Idioms,

**cuddlepop** · 10-Apr-06, 09:15

Trying to collect as many of as these as we can;do you Know any?
There are many we use every day which are easy to spot;as like two peas in a pod.pull your socks up and pull yourself together.
Its the more unused ones that we.re having problems with.
As Black as the Earl of Haig,s Waistcoat.
Meeting yourself in the middle
Go on rack your brains for us please.

**newpark** · 10-Apr-06, 09:28

A fool and his money are soon parted
Above Board
All Fingers and Thumbs
Always a bridesmaid never a bride
Rake over old coals
Red letter day
Hanged for a sheep as a lamb
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

I have loads

**newpark** · 10-Apr-06, 09:32

Black as Newgates's knocker

**cuddlepop** · 10-Apr-06, 09:33

Keep going the more we have then the easier its going to be to ask everyone to use it as a dictionary.

**newpark** · 10-Apr-06, 09:40

Wolf in Sheeps clothing
Vicar of Bray
There are many way to skin a cat
Those who live by the sword die by the sword
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water
Juggling Frogs
Jockey for position

**golach** · 10-Apr-06, 09:50

Adams ale
all above board
full of beans
beauty sleep
in black and white
know which side your breads buttered
not worth a candle
cap in hand
she's no chicken
haul over the coals
the sword of Damocles
feather in ones cap

**moose and Lindsay** · 10-Apr-06, 10:31

Out of the frying pan into the fire

beauty is in the eye of the be-holder

DW · 10-Apr-06, 10:36

If at first you don't succeed, use the boot and then the heid.

**cuddlepop** · 10-Apr-06, 10:51

You nick that one fae Glasgae....Dw.
Fancy a square go?

**buggyracer** · 10-Apr-06, 10:57

its a long road with no turns in it

grabbing the penny before the pound

whats in the cats, in the kitten

**bigjjuk** · 10-Apr-06, 11:28

dont beat about the bush
to many cooks spoil the broth

**pultneytooner** · 10-Apr-06, 11:34

It Tak's a lang spoon tae sup wi' a fifer
mony a mickle mak's a muckle
kick the bucket
shuffle of this mortal coil
better the devil you know
sent to coventry
no spring chicken
hard as nails
bold as brass
cool as a cucumber
so laid back you're horizontal
back to the drawing board
black as the sloe
too many cooks spoil the broth

DW · 10-Apr-06, 11:51

Originally Posted by cuddlepop

You nick that one fae Glasgae....Dw.
Fancy a square go?

I did spend a few years in that fair city in the late 60s early 70s.

**Lavenderblue2** · 10-Apr-06, 13:52

New brooms sweep clean.

Out on a limb.

See how the land lies.

Kick over the traces.

The sword of Damocles.

Burning the candle at both ends.

No spring chicken. (that's me!)

Many's a good tune is played on an old fiddle. (I had to follow with that!)

Cloud cuckoo land.

The hair of the dog.

Act of God.

LB

**Lavenderblue2** · 10-Apr-06, 13:55

Sorry, I seem to have duplicated some of your previous entries.

**coastown** · 10-Apr-06, 14:13

break a leg by the skin of one"s teeth as easy as pie easy does it go with the flow jump the gun .

**Julia** · 10-Apr-06, 14:27

mutton dressed as lamb
in for a penny, in for a pound
six and two threes
pyrrhic victory (the victor has to try so hard to win it isn't worth winning)
against the grain
absence makes the heart grow fonder
piece of cake
kiss of death
give your eye teeth
talk the hind legs of a donkey

and my all time favourite
face like a burst duf