| A | B |
|---|
| Foam at the Mouth | To be enraged and show it. |
| Fools' Gold | Iron pyrites, a worthless rock that resembles real gold. Something that appears to be of value, but is not. |
| Spitting Image | The exact likeness or kind. |
| Til the cows come home | A long time. |
| Keep your chin up | To remain joyful in a tough situation. |
| Haste Makes Waste | Quickly doing things results in a poor ending. |
| From Rags To Riches | To go from being very poor to being very wealthy. |
| Funny Farm | A mental institutional facility. |
| Get Up On The Wrong Side Of The Bed | Someone who is having a horrible day. |
| Graveyard Shift | Working hours from about 12:00 am to 8:00 am. The time of the day when most other people are sleeping. |
| Hat Trick | When one player scores three goals in the same hockey game. This idiom can also mean three scores in any other sport, such as three homeruns, three touchdowns, three soccer goals, etc. |
| Kitty-corner | Diagonally across. Sometimes called Catty-Corner as well. |
| Keep body and soul together | To earn a sufficient amount of money in order to keep yourself alive. |
| Off the Record | Something said in confidence that the one speaking doesn't want attributed to him/her. |
| To “Heck” in a Hand basket | Deteriorating and headed for complete disaster. |
| Pedal to the metal | To go full speed, especially while driving a vehicle. |
| To Get Off Scot-free | To escape and not have to pay. |
| Idle Hands Are The Devil's Tools | You are more likely to get in trouble if you have nothing to do. |
| It’s Anyone's Call | A competition where the outcome is difficult to judge or predict. |
| Knee Jerk Reaction | A quick and automatic response. |
| Last but not least | An introduction phrase to let the audience know that the last person mentioned is no less important than those introduced before him/her. |
| Rise and Shine | Time to get out of bed and get ready for work/school. |
| Smell A Rat | To detect someone in the group is betraying the others. |
| Let The Cat Out Of The Bag | To share a secret that wasn't supposed to be shared. |
| New York Minute | A minute that seems to go by quickly, especially in a fast paced environment. |
| Level playing field | A fair competition where no side has an advantage. |
| Rome Was Not Built In A Day | If you want something to be completed properly, then it’s going to take time. |
| Method To My Madness | Strange or crazy actions that appear meaningless but in the end are done for a good reason. |
| Sitting Shotgun | Riding in the front passenger seat of a car. |
| On The Same Page | When multiple people all agree on the same thing. |
| Rule Of Thumb | A rough estimate. |
| Out Of The Blue | Something that suddenly and unexpectedly occurs. |
| Sick As A Dog | To be very sick (with the flu or a cold). |
| Out On The Town | To enjoy yourself by going out. |
| Run out of steam | To be completely out of energy. |
| Tongue And Cheek | Humor, not to be taken serious. |
| Saved By The Bell | Saved at the last possible moment. |
| Scapegoat | Someone else who takes the blame, or is blamed, for something someone else did. |
| Sixth Sense | A paranormal sense that allows you to communicate with the dead. |
| Tie the knot | To get married. |
| Turn A Blind Eye | Refuse to acknowledge something you know is real or legit. |
| Smell Something Fishy | Detecting that something isn't right and there might be a reason for it. |
| Start From Scratch | To do it all over again from the beginning. |
| The Ball Is In Your Court | It is your decision this time. |
| The Best Of Both Worlds | There are two choices and you have them both. |
| The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall | While the bigger and stronger opponent might be a lot more difficult to beat, when you do they suffer a much bigger loss. |
| The Last Straw | When one small burden after another creates an unbearable situation, the last straw is the last small burden that someone can take. |
| To Make A Long Story Short | Something someone would say during a long and boring story in order to keep his/her audience from losing attention. Usually the story isn't shortened. |
| To get Your Duck All In A Row | To get everything organized before you complete a task. |
