OT: Idioms

[AmeriConn]

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Hold your horses

Burning the midnight oil

Close, but no cigar

A red headed step child

Once bitten, twice shy

 

[CTtoSanDiego]

Easy come, easy go
In for a penny, in for a pound
A hair's breadth
Better late than never

 

[MooseJaw]

Hair of the dog
better safe than sorry

 

[Bigboote]

As sharp as the leading edge of a basketball

Useless as (teats) on a boar hog

One cat short of crazy

 

[jcoton56]

An exercise in fertility

 

[Brewski]

An exercise in fertility

Futility?

 

[jcoton56]

Futility?

If you prefer

 

[CL82]

Killed two birds with one stone
Change of heart
Cold feet

 

[CL82]

If you prefer

Because an exercise in fertility seems like it would be anything but futile.

 

[dcdon]

The whole nine yards.

 

[Bigboote]

An exercise in fertility

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

 

[DennieEddy]

Can't dance, too wet to plow!

 

[Kaizen]

Common,
You know,
Really?
My Gods,

 

[azfan]

All hat and no cattle.

Example

The million dollar coach in Phoenix is all hat and no cattle

 

[CTtoSanDiego]

slime ball
easy peasy
dirt bag
tough as nails
sharp as a tack

 

[Hoops66]

You can't win 'em all. (except at UConn)
You said a mouthful.
Waste of breath.
Square peg in a round hole.
Moral victory.

 

[geordi]

The wheel is still spinning, but the hamster is dead!

 

[Hoops66]

With flying colors.
Follow your nose.
At first blush.
Lean and hungry look.
Chance of a snowball in hell.

 

[AmeriConn]

Like two peas in a pod

Make hay while the sun shines

Bite the bullet

Call it a day

Beat around the bush

 

[huskeynut]

Colder than a witch's teet
It's a 3 dog night
What goes around, comes around

 

[Monte]

It is what it is!

 

[dcdon]

I was born at night, but not last night.

 

[twiceahusky]

- Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a monkey (great Naval expression - can never get my son to say it in class).

- can’t hold a candle to him (not good enough to be his apprentice)

- can of corn (great baseball saying, great backstory)

- the heat of the dog will melt the cheese

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[Storrsbred]

Beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Does a chicken have lips
Is the Pope Catholic
Never overestimate the intelligence of your opponent
Never spit into the wind
Never p**s into the wind
Does a bear ---- in the woods

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Dumb as a doorknob
Not the brightest bulb in the box
Two sandwiches short of a picnic
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Has this one entered the lexicon, I use it all the time: Be the ball Danny.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades!

 

[ShmiCO]

Variety is the spice of life.

I learned so much from this one. When my mom first said this to me I thought she was talking about food.😃 (I was a small child at the time.) But she meant people. She'd bring me along when she helped disabled and elderly folks When I'd ask my mom about age, disability and all the other differences I noticed, she'd say "variety is the spice of life." The deaf women teaching me signs in the back seat on the way to appointments, the blind man who showed me how he navigated around his home. It changed people's differences from scary to interesting.

 

[Boreifs]

Ich habe die Nase voll
Alles hat ein Ende; nur die Wurst hat zwei