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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 +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 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. +% |