| To fit like a glove |
| To flog a dead horse |
| To get out of bed on the wrong side |
| To give a lark to catch a kite |
| To go for wool and come home shorn |
| To go through fire and water (through thick and thin) |
| To have a finger in the pie |
| To have rats in the attic |
| To hit the nail on the head |
| To kick against the pricks |
| To kill two birds with one stone |
| To know everything is to know nothing |
| To know on which side one's bread is buttered |
| To know what's what |
| To lay by for a rainy day |
| To live from hand to mouth |
| To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen |
| To look for a needle in a haystack |
| To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water |
| To make (to turn) the air blue |
| To make a mountain out of a molehill |
| To make both ends meet |
| To make the cup run over |
| To measure another man's foot by one's own last |
| To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel |
| To pay one back in one's own coin |
| To plough the sand |
| To pour water into a sieve |
| To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody |
| To pull the devil by the tail |
| To put (set) the cart before the horse |
| To put a spoke in somebody's wheel |
| To put off till Doomsday |
| To rob one's belly to cover one's back |
| To roll in money |
| To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds |
| To save one's bacon |
| To send (carry) owls to Athens |
| To set the wolf to keep the sheep |
| To stick to somebody like a leech |
