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a stitch in time saves nine?
Saves nine wot? I'm gonna look that one up. Tomorrow. So tired I'm almost falling out of me chair. |
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You are as cool as a cucumber ...
Cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen... Stop pulling the wool over my eyes... Stop being a pig by hogging all the food... What goes up must come down.. I can only trust her as far as I can throw her(?) |
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Loose lips sink ships
Too many cooks in the kitchen Everybody wants a piece of the pie (or action) Cooking the books Sung like a canary Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Penny for your thoughts When pigs fly Loose as a goose Don't make a mountain out of a mole hill I talked myself blue in the face. I am green with envy He/she was green around the gills (sick) He/she is true blue I was red in the face I am feeling in the pink He/she is under the weather He/she was white as a sheet I am feeling blue I am feeling down in the mouth Screaming like a banshee Mad as a hatter It is the best thing since sliced bread Hungry as a bear (or horse) So hungry I could eat a horse It takes two to tango Two's company and three is a crowd I will there in a jiffy It is always darkest before the dawn They are tried and true I wish I was a fly on the wall If walls could talk People are the same, where ever you go Putting on your Sunday best Proud as a peacock Happy as a rooster in a hen house. Don't let the cat out of the bag Silly as a goose . When in Rome, do as the romans In the blink of an eye Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite You made your bed, now lie in it. Mean as a junkyard dog Sweet as pie Happy as a lark He/she lies like a rug If you have seen one, you have seen them all There is a light at the end of the tunnel Darkness has it's depth Monkey see, monkey do Ten, will get you twenty He/she doesn't have a lick of sense He/she is poorer than a church mouse Quiet as a mouse I am sick as a dog He is a snake in the grass If he had half a brain he'd be dangerous Now I have seen everything Early bird catches the worm Don't rock the boat Don't spit in the wind Don't make waves You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink They are over the moon (In love) It takes sparks to light a fire The taxman cometh Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's Your goose is cooked * That was exausting  *
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"It turned up missing" got me going when I first heard it as a child of six.
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"It turned up missing" got me going when I first heard it as a child of six. OMG! Yes! 
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows 
Especially for English majors. Was "two" referring back to the bird, or the hand? no it doesnt. the bird in the hand is already yours. it doesnt really refer that you have it in hand, but very likely that you will get it with no difficulties. the 2 birds in the bushes may be more tempting as they are more in number, but the bushes there mean difficulties and obstacles, and that those 2 birds are difficult to get, low chance. so what it means exactly is: do not be greedy. and do not take the risks stupidly. know to go after what is more guaranteed. |
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a bird there is of course an item or a target etc. symbolized.
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
" killing two birds with one stone.." I think will raise not only eyebrows...but tempers too...lol.. of course no one is killing the birds lol |
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