Idiom Suggestions

Here’s my list of accumulating idioms…

Please comment and add idioms you would like to see! Please include the context you heard it in as well.

• I don’t have a silver bullet answer for it
• …and call it Florida
• On the straight and narrow
• Lil bit of saffron
• Run him out on a rail
• Kansas city shuffle
• It’s like grenades and horseshoes, you just gotta get close
• You should see the Christmas tree we built last year
• 6 of 1, ½ a dozen of another
• Backs against the wall
• Can’t eat the whole elephant in one bite
• It’s like shooting fish in a barrel
• Need to know who’s who in the zoo
• Beat it like a rented mule
• Put the moose on the table
• I’m going to fight this tooth and nail
• It’s close enough for jazz
• Call uncle
• Easy Peazy lemon squeezy
• Time to pay the piper
• Fall off the turnip truck
• Single Shingle
• Bigger than a bread basket / box
• In the sausage factory with the client
• Another way to skin the cat is…
• March to your fiddle / drum
• Mother Hen
• Tongue and cheek
• Everything but the kitchen sink
• It takes a village to raise a child
• Holds no water to yours
• don’t hold a candle to him
• Left handed compliment
• Rubber hits the road
• Pass with flying colors
• Pie in the sky
• Get your hands dirty
• Creature comfort
• You can only lead a horse to water
• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
• Sleep on it
• Fly by the seat of your pants
• What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China?
• The whole 9 yards
• We’re the 800 lb. Gorilla
• We don’t want to be ‘nervous Nellies’
• Up the daisy chain
• Polish the pig
• Same ball of wax
• House of cards