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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 its 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 -at all. -% -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 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. -% -We don't want to get enhangled in that either. -% -We got another thing out of it that I want to heave in. -% -We got on board at ground zero. -% -We got the story post hoc. -% -We have a difference of agreement. -% -We have a real ball of wax to unravel. -% -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. -% -You gotta strike while the shoe is hot or the iron may be on the other foot. -% -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. |