to be artificial.
+%
+It may seem incredulous, but it's true.
+%
+It might break the straw that holds the camel's back.
+%
+It might have been a figment of my illusion.
+%
+It' not an easy thing to get your teeth around.
+%
+It rolls off her back like a duck.
+%
+It runs the full width of the totem pole.
+%
+It sounds like roses to my ears.
+%
+It sure hits the people between the head.
+%
+It was a heart-rendering decision.
+%
+It was a maelstrom around his neck.
+%
+It was deja vu all over again.
+%
+It was oozing right out of the lurches.
+%
+It was really amazing to see the spectra of people there.
+%
+It went through the palm of my shoe.
+%
+It will spurn a lot of furious action.
+%
+It will take a while to ravel down.
+%
+It's like asking a man to stop eating in the middle of a starvation diet.
+%
+It's a Byzantine thicket of quicksand.
+%
+It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing.
+%
+It's a fiat accompli.
+%
+It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing.
+%
+It's a hairy banana.
+%
+It's a hairy can of worms.
+%
+It's a home of contention.
+%
+It's a lot like recumbent DNA.
+%
+It's a lot of passed water under the bridge.
+%
+It's a mare's nest in sheep's clothing.
+%
+It's a mecca of people.
+%
+It's a monkey wrench in your ointment.
+%
+It's a new high in lows.
+%
+It's a road of hard knocks.
+%
+It's a sight for sore ears.
+%
+It's a slap in the chaps.
+%
+It's a tempest in a teacup.
+%
+It's a terrible crutch to bear.
+%
+It's a tough nut to hoe.
+%
+It's a tough road to haul.
+%
+It's a travesty to the human spirit.
+%
+It's a typical case of alligator mouth and hummingbird ass.
+%
+It's a useful ace in the pocket.
+%
+It's a white elephant around my neck.
+%
+It's a white herring.
+%
+It's about 15 feet as the eye flies.
+%
+It's about as satisfactory as falling off a log.
+%
+It's all above and beyond board.
+%
+It's all in knowing when to let a dead horse die.
+%
+It's all water under the dam.
+%
+It's always better to be safe than have your neck out on a limb.
+%
+It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody.
+%
+It's another millstone in the millpond of life.
+%
+It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
+%
+It's as flat as a door knob.
+%
+It's as predictable as cherry pie.
+%
+It's bouncing like a greased pig.
+%
+It's burned to shreds.
+%
+Its coming down like buckets outside.
+%
+It's crumbling at the seams.
+%
+It's enough to make you want to rot your socks.
+%
+It's going to bog everybody up.
+%
+It's going to fall on its ass from within.
+%
+It's got all the bugs and whistles.
+%
+It's hanging out like a sore tongue.
+%
+It's like a greased pig in a wet blanket.
+%
+It's like a knife through hot butter.
+%
+It's like a raft on roller skates.
+%
+It's like harnessing a hare to a tortoise.
+%
+It's like pulling hen's teeth.
+%
+It's like talking to a needle in a haystack.
+%
+It's like the flood of the Hesperis.
+%
+It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel.
+%
+It's like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
+%
+It's more than the mind can boggle.
+%
+It's music to your eyes.
+%
+It's no chip off my clock.
+%
+It's no skin off my stiff upper lip.
+%
+It's no sweat off my nose.
+%
+It's not an easy thing to get your teeth wet on.
+%
+It's not completely an unblessed advantage.
+%
+It's not his bag of tea.
+%
+It's not my cup of pie.
+%
+It's not my Diet of Worms.
+%
+It's not really hide nor hair.
+%
+It's one more cog in the wheel.
+%
+It's perfect, but it will have to do.
+%
+It's raining like a bandit.
+%
+It's right on the tip of my head.
+%
+It's sloppy mismanagement.
+%
+It's so unbelievable you wouldn't believe it.
+%
+It's something you're all dying to wait for.
+%
+It's the blind leading the deaf.
+%
+It's the greatest little seaport in town.
+%
+It's the old chicken-in-the-egg problem.
+%
+It's the old Paul Revere bit . . . one if by two and two if by one.
+%
+It's the other end of the kettle of fish.
+%
+It's the straw that broke the ice.
+%
+It's the the highest of the lows.
+%
+It's the vilest smell I ever heard.
+%
+It's time to take off our gloves and talk from the heart.
+%
+It's under closed doors.
+%
+It's within the pall of reason.
+%
+It's wrought with problems.
+%
+It's your ball of wax, you unravel it.
+%
+I've been burning the midnight hours.
+%
+I've built enough fudge into that factor.
+%
+I've got applicants up to the ears.
+%
+I've got to put my duff to the grindstone.
+%
+I've had it up to the hilt.
+%
+I've had more girls than you've got hair between your teeth.
+%
+I've milked that dead end for all it's worth.
+%
+I've worked my shins to the bone.
+%
+Judas Proust!
+%
+Just because it's there, you don't have to mount it.
+%
+Just cut a thin slither of it.
+%
+Just remember that, and then forget it.
+%
+Keep the water as firm as possible until a fellow has his feet on the ground.
+%
+Keep this under your vest.
+%
+Keep your ear peeled!
+%
+Keep your eyes geared to the situation.
+%
+Keep your nose to the mark.
+%
+Keep your nose to the plow.
+%
+Lay a bugaboo to rest.
+%
+Let he who casts the first stone cast it in concrete.
+%
+Let him be rent from limb to limb.
+%
+Let him fry in his own juice.
+%
+Let it slip between the cracks.
+%
+Let me clarify my fumbling.
+%
+Let me feast your ears.
+%
+Let me flame your fan.
+%
+Let me say a word before I throw in the reins.
+%
+Let me take you under my thumb.
+%
+Let me throw a monkey into the wrench.
+%
+Let me throw a monkey wrench in the ointment.
+%
+Let sleeping uncertainties lie.
+%
+Let them fry in their socks.
+%
+Let them hang in their own juice.
+%
+Let's bend a few lapels.
+%
+Let's get down to brass facts.
+%
+Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.
+%
+Let's grab the initiative by the horns.
+%
+Let's kick the bucket with a certain amount of daintiness.
+%
+Let's kill two dogs with one bone.
+%
+Let's look at it from the other side of the view.
+%
+Let's lurch into the next hour of the show.
+%
+Let's not drag any more dead herrings across the garden path.
+%
+Let's not get ahead of the bandwagon.
+%
+Let's not hurdle into too many puddles at once.
+%
+Let's not open the skeleton in that closet.
+%
+Let's play the other side of the coin.
+%
+Let's put out a smeller.
+%
+Let's raise our horizons.
+%
+Let's roll up our elbows and get to work.
+%
+Let's set up a straw vote and knock it down.
+%
+Let's shoot holes at it.
+%
+Let's skin another can of worms.
+%
+Let's solve two problems with one bird.
+%
+Let's strike the fire before the iron gets hot.
+%
+Let's talk to the horse's mouth.
+%
+Let's wreck havoc!
+%
+Like the shoemaker's children, we have computers running out of our ears.
+%
+Look at the camera and say `bird'.
+%
+Look before you turn the other cheek.
+%
+Man cannot eat by bread alone.
+%
+May I inveigle on you?
+%
+Men, women, and children first!
+%
+Mind your own petard!
+%
+My antipathy runneth over.
+%
+My chicken house has come home to roost.
+%
+My dog was pent up all day.
+%
+My ebb is running low.
+%
+My foot is going out of its mind.
+%
+My head is twice its size.
+%
+My mind is a vacuum of information.
+%
+My mind slipped into another cog.
+%
+My mind went blank and I had to wait until the dust cleared.
+%
+My off-the-head reaction is negative.
+%
+My steam is wearing down.
+%
+My stomach gets all knotted up in rocks.
+%
+My train of thought went out to lunch.
+%
+Necessity is the invention of strange bedfellows.
+%
+Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
+%
+Never feed a hungry dog an empty loaf of bread.
+%
+Never the twixt should change.
+%
+No Californian will walk a mile if possible.
+%
+No crumbs gather under his feet.
+%
+No dust grows under her feet.
+%
+No loaf is better than half a loaf at all.
+%
+No moss grows on his stone.
+%
+No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls.
+%
+No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
+%
+No rocks grow on Charlie.
+%
+No sooner said, the better.
+%
+Nobody could fill his socks.
+%
+Nobody is going to give you the world in a saucer.
+%
+Nobody marches with the same drummer.
+%
+Nobody's going to put his neck out on a limb.
+%
+Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
+%
+Not all the irons in the fire will bear fruit or even come home to roost.
+%
+Not by the foggiest stretch of the imagination!
+%
+Not in a cocked hat, you don't!
+%
+Not in a pig's bladder you don't!
+%
+Not me, I didn't open my peep.
+%
+Not on your bootstraps!
+%
+Now he's sweating in his own pool.
+%
+Now the laugh is on the other foot!
+%
+Now we have some chance to cut new water.
+%
+One back scratches another.
+%
+One doesn't swallow the whole cake at the first sitting.
+%
+One man's curiosity is another man's Pandora's box.
+%
+Our backs are up the wall.
+%
+Our deal fell through the boards.
+%
+Peanut butter jelly go together hand over fist.
+%
+People in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black.
+%
+Picasso wasn't born in a day.
+%
+Pick them up from their bootstraps.
+%
+Pictures speak louder than words.
+%
+Please come here ipso pronto.
+%
+Pour sand on troubled waters.
+%
+Put all your money where your marbles are.
+%
+Put it in a guinea sack.
+%
+Put it on the back of the stove and let it simper.
+%
+Put that in your pocket and smoke it!
+%
+Put the onus on the other foot.
+%
+Put your mouth where your money is.
+%
+Right off the top of my cuff, I don' know what to say.
+%
+Right off the top of my hand, I'd say no.
+%
+Roll out the Ouija ball.
+%
+Rome wasn't built on good intentions alone.
+%
+Row, row, row your boat, gently down the drain.
+%
+See the forest through the trees.
+%
+She had a missed conception.
+%
+She had an aurora of goodness about her.
+%
+She has eyes like two holes in a burnt blanket.
+%
+She hit the nail on the nose.
+%
+She looks like she's been dead for several years, lately.
+%
+She makes Raquel Welch look like Twiggy standing backwards.
+%
+She stepped full-face on it.
+%
+She was sitting there with an insidious look on her face.
+%
+She'll fight it tooth and toenail.
+%
+She's a virgin who has never been defoliated.
+%
+She's flying off the deep end.
+%
+She's got a bee in her bonnet and just won't let it go.
+%
+She's melting out punishment.
+%
+She's steel wool and a yard wide.
+%
+She's trying to feather her own bush.
+%
+Shoot it up the flag pole.
+%
+Somebody is going to have to take a forefront here.
+%
+Somebody pushed the panic nerve.
+%
+Somebody's flubbing his dub.
+%
+Someone is going to be left in the church with his pants on.
+%
+Sometimes I don't have both sails in the water.
+%
+Speaking off the hand, I'd advise you to quit.
+%
+Straighten up or fly right.
+%
+Strange bedfellows flock together.
+%
+Take care of two stones with one bird.
+%
+Take it with a block of salt.
+%
+That aspect permutes the whole situation.
+%
+That curdles my toes.
+%
+That curdles the milk of human kindness.
+%
+That didn't amount to a hill of worms.
+%
+That doesn't cut any weight with him.
+%
+That job is at the bottom of the rung.
+%
+That makes me as mad as a wet hatter.
+%
+That opens up a whole other kettle of songs.
+%
+That problem is getting pushed into the horizon.
+%
+That puts me up a worse creek.
+%
+That really uprooted the apple cart.
+%
+That restaurant is so crowded no one goes there anymore.
+%
+That solves two stones with one bird.
+%
+That was a mere peanut in the bucket.
+%
+That was almost half done unconsciously.
+%
+That was like getting the horse before the barn.
+%
+That was the corker in the bottle.
+%
+That was the pan he was flashed in.
+%
+That would drive him right out of his banana.
+%
+That would have been right up Harry's meat.
+%
+That'll take the steam out of their sails.
+%
+That's a ball of another wax.
+%
+That's a bird of a different color.
+%
+That's a camel's eye strained through a gnat's tooth.
+%
+That's a different jar of worms.
+%
+That's a horse of a different feather.
+%
+That's a matter for sore eyes.
+%
+That's a measle-worded statement if I ever heard one.
+%
+That's a sight for deaf ears.
+%
+That's a tough nut to carry on your back.
+%
+That's a two-edged circle.
+%
+That's a whole new ballpark.
+%
+That's an unexpected surprise.
+%
+That's getting to the crotch of the matter.
+%
+That's just putting the gravy on the cake.
+%
+That's no sweat off my back.
+%
+That's not my sack of worms.
+%
+That's obviously a very different cup of fish.
+%
+That's pushing a dead horse.
+%
+That's the other end of the coin.
+%
+That's the straw that broke the camel's hump.
+%
+That's the wart that sank the camel's back.
+%
+That's the way the old ball game bounces.
+%
+That's the whole ball of snakes.
+%
+That's the whole kettle of fish in a nutshell.
+%
+That's the whole kit and caboose.
+%
+That's their applecart, let them choke on it.
+%
+That's water under the dam.
+%
+That's way down in the chicken feed.
+%
+That's when I first opened an eyelash.
+%
+That's worse than running chalk up and down your back.
+%
+The grass is always greener when you can't see the forest for the trees.
+%
+The aggressor is on the wrong foot.
+%
+The analogy is a deeply superficial one.
+%
+The atmosphere militates against a solution.
+%
+The ball is in our lap.
+%
+The die has been cast on the face of the waters.
+%
+The early bird will find his can of worms.
+%
+The early worm catches the fish.
+%
+The eggs we put all in one basket have come home to roost.
+%
+The faculty has cast a jaundiced eye upon the waters.
+%
+The fervor is so deep you can taste it.
+%
+The foot that rocks the cradle is usually in the mouth.
+%
+The fruits of our labors are about to be felt.
+%
+The future is not what it used to be.
+%
+The gremlins have gone off to roost on someone else's canard.
+%
+The grocer's son always has shoes.
+%
+The groundwork is thoroughly broken.
+%
+The hand is on the wall.
+%
+The horse is stolen before the barn even gets its door closed.
+%
+The idea did cross my head.
+%
+The ideas sprang full-blown from the hydra's heads.
+%
+The initiative is on the wrong foot.
+%
+The lights are so bright the air is opaque.
+%
+The meeting was a first-class riot squad.
+%
+The onus is on the other foot.
+%
+The pipeline has ramped up.
+%
+The restaurants are terrible; the town is completely indigestible.
+%
+The sink is shipping.
+%
+The up-kick of all that will be nothing.
+%
+The viewpoints run from hot to cold.
+%
+The whole thing is a hairy potpourri.
+%
+The wishbone's connected to the kneebone.
+%
+Their attitude is to let lying dogs sleep.
+%
+There are enough cooks in the pot already.
+%
+There are too many cooks and not enough Indians.
+%
+There are two sides to every marshmallow.
+%
+There hasn't been much of a peep about it.
+%
+There is a prolifery of new ideas.
+%
+There is no surefool way of proceeding.
+%
+There is one niche in his armor.
+%
+There is some milk of contention between us.
+%
+There was danger lurking under the tip of an iceberg.
+%
+There were foot-high puddles.
+%
+There will be fangs flying.
+%
+There's a dark cloud on every rainbow's horizon.
+%
+There's a flaw in the ointment.
+%
+There's a little life in the old shoe yet.
+%
+There's a lot of blanche here to carte.
+%
+There's a lot of bull in the china shop.
+%
+There's a lot of credibility in that gap!
+%
+There's a strong over current here.
+%
+There's a vortex swimming around out there.
+%
+There's going to be hell and high water to pay.
+%
+There's laughing on the outside, panelling on the inside.
+%
+There's more than one way to skin an egg without letting the goose
+out of the bag.
+%
+There's no place in the bowl for another spoon to stir the broth.
+%
+There's no two ways around it.
+%
+There's nothing like stealing the barn door after the horse is gone.
+%
+There's some noise afoot about the problem.
+%
+There's some trash to be separated from the chaff.
+%
+They are straining at nits.
+%
+They are unscrupulously honest.
+%
+They are very far and few between.
+%
+They closed the doors after the barn was stolen.
+%
+They descended on me like a hoar of locust.
+%
+They don't like to dictate themselves to the problem.
+%
+They don't see eye for eye with us.
+%
+They don't stand a tea bag's chance in hell.
+%
+They fell all over their faces.
+%
+They just want to chew the bull.
+%
+They just want to shoot the fat.
+%
+They locked the door after the house was stolen.
+%
+They make strange bedfellows together.
+%
+They rolled their eyebrows at me.
+%
+They run across the gamut.
+%
+They sucked all the cream off the crop.
+%
+They sure dipsied his doodle.
+%
+They unspaded some real down to earth data.
+%
+They went after him tooth and fang.
+%
+They wrecked havoc in the kitchen.
+%
+They'll carve that spectrum any way we desire it.
+%
+They're atrophying on the vine.
+%
+They're colder than blue blazes.
+%
+They're coming farther between.
+%
+They're dropping his course like flies.
+%
+They're dying off like fleas.
+%
+They're eating out of our laps.
+%
+They're germs in the rough.
+%
+They're grasping for needles.
+%
+They're spreading like wild flowers.
+%
+They're very far and few between.
+%
+They're working their bones off.
+%
+They's chomping their lips at the prospect.
+%
+They've beaten the bushes to death.
+%
+They've got the bull by the tail now.
+%
+They've reached a new level of lowness.
+%
+Things are all up in a heaval.
+%
+Things have slowed down to a terrible halt.
+%
+Things keep falling out of it, three or four years at a time.
+%
+This field of research is so virginal that no human eye has set foot on it.
+%
+This program has many weaknesses, but its strongest weakness remains to be seen.
+%
+This bit of casting oil on troubled feathers is more than I can take.
+%
+This ivory tower we're living in is a glass house.
+%
+This office requires a president who will work right up to the hilt.
+%
+This thing kills me to the bone.
+%
+This wine came from a really great brewery.
+%
+This work was the understatement of the year.
+%
+Those are good practices to avoid.
+%
+Those guys are as independent as hogs on ice.
+%
+Those guys weld a lot of power.
+%
+Those people have no bones to grind.
+%
+Those words were very carefully weaseled.
+%
+Time and tide strike but once.
+%
+To be a leader, you have to develop a spear de corps.
+%
+To coin a cliche, let's have at them.
+%
+To sweeten the pie, I'll add some cash.
+%
+To the cook goes the broth!
+%
+Together again for the first time.
+%
+Too many chiefs spoil the soup.
+%
+Too many drinks spoil the broth.
+%
+Too many hands spoil the soap.
+%
+Trying to do anything is like a tour de force.
+%
+Trying to get a doctor on Wednesday is like trying to shoot a horse on Sunday.
+%
+Watch her, she gets on the stick very quickly.
+%
+We are on equally unfooted ground.
+%
+We are paying for the sins of serenity.
+%
+We brought this can of worms into the open.
+%
+We can clean ourselves right up to date.
+%
+We can throw a lot of muscle into the pot.
+%
+We can't get through the forest for the trees.
+%
+We didn't know which facts were incorrect.
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+We don't want to get enhangled in that either.
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+We got another thing out of it that I want to heave in.
+%
+We got on board at ground zero.
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+We got the story post hoc.
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+We have a difference of agreement.
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+We have a real ball of wax to unravel.
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+We have a real messy ball of wax.
+%
+We have a wide range of broad-gauge people.
+%
+We have achieved a wide specter of support.
+%
+We threw everything in the kitchen sink at them.
+%
+We're getting down to bare tacks.
+%
+What can we do to shore up these problems?
+%
+When the tough get going they let sleeping dogs lie.
+%
+When they go downstairs, you can hear neither hide nor hair of them.
+%
+When you're jumping on sacred cows, you've got to watch your step.
+%
+You can make a prima donna sing, but you can't make her dance.
+%
+You get more for your mileage that way.
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+You gotta strike while the shoe is hot or the iron may be on the other foot.
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+You have sowed a festering cowpie of suspicion.
+%
+You put all your eggs before the horse.
+%
+You really can't compare us -- our similarities are different.
+%
+Your wild oats have come home to roost.
+%
+You're blowing it all out of context.
+%
+You've always been the bone of human kindness.
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