All Phrases With Their Variants (420 Total)

Letters A - I (168 phrases)

A

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Two in the bush

A cat on a hot tin roof

A chip off the old block

A chip on your shoulder

Chip on the shoulder

A drop in the bucket

A feather in your cap

A fly in the ointment

In the ointment

A leopard can't change its spots

Can't change spots

A needle in a haystack

A rolling stone gathers no moss

A stitch in time saves nine

A stone's throw

A watched pot never boils

Pot never boils

A wolf in sheep's clothing

Above the board

All that glitters is not gold

Glitters not gold

B

Back to square one

Bark is worse than their bite

Worse than bite

Bark up the wrong tree

Barking up the wrong tree

Up the wrong tree

Batten down the hatches

Batten the hatches

Down the hatches

Beat a dead horse

Beat around the bush

Beat the bushes

Bite off more than you can chew

Bite more than you can chew

More than you can chew

Bite the bullet

Bite your tongue

Bite the tongue

Blow hot and cold

Blow the cobwebs away

Blow your own horn

Blow your own trumpet

Burn the candle at both ends

Candle both ends

Burn the midnight oil

Burn your bridges

Burn the bridges

C

Cat got your tongue?

Caught between a rock and a hard place

Between rock and hard

Rock and hard place

Caught flat-footed

Caught in the act

Caught in the crossfire

In the crossfire

Caught in the crosshairs

Caught on the back foot

Caught on the hop

Caught red-handed

Caught with chaff

Caught with egg on your face

Caught with your hand in the cookie jar

Caught with your hand in the till

Caught with your pants down

Caught with your trousers down

Cross that bridge when you come to it

Cross the bridge

Cry over spilled milk

Cut to the chase

D

Dead as a doornail

Dog days of summer

Don't bite the hand that feeds you

Don't bite hand

Don't count your chickens before they hatch

Don't count your chickens

Don't give up the day job

Don't hold your breath

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Don't look the horse

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

All eggs one basket

Eggs in one basket

Don't put the cart before the horse

Cart before horse

Don't rest on your laurels

Don't rock the boat

Don't shoot the messenger

Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs

Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater

Don't throw stones in glass houses

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Baby with bathwater

Don't upset the apple cart

E

Eat like a bird

Eat like a horse

Eat out of house and home

Eat out of your hand

Eat your heart out

Every cloud has a silver lining

Every dog has its day

Every man for himself

Man for himself

Every trick in the book

Eyes bigger than your stomach

F

Face like thunder

Fair to middling

Fall between two stools

Fall off the wagon

Fish or cut bait

Fish out of water

Fit as a butcher's dog

Fit as a fiddle

As fit as a fiddle

Flat as a pancake

Flat out like a lizard drinking

Flogging a dead horse

Fly by the seat of your pants

Fly off the handle

Fly off his handle

Full of hot air

G

Get your ducks in a row

Give a wide berth

Give as good as you get

Give it a whirl

Give someone the cold shoulder

Give someone the runaround

Give the cold shoulder

Give a cold shoulder

Give the devil his due

Give the game away

Give the green light

Give the show away

Give up the ghost

Go out on a limb

Go the extra mile

Go the whole hog

H

Hair of the dog

Hang by a thread

Have a bone to pick

Have a butcher's

Have a chip on your shoulder

Have a screw loose

Have a tiger by the tail

Have bigger fish to fry

Have your cake and eat it

High on the hog

Hit the ground running

Hit the nail on the head

Nail on the head

Hold your horses

Hold your tongue

I

Ignorance is bliss

In the hot water

In over your head

In the doghouse

In the doldrums

In the driver's seat

In the heat of the moment

In the lap of luxury

In the nick of time

In the same boat

Letters J - R (160 phrases)

J

Jack of all trades

Jump down someone's throat

Jump down your throat

Down your throat

Jump on the bandwagon

Jump the bandwagon

On the bandwagon

Jump on the gravy train

Jump out of the frying pan into the fire

Frying pan fire

Jump out of your skin

Jump through hoops

Through the hoops

K

Keep it under your hat

Keep the wolf from the door

Keep your eye on the ball

Keep your eyes peeled

Keep your hair on

Keep your nose clean

Keep your nose to the grindstone

Keep your pants on

Keep your pecker up

Keep your powder dry

Keep your shirt on

Kick over the traces

Kick the bucket

Kick the can down the road

Can down the road

Kick up your heels

Kill two birds with one stone

Kill two with one

Two birds one stone

L

Laughing all the way to the bank

Leave no stone unturned

No stone unturned

Let sleeping dogs lie

Let the cat out of the bag

Like a bat out of hell

Like a bear with a sore head

Like a bolt from the blue

Like a bull at a gate

Like a bull in a china shop

Like a cat with nine lives

Like a deer in the headlights

Like a dog with two tails

Like a kid in a candy store

Like a moth to a flame

Like a red rag to a bull

Like herding cats

Like shooting fish in a barrel

Like turkeys voting for Christmas

Turkeys for Christmas

Live high off the hog

M

Mad as a hatter

As mad as a hatter

Make the beeline

Make a clean breast

Make a clean sweep

Make a meal of it

Make a mountain out of a molehill

Make a pig of yourself

Make a pig's ear

Make a rod for your own back

Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Make a song and dance

Make hay while the sun shines

Hay while sun shines

Make no bones about it

Mind like a steel trap

Mind your Ps and Qs

Money burns a hole in your pocket

Monkey on your back

N

Needle in a haystack

Nip it in the bud

No skin off my nose

No spring chicken

Not a leg to stand on

Not a snowball's chance in hell

Not give a hoot

Not give a monkey's

Not give a tinker's cuss

Not my cup of tea

Not playing with a full deck

Not worth a brass farthing

Not worth a hill of beans

Not worth beans

Not worth a plugged nickel

Not worth a tinker's damn

Not worth the candle

Not worth the paper it's written on

O

Off your high horse

Off your rocker

On a wing and a prayer

Wing and prayer

On the back foot

On the breadline

On the horns of a dilemma

On the pig's back

On the straight and narrow

On the wrong side of the tracks

Out of the blue

Out of your depth

P

Paint the town red

A piece of cake

Play second fiddle

Pull out all the stops

Pull the wool over your eyes

Wool over your eyes

Put a damper on

Put a sock in it

Put the cart before the horse

Cart before horse

Put the kibosh on

Put the screws on

Put the wind up

Put through the wringer

Put your best foot forward

Put your foot in it

Put your foot in your mouth

Put your money where your mouth is

Put your oar in

Q

Queer as a three-dollar bill

On queer street

Quick as a flash

Quick on the draw

Quiet as a mouse

R

Rain on your parade

Raining buckets

Raining cats and dogs

Raining pitchforks

Ride roughshod over

Ride the shotgun

Ruffle some feathers

Run a tight ship

Run around like a headless chicken

Headless chicken

Run hot and cold

Run like the wind

Run of the mill

Run off your feet

Run out of steam

Run rings around

Letters S - Z (92 phrases)

S

Saddle someone with

Salt of the earth

Scraping the barrel

See which way the wind blows

Sharp as a tack

Shoot from the hip

Shoot the breeze

Sick as a parrot

Sick to the back teeth

Sing like a bird

Sing like a canary

Skeleton in the closet

Spill the beans

Spill all the beans

Square the circle

Steal someone's thunder

Steal their thunder

Stick your neck out

Straight from the horse's mouth

T

Take a rain check

Take it on the chin

Take it with a grain of salt

Take it with salt

Take it with a pinch of salt

Take the bit between your teeth

Take the bull by the horns

Take the gilt off the gingerbread

Take the high road

Take the mickey

Take the rough with the smooth

Rough and smooth

Take the sting out

Take the wind out of your sails

Wind out of sails

Talk the turkey

The whole nine yards

Whole nine yards

Throw in the towel

Throw the towel

U

Under the table

Under the weather

Under your thumb

Under the thumb

Up a blind alley

Up to your ears

Up to your neck

W

Walk on eggshells

Wear your heart on your sleeve

Heart on sleeve

Wet behind the ears

Behind the ears

When hell freezes over

When push comes to shove

When the cat's away

When the chips are down

When the cows come home

When the dust settles

When the fat lady sings

When the going gets tough

When your ship comes in

X

X marks the spot

Y

You can lead a horse to water

You can't have it both ways

You can't judge a book by its cover

Book by its cover

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

You can't polish a turd

You can't pull the wool over my eyes

You can't put the genie back in the bottle

You can't take it with you

You can't teach an old dog new tricks

You can't win 'em all

You can't win them all

You're barking up the wrong tree

You're pulling my leg

You're the bee's knees

You've got another think coming

You've got rocks in your head

You've got your work cut out

Z

Zig when others zag