| Time and tide wait for no man |
| Time cures all things |
| Time is money |
| Time is the great healer |
| Time works wonders |
| To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames) |
| To angle with a silver hook |
| To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth |
| To be head over ears in debt |
| To be in one's birthday suit |
| To be up to the ears in love |
| To be wise behind the hand |
| To beat about the bush |
| To beat the air |
| To bring grist to somebody's mill |
| To build a fire under oneself |
| To buy a pig in a poke |
| To call a spade a spade |
| To call off the dogs |
| To carry coals to Newcastle |
| To cast pearls before swine |
| To cast prudence to the winds |
| To come away none the wiser |
| To come off cheap |
| To come off with a whole skin |
| To come off with flying colours |
| To come out dry |
| To come out with clean hands |
| To cook a hare before catching him |
| To cry with one eye and laugh with the other |
| To cut one's throat with a feather |
| To draw (pull) in one's horns |
| To draw water in a sieve |
| To drop a bucket into an empty well |
| To eat the calf in the cow's belly |
| To err is human |
| To fiddle while Rome is burning |
| To fight with one's own shadow |
| To find a mare's nest |
| To fish in troubled waters |