Heard the loose cannon ball but not the other one.

 
add insult to injury

put on ice

In my saying, it's not a "cannon ball" that's loose.  It's an actual cannon.  I didn't understand it when I first heard it but my dad said that on the old sailing warships, they had to keep the cannon from rolling around the deck by using restraints.  A "loose cannon" was one that had become free of it's restraints and was rolling around the deck.  It became a hazard to everyone.  Therefore the "loose cannon".

Play second fiddle.

" Minding ones Ps and Qs...."

Often said when told to be on ones best behaviour, whilst in company....

Vanilla #260 Minding ones Ps and Qs

Quote from: Radioman34 on September 09, 2016, 11:02:45 AM
Play second fiddle.

Don, -------  Is that in a musical sense?      Just kidding

I'm in the process of checking and updating.

983 - Button your lip.
984 - He's a loose cannon
985 - add insult to injury
986 - put on ice
987 - Play second fiddle.

#260 - " Minding ones Ps and Qs...."

"He's a flywheel"  (similar to Bull in a china shop)
      added below "Bull in a china shop" - but no new number

out on a limb

the whole kit and caboodle

put a lid on it

colder'n a well digger's (knees) in springtime

Hotter'n the hinges of hades!

catching up ---

988 - out on a limb
989 - put a lid on it
990 - colder'n a well digger's (knees) in springtime
991 - Hotter'n the hinges of hades!
992 - don't put the horse before the cart

#945 - the whole kit and caboodle

#199 - Get off your high horse with me young lady. (a warning from my mother) is a Duplicate of #33 -
             Remove #199  but not reusing the number.

Rememer my gran humorously telling me, and issuing a warning sign, when I was thinking of getting up to mischief or about to do something that she wouldn't be approving of....such as, if I catch you doing that again...

" I'll have your guts for garters..."

pay on the nail

sleep forty winks

When someone is trying to do an impossible task he's described as....

Trying to climb a greased pole.

Quote from: Vanilla-Jackie on December 14, 2016, 05:52:57 AM
To have to admit that you are wrong.....

" to eat humble pie..."

601 - Eat Humble Pie .  It's on the list.

" You wait for hours for a bus, then three come along together..."

Ha ha, a bit like us, no postings since September. then three posters come along, one after the other......


Oh dear, trust me to pick another duplication...I will delete it...

Y'er talkin' about Murphy's law.   

Getting someone to notice me here is like trying to climb a greased wall.  I guess that means it's already in the list.  But it's OK if you didn't notice me.  I tend to be invisible sometimes.  This must be one of those times. 

Merry Christmas Everyfriend!

Adding
997 - " I'll have your guts for garters..."
998 - pay on the nail
999 - sleep forty winks
1000 - Goodness is it's own reward.
1001 - Trying to climb a greased pole.
1002 - That hits the nail on the head

RAMMEL....
...I would say we must be getting close to our full list....never thought when we started we would be topping 1,000....

JANE S....
...I can see you, well you know what I mean, I can, yet I cant...same as I can hear you...ahh the pleasures of being invisible...

RUTUMI....
....Interesting about " laws "....Segal's law....

" A man with a watch knows what time it is.... A man with two watches is never sure...."

Rammel, I don't have entries between 992 and 997. If it is not an omission on my list, then maybe it can be filled by future sayings?

sail under false colors

clean as a whistle

read the riot act

I remember posters on the subway during the war "Button your lip, or you'll sink a ship"

992 - don't put the horse before the cart
993 - Down the hatch.
994 - With bated breath.
995 - Clean as a whistle.
996 - Don't make a Federal case/project out of it.
997 - " I'll have your guts for garters..."

1003 - Youth is wasted on the young.
1004 - sail under false colors
1005 - read the riot act


995 - clean as a whistle
983 - Button your lip.
122 - Loose lips sink ships.

One that has just sprung to mind.....remembering when family members were given something to eat that was too hard or to tough to eat, they would comment that......

" its rock hard, like eating bullets..."...

or chewing bullets, depending on what they were eating...

This one doesn't qualify for this list but back when we were growing up WWII was going on and my grandfather was usually the one who made our breakfast before school.  He would give us toast or pancakes or waffles and my sister would say, "the butter's hard."  And my grandfather answered, "Yes, hard to get.  Eat your breakfast."

My late father would always make me laugh whenever I done a couple of sneezes, by saying....

" what are you doing girl, blowing your brains out...? "

...referring to whether I had any in the first place....

My grandmother told me more than once that....

Sometimes you try the patience of a saint!

I heard that one often enough at school, Jane, and the nuns were raising their arms to the sky.