Old Sayings and Quips From our past

[Vanilla-Jackie]

Another one springs to mind...

" looks can be deceiving " or " appearances can be deceiving.."

...said when ones parents didn't trust your new found friend or boyfriend - girlfriend...And you know what? they were often right..

[JaneS]

I found myself saying one yesterday that my mother often used when I was little....

I'm worn to a frazzle....

Meanig, I'm REALLY tired!

[Vanilla-Jackie]

Another one often said...
" When in Rome, do as the Romans do.."

Adapt yourself to the customs...

[Marilyne]

Jane, my mother was often "worn to a frazzle", and sometimes she was "beside herself"!  I remember that she would sometimes look into a mirror, and say, "I look like something the cat dragged in!"

[Mary Ann]

Marilyne, I look in the mirror and feel like I've just "gotten off the boat".  Every day seems to be a "bad hair day".

Mary Ann

[Marilyne]

Mary Ann - When I look into the mirror first thing in the morning, "I look like death warmed over"!  Another one my mother used to often say, "I look like The Wreck of the Hesperus", which I found out years later, was a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about a shipwreck.

[Mary Ann]

Marilyne, I have heard those expressions over the years and I knew about the Wreck of the Hesperus.  If I could read all of the old sayings, I'd bet I've heard most of them.  I say to my family that I have a saying for every occasion and I do say some saying often.

Mary Ann

[JaneS]

Jackie, Marilyne, Mary Ann, I've heard all of those all my life.  I just don't think about them unless I am one of them.  And yesterday, I was definitely "worn to a frazzle"....whatever a frazzle is!

[Vanilla-Jackie]

How about...I'll be...

" Up the creek without a paddle.."

In a right mess - in a difficult situation..

[RAMMEL]

I think that most of the recent postings with possible entries are not quite within the ORIGINAL intent of the collection. (Original intent is no longer the No.1 post since our crash). So, --- at this point I am going to stop adding to my list as a regular thing. I will continue to watch and if I see a good one will add it to my list - but will not number and post. Feel free to keep posting because they are all interesting. If anyone wishes to take over the numbering and posting --- shout it out. Also, as in the past, I can send the list as I now have it to anyone who wants it.

[JaneS]

Thank you, Rammel, for all the time you've put into this.  It's very interesting to find that others in very different areas use the same expressions we've grown up hearing and using.  This was fun and if anyone thinks of a good one please share it.  I'm glad you're not going to ditch the list!

[Vanilla-Jackie]

Rammel...
...I agree with you, you have done an excellent job over the past few years and we have excelled our list, plus it must have been very time consuming for you to have done so...It is now time for us to stop trying to add to it, as you say we can still add pieces of snippets from our memories, but as from now...our book is closed...

[Marilyne]

I hope this folder doesn't close.  Too many discussions in S&F are no longer active, and I hate to see this one join the list. 

Rick, you've worked hard for many years here, keeping track of the "Old Sayings and Quips from our Past", and I agree that we are probably now starting to repeat those sayings, that have already appeared here. You've done a great job!   

I just hope that this can turn into a conversational folder, and it won't matter if we repeat and use idioms that have already been listed.  I think we're the last generation who will remember them and who still use them, so we might as well keep them alive, as long as we are alive! 

[RAMMEL]

Thank you, Rammel, for all the time you've put into this.  It's very interesting to find that others in very different areas use the same expressions we've grown up hearing and using.  This was fun and if anyone thinks of a good one please share it.  I'm glad you're not going to ditch the list!

I'm on the wrong computer now but I think that later when I'm in the right place I will attempt to post the whole list. It may be too long.
I also found it interesting how widespread most of the "sayings" are. Most of the unknown ones to me were from other than the USA.
As far as I'm concerned this area will "stay open" and continue.

[Vanilla-Jackie]

Yes stay open for business but close the book..maybe time to get our book published..

[RAMMEL]

I tried to post the whole list and got ---
 "The message has the following error or errors that must be corrected before continuing:
    The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (20000 characters). "

So, it will have to be sent by email if wanted

[JaneS]

Just for old time's sake, I have a friend who will state, "Oh dear!  My hair's all anyhow".   This is usually when she gets up in the morning.

Just wondering....Rick, could you post the list in parts?  We could then make our own copies if we choose.

[RAMMEL]

Just wondering....Rick, could you post the list in parts?  We could then make our own copies if we choose.

Yes, I can do that. Maybe I'll get started later. Obviously there are more than 1000 lines. I'll start with a large number of lines and then reduce till it accepts.

[RAMMEL]

I couldn't wait 

1 - You're a sketch.
2 - Keep your nose clean.
3 - Keep your shirt on. or Keep your hat on.
4 - Hold your horses.
5 - Put on your thinking cap.
6 - "Good Riddance, To Bad Rubbish!"
7 - "Come down to brass tacks!"
Get down to brass tacks
8 - "Six of one, half dozen of another"
9 - "If wishes were horses, beggars could ride."
10 - Be careful what you wish for!
11 - "Habit doth make slaves of us all"
12 - "A job worth doing is worth doing well."
13 - "Many hands make light work."
14 - " a penny for your thoughts. "
15 - " I wish I had a £1 for every time you said that, I would be rich by now. "
16 - " every cloud has a silver lining. "
17 - "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
          Similar - An ounce of example is worth a pound of advice. 17
18 - "Pretty is as pretty does"
19 - "Look, Before You Leap!"
20 - "Money doesn't grow on trees!"
21 - "I'd stretch a mile if I didn't have to walk back".
            This was when yawning and stretching.
22 - Heavens to Betsy.
23 -  He got more grunt than do.
24 -  Every silver lining has got a big black cloud in the middle of it.
25 -  I'd like to buy him for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth.
26 - Does a cat have a tail?
          Or - Does a he dog have a hang down?
      Said when asked an obvious question.
27 - " Don't count your chickens before they hatch "
28 - " Don't put all your eggs in one basket "
29 - " Two wrongs don't make a right. "
30 - " Too many cooks spoil the broth. "
31 - "A stitch in time saves nine."
32 - "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
33 - "Come down off your high horse"
34 - " all fur coat and no knickers. "
        Which was said of one young female member within our family as being elegant on the outside, but tarty on the inside.
35 - "  all mouth and no trousers. "
          When someone talks or boasts but can't back oneself up.
36 - " It never rains but it pours. "
37 - " Theres no smoke without fire. "
        also "Where there's smoke, there's fire."
38 - "champagne taste and a beer pocketbook"
39 - "It's raining cats and dogs"
40 - "Beggars can't be choosers"
41 - When you made an excuse to my mother that, "I thought it would (or something similar)"  She would invariably reply "You know what a thought did once?  It backfired and blew a man's brains out."
42 - My stars and garters.
43 - "If it had been a bear it'd have bit ya!"
44 - Often when I borrowed small amounts of money from my late father, or as on one occasion my late uncle Sid lending me a small amount. On returning it to pay them back, they would tell me...
" rub it in your hair. "
What they were saying was, I gave you that money, keep it, I don't want it back.
45 - Sometimes on asking my late mother, where are you going?  she would reply with..
" There and back to see how far it is. "
Think mother was trying to tell me to mind my own business, or to not be so nosey.
46 - " a storm in a teacup. " or " making a mountain out of a molehill. "
47 - A chip off the old block.
48 - The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
49 - "Don't get your knickers in a twist"  (from right here on S&F)
        Or "don't get all hot under the collar,"
50 - " I don't have a magic wand. " or " wish I had a magic wand. "
51 - If I asked for something, my parents would say, we cant just conjure it up.
52 - " I'm a bit long in the tooth. "
        Was said to imply, I've been around too long to fall for that one.
53 - " Where there's a will there's a way. "
54 - If wishes were fishes,  we'd have some fried.
55 - "We can plan the party but not the outcome."
56 - You've got, I've got, "...too many irons in the fire".
57 - Zip your lip. - Mum's the word.
58 - "Hitch your wagon to a star"
59 - Easy come, easy go!
60 - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
61 - Seek and ye shall find.
62 - Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
63 - Heavens to Betsy!!
64 - "When I was your age. . ."
65 - Waiting until the cows come home.
66 - Walk a mile in my shoes
67 - Well begun is half done.
68 - "If you can't say something nice don't say anything."
69 - 'Tempest in a teapot.'
70 - If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
71 - Necessity is the mother of invention
72 - Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
73 - Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport
74 - That'll happen "When pigs fly" or "When Hell freezes over".
75 - repeat of 20
76 - When I asked where I was born, I was told..." under a gooseberry bush. " or, "in a cabbage patch."
77 - When I asked about how babies get here, I was told..." a stork brought them. "
78 - "let the doorknob hit you where the dog should have bit you."
            Don't let the door hit you in the a**.
79 -  Monkey see, monkey do!
80 - If I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all!
81 - A friend in need is a friend indeed.
82 - Keep it under your hat.
83 - Step on a crack, break your mother's back.
84 - Eat an apple. It'll clean your teeth.
85 - An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
86 - He who hesitates is lost.
87 - "They're so good when they're sleeping."
88 - "Let sleeping dogs lie." When someone brought up a taboo subject.
89 - "Mezzo mezzo" when some one ask how you are it means so so or in the middle
90 - "That dog don't hunt"  My grandfathers favorite. Meaning That doesn't make sense.
91 - There are starving kids in China who  would like to have that to eat.
92 - When you didn't want to clean you plate. You'll have to sit there until you clean your plate.
93 - waste not, want not.
94 - "Better to be safe, than sorry".
95 - "Don't go off on a wild goose chase"
96 - The pen is mightier than the sword.
97 -  He who strikes the first blow admits he lost the argument.
98 - Never duel in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
99 - when mother was surprised or shocked, she would say:
      "Goodness gracious, me!"
100 - My mothers saying:  "If you do not eat the crust, your hair will not curle"
101 - Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
102 - A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
103 - Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
104 - Childhood isn't all its cracked up to be.
105 - And from one aunt who when surprised would always say, "Lord love a duck!"
106 - a pig in a poke
107 - Don't let the cat out of the bag.
108 - "like a bull in a china shop"
            Similar - He's a flywheel
109 - "closing the gate after the horses ran out"  (what's done, is done)
110 - "too little, too late"
111 - "Old too soon, smart too late"
112 - "You think I just fell off the turnip cart?"  (similar to "I wasn't born yesterday"
          don't try to fool me or I'm not naive) 
113 - Any port in a storm (for whatever works)
114 - If the shoe fits, wear it.
115 - Like it or lump it.
116 - Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you will weep alone.
117 - You never miss the water, till the well runs dry!
118 - "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."
119 - I wasn't born yesterday.
120 - I didn't just get off the bus.
121 - You're preaching to the choir.
122 - Loose lips sink ships.
123 - I before e except after c, or when sounded as A as in neighbor or weigh.
124 - skedaddle
125 - Vanity thy name is woman
126 - Host by my own petard
127 - assumptions make you an _ss
128 - Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
129 - The cat is above all things a dramatist.
130 - curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back
131 - Bite the bullet.
132 - Red sun at night, sailors delight.
          Red sun in the morning, sailors take warning.
133 - A flash in the pan.
134 - The older I get, the behinder I get!
135 - Put on your Sunday go to meeting clothes.
136 - Rome wasn't built in a day.
137 - Time heals all wounds.
138 - "Spot On!"
139 - Make hay while the sun shines.
140 - One day a peacock, next day a featherduster.
141 - Madder than a wet hen.
142 - Mad as a hornet.
143 - Uglier than a mud fence.
144 - Not worth a plug nickel. Not worth a plugged nickel.
145 - It runs like a sewing machine.
146 - Deader than four o'clock.
147 - Deader than a doornail.
148 - Run like a scalded dog.
149 - Caught red handed.
150 - Jumped on like a duck on a junebug.
151 - Not for all the cows in Texas.
152 - He got his plow cleaned. (beaten badly at a game)
153 - Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
154 - Better late than never.
155 - The early bird gets the worm.
156 - Worn to a frazzle.
157 - It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
158 - Time goes by fast when you're having fun.
159 - What in the Sam hill.
160 - They're spinning more tails than a tuxedo factory.
161 - I'm happy as a clam at high tide.
162 - Slow as cream rising on buttermilk.
163 - The higher a monkey goes the more he shows
164 - "He'd give you the shirt off his back"
165 - You can't get blood out of a turnip. (or a rock)
166 - A watched pot never boils.
167 - I'll dance with you till the cows come home!
          or You'll wait till the cows come home!
168- "Life is simpler when you plow around the stump."
169 - "Every path has a few puddles."
170 - "When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty."
171 - "The best sermons are lived, not preached."
172 - Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
173 - Pistol Pete is watching.
174 - All good things come to those who wait
175 - "Most of the stuff people worry about, ain't never gonna happen anyway."
176 - A penny saved is a penny earned.
177 - Keep your nose to the grindstone.
178 - Beating a dead horse--Navy slang for paying off a pay day loan.
179 - "You've made your bed, now you've got to lie in it".
180 - That's beyond my pay grade.
181 - Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
182 - Money is the root of all evil.
183 - The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions.
184 - "I (You) look like the wreck of the Hesperus".
185 - Lies can travel around the world before truth gets its boots on.
186 - As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
187 - The grass is greener on the other side.
188 - I have bigger fish to fry.
189 - What goes around comes around.
190 - What goes up has to come down.
191 - Never trust a skinny cook.
192 - Dead as a door nail. Dupe of 147
193 - Out of sight, out of mind.
194 - There's more room on the outside than on the inside.
195 - Throw a hissy fit
196 - Have a coniption fit (similar to hissy fit but of longer duration)
197 - Still water runs deep
198 - Up the creek without a paddle
199 - Get off your high horse with me young lady. (a warning from my mother)
200 - If you want to dance, you have to pay the fiddler..... (this has nothing to do with music, but means every action has a consequence)
201 - Fool me once, shame on you. - Fool me twice, shame on me.
202 - Misery loves company.
203 - Smile and the world smiles with you; cry and you cry alone.
204 - Leave well enough, alone!
205 - Don't fix it if it ain't broke - or - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
206 - Snug as a bug in a rug.
207 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
208 - Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
209 - Close, but no cigar.
210 - Cute as a bugs ear
211 - Slow as molasses in January
212 - Snug as a bug in a rug.
213 - Beats a hog a-flying.
214 - Up the creek without a paddle.
215 - One man's trash is another man's treasure.
216 - If you can't beat'em, join'em.
217 - Same old six and seven.
218 - Age before beauty.
219 - The more the merrier.
220 - Add another cup of water to the soup.
221 - Don't take any wooden nickles.
222 - Nothing worthwhile comes easily.
223 - Save for a rainy day.
224 - you have to eat a bag of salt with someone before you know them.
225 - The road is so crooked, a snake would break its back
226 - Busier than a one armed paper hanger!
227 - He's so crooked he could hide behind a corkscrew.
228 - If you got it, flaunt it.
229 - Hold your horses.
230 - All is fair in love and war.
231 - "What this country needs is a really good, 5-cent cigar." - Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall  (1908)
232 - "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" - Herbert Hoover - 1928 Campaign slogan
233 - "Don't swap horses in the middle of a stream" - Abe Lincoln (1864)
234 - Enough is enough.
235 - Rise and shine.
236 - When in Rome, do as Romans do.
237 - Put that in your pipe and smoke it! see 101
238 - In for a penny, in for a Pound/dollar!
239 - Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
240 - Rode hard and put up wet...
241 - Been there, done that.
242 - Are we there yet?
243 - Wake up and smell the coffee (or something else).
244 - Let the good times roll!
245 - Don't air your dirty laundry in public!
246 - Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes
247 - A poor excuse is better than none.  And my mother always added "If you had a          good one you wouldn't need to use it."
248 - who's she the cats mother?
249 - Kick the can down the road.

[RAMMEL]

250 - Hurry up and wait!
251 - The road is so crooked, it would brake a snakes back.  Repeat of #225
252 - Little pitchers have big ears.
253 - Duplicate of #227- Removed
254 - You mark my word.
255 - " I'll love you, and leave you. "
256 - "Lord love a duck" is the first part of a phrase,  spoken by two persons, The second part is "who gives a quack, It was spoken at a poker table Ducks are known as deuces, The first party looking for a fourth duck,the reply in sarcasm when he ddn't get it ,
257 - The buck stops here.
258 - "that's a doozie"  - dad explained something that is a 'doozie' harks back to what was considered THE finest car of the day .. a Duesenberg .
259 - "he's got short arms & long pockets "  -  someone who's  'cheap' .
260 - mind your P's and Q's
261 - "buy in haste , regret at leisure ".
262 - Old habits die hard.
      Old habits never die.
263 - Put your money where your mouth is.
264 - Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
265 - Great minds think alike.
266 - A picture is worth a thousand words
267 - Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
268 - You can't judge a book by its cover
269 - A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
270 - You'll get used to hanging if you hang long enough.
271 - Actions speak louder than words
272 - God helps those who help themselves
273 - Never look a gift horse in the mouth
274 - You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs
275 - None so blind as those who will not see
276 - Empty vessels make the most noise
277 - Truth is stranger than fiction
278 - A still tongue makes a wise head
279 - Least said soonest mended
280 - Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
281 - All roads lead to Rome
282 - He who laughs last, laughs longest
      He who laughs last, laughs best
283 - Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
284 - Strike while the iron is hot
285 - The squeaking wheel gets the grease
286 - When one door shuts, another opens
287 - Your eyes are too big for your belly (stomach)
288 - We will cross that bridge when we come to it.
289 - Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
290 - Haste makes waste
291 - Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
292 - Like father, like son
293 - The apple did not fall far from the tree.
294 - A bad penny always turns up
295 - Barking dogs seldom bite
296 -  All good things must come to an end.
297 - Behind every successful man is a woman
298 - If you play with fire you get burned
299 - There is safety in numbers
300 - Cold hands, warm heart
          300a Warm hands, warm heart
301 - Man proposes, God disposes
302 - Rules are made to be broken
303 - Silence means consent
304 - " Use your loaf. "
             Meaning, to use my brain.
305 - When one poor man relieves another, God Himself laughs outright for joy.
             This is an Isle of Man's saying.
306 - " Its swings and roundabouts. "
307 - " Take the rough with the smooth. "
             Take the good with the bad
308 - Once bitten, twice shy
309 - Revenge is a dish best served cold
310 - All that glitters is not gold.
311 - " As stubborn as a mule. "
312 - GIGO - Garbage in, garbage out.
313 - His bark is worse than his bite.
314 - The nail that sticks up above the rest will get hammered down first.
315 - Faith can move mountains.
316 - A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
317 - Boys will be boys
318 - None so deaf as those who will not hear
319 - The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
320 - Birds of a feather flock together.
321 - Never say never.
322 - Beauty is the wisdom of women.
      Wisdom is the beauty of men.
323 - Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
324 - Referring to March - In like a lion, out like a lamb
325 - March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
326 - Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
327 - Justice delayed is justice denied.
328 - Hunger is a good sauce.
329 - Every ass likes to hear himself bray.
330 - A rising tide lifts all boats.
331 - "my two pennies worth"
332 - You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
   One hand washes the other.
333 - Let a smile be your umbrella.
334 - "There's never a dull moment."
335 - "A danger foreseen is half avoided."
336 - "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."
337 - "She / he, hasn't got two pennies to rub together. "
338 - "Ten a Penny."
339 - Re: a "booboo" "This will make it better and it will be all gone by your wedding."
340 - " That puts the nail in the coffin. "
341 - " Putting the mockers on it. " - Bringing / causing, jeopardising bad luck before its started or before its done. Such as, don't say that, otherwise you will put the mockers on it.
342 - " I'll have your guts for garters. "
343 - Ignorance is bliss.
           "Ignorance is no  recourse"
344 - No news is good news.
345 - If it had teeth it would bite you.
346 - "This will happen on the week with four Thursdays"
              or - First Sunday in the middle of the week.
347 - " Don't go upsetting the apple cart."
348 - Seeing is believing
349 - The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
350 - If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
351 - " Giving someone a taste of their own medicine. "
352 - Great oaks grow from small acorns.
353 - Hatred is as blind as love.
354 - Children should be seen and not heard.
355 - It's good to be smart; being too smart is not being smart at all.
356 - As fast as greased lightning.
357 - Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
               Opportunity knocks but once.
358 - False friends are worse than open enemies.
359 - " If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. "
360 - If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance. (African proverb)
361 - However long the night, the dawn will break. (idem)
362 - Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.
363 - when two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
364 - " God works in mysterious ways. "
365 - " You've got to speculate to accumulate. "
366 - If you are hiding, don't light a fire!
367 - Give a smile and you bring the world new hope.
368 - Your left-hand doesn't know what your right hand is doing
369 - Show me your company and I will tell you what you are.
               or  You are judged by the company you keep.
               or Show me your friend and I will show you your character.
370 - Feed the cold and starve a fever.
371 - " Knee high to a grasshopper. "
372 - 'We reap what we sow.'
373 - A fool and his gold are soon parted.
374 - " Charity begins at home. "
375 - The higher the mountain the bigger the fall
376 - " We live and learn. "
377 - A fool empties his head every time he opens his mouth.
378 - A good listener is not only popular, but he learns while he listens.
379 - A gossip is one who has a sense of humour.
380 - Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
381 - Blessed is he who expects nothing for he will never be disappointed
382 - "blessed be her soul"
383 - Cleanliness is next to Godliness
384 - " Its all double Dutch to me. "
385 - " How long is a piece of string. "
386 - " your guess is as good as mine. "
387 - "Why can't we?" or similar query with "Why don't we keep pigs in the parlor?"
388 - "when hen's will grow teeth!"
389 - It's Greek to me.
390 - A person with a green thumb seldom paints a town red.
391 - If you do a favour, forget it. If you receive a favour, remember it.
392 - " You can't have your cake and eat it. "
393 - " There is a smell of violets here..."
394 - The best things in life may be free, but things money can buy aren't bad either.
395 - You can take the day off, but you can never put it back.
396 - A fine is a tax for doing wrong.  A tax is a fine for doing well.
397 -  Misfortunes never come one at a time.
          Or - After two misfortunes expect the third.
398 - It's like water off a duck's back.
399 - No hunchback sees his own hump ( translated from French)
400 - Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
401 - Jealousy is a bad counsellor. ( from French)
402 - "Stop or I'll make you look like a Picasso portrait"
403 - Hope helps in living
404 - You're barking up the wrong tree.
405 - A change is as good as a rest.
406 - Little leaks sink's the ship.
407 - " A stork brings them. "
408 - " You were born under a gooseberry bush, "
409 - " A problem shared is a problem halved. "
410 - Money, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
411 - Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
412 - Whiskey makes you well when you're ill and ill when you're well.
413 - The day of the storm is not the day to be fixing the thatch.
414 - Possession is nine-tenths of ownership (or, the law).
415 - " What's good for the goose, is good for the gander. "
416 -  " All good things come in small packages. "
417 -  It's hard to teach old dogs new tricks.
418 - "green Christmas, fat cemetery"
419 - Money can't buy happiness
420 - No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
          420a - Where bees are there is honey
421 - Two in distress makes sorrow less.
422 - The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
423 - " Live and let live. "
424 - "Keep your side of the street clean."
425 - " You can kiss goodbye to it. "
      " You can kiss it goodbye. "
425 - Three shakes of a lambs tail.
426 - There's nobody home upstairs.
              "being a few cards short of a full deck"
427 - You've got bats in your belfry.
428 - If you lie down with dogs you will wake up with fleas.
429 - Marry in haste repent at leisure.
430 - There is always a winner even in a monkey's beauty contest. ~African saying
431 - Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
432 - If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
433 - " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. "
434 - " Wiping the slate clean "
435 - " Now kiss and make up. "
436 - They who travel alone. Travel faster.
437 - "cold feet, no sweetheart"
438 - " You've got your whole life ahead of you girl/boy."
439 - " I'll kick you from here to Canarsie "
440 - It's hard to kill a bad thing.
441 - Talking to is like talking to a wooden bird.
                Ex: Talking to Charlie is like talking to a wooden bird
442 - All's well that ends well.
443 - Dead men tell no lies. (tales)
444 - You can't put an old head on young shoulders.
445 - A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
446 - The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
447 - A stab in the dark
448 - Give her an inch and she'll take a mile.
449 - As lively as a march hare.
450 - It is time to bury the hatchet
451 - Is there a bee in your bonnet? (or similar)
452 - He who pays the piper calls the tune
453 - Sing before breakfast cry before night
454 - Does the cat have your tongue?
455 - Each to his own and God watching over everyone.
456 - If you don't venture you don't win.
457 - The most beautiful fig may contain a worm. ~Zulu Proverb
458 - That's a red herring
459 - A hair from the dog that bit you.
460 - One foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel
461 - It's a good thing.
462 - He(she)'s a Dodo (Dōdō)
      also = "As dead as a dodo "  "Dead as a doorknob"
463 - "Time is money."
464 - crazy as a goon/loon
465 - No fool. Like a old fool
466 -  tough as leather/nails
467 - "They jumped over the broom" It was uses when people lived together without marriage.
468 - "I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing against you."
469 - "let's show our bottoms" said at closing time in a pub (10:30) means drink up.closing time.
470 - " will bend over backwards for anyone" always there to help.
471 - "[Born with] the gift of the Gab"
472 - Act your age and not your shoe size.
473 - Time and tide waits for no man.
474 - I had back door trots yesterday
475 - The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do.
476 - A bad reaper never got a good sickle!
477 - (Don't) rub (someone/something) the wrong way.
478 - "Get off my Back" .
479 - "See you when I see you". 
480 - "Be quiet for peace/Pete's sake".
481 - 'Getting off Scott free'
482 - How good to be forward, but how bad to be too forward.
483 - The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do
484 - 'An albatross around one's neck'
485 - Don't go sticking your neck out.
486 - Dumb as an Ox
487 - "Are you trying to make a monkey out of me?"
488 - (You / Are you trying to) "Get my Goat"
489 - "Monkey On Your Back"  I have not heard this one in Years. 
490 - Crazy as a fox.
491 - Sly as a fox
492 -  I'm as old as me nose and a little bit older than my teeth.
493 - 'He's not as green as he's cabbage looking'
      Meaning the person is not as stupid as he looks.
494 - 'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
495 - A day late and a dollar short.
496 - You/I missed the boat.
497 - All over bar the shouting
498 - As rich as Croseus - Meaning very rich, attributed to Croesus the last King of Lydia who was very rich.
499 - "having the Midas touch".

[RAMMEL]

500 - Make no bones of / Make no bones about it.
501 - Manna from heaven.
502 - 'Grin(ing) like a Cheshire cat'.
503 - Don't give up the ship.
504 - 'As The Crow Flies'
505 - 'Best bib and Tucker'  Basically it means putting on your best clothes.
506 - 'Best of British luck.   Meaning you can get on with something, but leave me out of it.
507 - Make the fur fly.
508 - Touch wood.
509 - Fresh as a daisy.
510 - As wise as an owl.
511 - I don't want to  "Miss the Bus".
512 -  Not my cup of tea.
513 - Between you, me and the gatepost (lamp post).
514 - Artful Dodger
515 - At Loggerheads (being in a state of dispute)
516 - (That's) seen better days.
517 - Blow one's own trumpet
518 - Ye of little faith
519 - Kick the bucket
520 - 'Learn the ropes'
521 - he/she/it's A-One
522 - He was Cracker jack.
523 - Raining cats and Dogs
524 - Time to hit the sack
525 - Going from the frying pan into the fire.
526 - 'Put a sock in it'
527 - Chew the fat
528 - Salt of the Earth
529 - Dollars to Donuts.
530 - Lay it on with a trowel
531 - Lay it on the line
532 - At one's Beck and call
533 - 'Laugh up one's sleeve'
534 - Like a daisy in a bull's mouth.
535 - Teaching ones grandmother to suck eggs.
536 - "She is just as pretty as a picture"
537 - "They spend to the last penny"   People who waste money..
538 - "Talk about you behind your Back".
539 - " Quit clowning around" My mum's when we were being to rowdy.
540 - "Get that silly grin off your face"  When people make fun of you
541 - "Just stop with the Crocodile Tears"  When people do fake crying.
542 - Grin and bear it.
543 - "Twiddling my Thumbs"
544 - 'Graveyard shift'
545 - He's got blood on his hands
546 - Spitting image' of someone
547 - Skeleton in the cupboard (closet)
548 - Don't be a 'Wet blanket '
549 - " Will Toss you for it" Used for deciding.
550 - " Got out of bed at the wrong side"
          He/she got out of the wrong side of bed this morning,
551 - "Now shovel me another load"  When people fibbing to you.
552 - "I double dare you"  Getting someone to do something
553 - 'Where there's muck there's brass' - in other words, Where there are dirty jobs to be done there is money to be made
554 - "Born on the wrong side of the blanket"
555 - "Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth"
556 - " Not trying to be goody goody two shoes here"
557 - 'Honest as a day is long'
558 - "Honesty is the best policy"
559 - 'I haven't seen that in donkey's years.' Similar to "A coon's age".
560 - 'Let's have a chinwag.' Similar to #527
561 - 'Fly by Night'
562 - Don't be giving me any of your lip
563 - 'An arm and a leg'
564 - It's a done deed.
565 - In like Flynn.
566 - Banana republic
567 - Viper in one's bosom
568 - Freudian slip
569 - Could sleep on a clothes line
570 - Sleeping with one eye open
571 - It's in the bag.
572 - That sews it up.
573 - Play possum
574 - Rest on one's laurels
575 - A Little bird told me "my little finger told me"
576 - Lay it on with a trowel Spread something thickly or if you are flattering someone, you do so several times.
577 - "I don't give a hoot".
578 -   "Got your shoe  on the other foot".  Means not being right I believe.
                                The boot/shoe is on the other foot
579 - " You want a Fat Lip"  When someone wanted a fight.
579 - "Your mother wears Army Boots"
580 -  "My dad can beat your dad anyway".
581 - Bun fight Usually it means a formal party on an important occasion
582 - A word to the wise is sufficient
583 - Don't borrow trouble.
584 - Bob's your Uncle  In the UK it means everything is perfect.
585 - " Thumbs Up"  Means you did well.
586 - " Go take a Hike"
587 - "What's with the Monkey Face".  When, as a child you started to cry
588 - " You are driving us up the Wall"
589 - " Stop Loitering around"
590 - " Left in the Lurch.             Abandoned in a difficult position without help.
591 -  You are the Apple of my eye"
592 - "Lets not beat around the bush" To get right to the point
593 - "Acts like a Big Wig"  Better than other people
594 - "Its like the Blind leading the Blind"  When both people doing it wrong, or without knowledge.
595 - " You are silly as a Billy Goat"    Billy Goats are always bumping into things and head
                                                Butting each other.
596 - " He has done a runner "  Someone gone after doing wrong. (Police said that all the time).
597 - "They did a Moonlite Flit"  People moved out of a house late night not paying their Rent.
598 - "Stay as quiet as a Mouse"
599 - " I'll only tell you once"
600 - It's/That's dirt cheap
601 - Eat Humble Pie
602 - Fight like Killkenny cats
603 - Keep your chin up
604 - An Englishmans home is his castle. A man's home .......
605 - Talking to you is like talking to a wooden bird. Duplicate/441
606 - It's hard to kill a bad thing.  Duplicate of 440
607 - Turn over a new leaf
608 - "to put in my two cents"
609 - "I have an axe to grind with you"
610 - "a bone to pick with you"
611 - thought he was "the bee's knees"
612 - "the cat's pajamas"
613 - we took for "granite" (granted - "written in stone").
614 - Don't let the cows/flies in. Shut the door
615 - High as a kite
616 - Get your wires crossed
617 - Odour of sanctity means to be seen as better than one is.
618 - French leave
619 - It takes two to tango
620 - "Gone for Burton" (For a drink/ in the drink)
621 - Pardon me for talking while you were interrupting.
622 - "The sweet smell of success"
623 - As pure as the driven snow
624 - Cat among the pigeons
625 - With flying colors
626 - Walls have ears.
627 - As broad as it is wide./As broad as it is long
628 - Never mind the quality, feel the width.
629 - You can run but you can't hide.
630 - "If only these wall could talk" 
631 - "Would love to be a fly on the Wall"
632 - "Now does that tickle your Fancy"
633 - Talk is cheap
634 - Wet your whistle
635 - A cat in gloves catches no mice
   635A - A closed mouth catches no flies. 
636 - Leave no stone unturned.
637 - Spare the rod and spoil the child.
638 - Hold the fort.
639 - The fat is in the fire.
640 - It's a done deal.
641 - No sooner said than done.
642 - You're/he/she's lower than a snake.
643 - Ship shape and Bristol fashion Meaning everything is neat and tidy
644 - He was right, dead right, as he sped along,
but he's just as dead as if he was wrong.
645 - There's no honor among thieves.
646 - The Devil protects his own.
647 - "You are dead wrong"
648 - Get the sack.
649 - Get the hook.
650 - Eating humble pie
651 - Any way you slice it, it's still bologna
652 - Tempus Fugit - Time flies.
653 - Knowledge is power.
654 - If you can't bite, better not show your teeth.
655 - Nineteen to the dozen
656 - Knowledge is power.
657 - Like/As alike as   two peas in a pod.
658 - From Strength to Strength
659 - Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians.
660 - Pipe Down.  Or stop talking! - lower your voices.
661 - I will wear my heart on my sleeve.
662 - He who hits and runs away lives to fight another day.
663 - A Miss Is As Good As a Mile.
664 - Close only counts in Horse Shoes - similar to #663
665 - It's better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness
666 - " three sheets to the wind...."
667 - Take the wind out of one's sails
668 - Read Between The Lines.
669 - He's a Windbag
670 - Like, " ships that pass in the night...."
671 - Like little ships that go to sea, I push my spoon away from me.
672 - What The Dickens
673 - Going to Rack (Wrack) and Ruin
674 - "You little Rascal"
675 - Put One's Oar In Meaning meddling or interfering in someone else's business or affairs.
676 - Like A House on Fire
677 - Over the moon
678 - Only the sufferers know how their bellies ache.   (on experience)
679 - He/she/they "are not out of the woods" (said of badly injured people)
680 - Back to the Drawing Board.
681 - The pot calling the kettle black.
682 - Pride Goes Before a Fall.
683 - Old age and treachery win out every time.
684 - Experience is the best teacher.
685 - Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
686 - The shank of the night.
687 - Walk the straight and narrow.
688 - Don't stick your head in the sand.
689 - Good guys finish last.
690 - You look like the cat that swallowed the canary.
691 - Take a powder.
692 - Keep your powder dry.
693 - (That's) Nothing to write home about.
694 - Not worth his salt
695 - Watch like a hawk.
696 - Spending is quick; earning is slow.
697 - A Cross to bear
698 - Stick In The Mud
699 - dragging one's heels
700 - Carved in stone.
701 - "Chomping at the Bit"
702 - Run of the mill.
703 - "If in doubt, don't"
                 "When in doubt, leave it out." referring to the use of commas.
704 - Footloose and fancy free
705 - Keep your fingers crossed
706 - As The Saying Goes    ? ? ?
707 - I stand corrected.
708 - Make Ends Meet.
709 - Chasing ones tail (running around in circles)
710 - Know which side your bread is buttered on
711 - Health is better than wealth.
712 - Anything for a quiet Life
713 - Marches to a different drummer
714 - You must have rocks in your head
715 - neither here nor there
716 - The Long and Short of It
717 - You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
718 - Hindsight is always twenty-twenty
719 - Off His Own Bat
720 - Talking through your hat
721 - That's how the cookie crumbles.
722 - Fit as a fiddle
723 - Flat as a pancake
724 - Burn the midnight oil
725 - Don't give up the day job
726 - Between a rock and a hard place.
727 - Butter Someone Up
728 - The short end of the stick
729 - You want your bread buttered on both sides.
730 - Alive and Kicking
731 - Excuse my French
732 - out of the blue
733 - the squeaky wheel gets the grease See 285
734 - History repeats itself
735 - Slap up Meal
736 - Burn the candle at both ends.
737 - play both ends against the middle.
738 - She doesn't have all her buttons.
739 - "Off her rocker".
740 - People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
741 - Under the thumb
742 - It's a rule of thumb
743 - A gully washer
744 - Closing the door after the horses/cows got out.
745 - You can't hold a candle to _____
746 - Fair exchange is no robbery
747 - No holds barred
748 - Up for grabs.
749 - Pie in the sky

[RAMMEL]

750 - Joined at the hip
751 - stretching the truth
752 - blind as a bat
753 - In one ear and out the other
754 - Hook, line, and sinker
755 - Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear
756 - Only in the darkness can you see the stars
757 - Back to square one
758 - Balloon goes up
759 - Skinny as a rail
760 - Smart as a whip
761 - Sharp as a tack
762 - There's no accounting for taste.
763 - Seeing eye to eye.
764 - Fish always stinks from the head downwards
765 - That did the trick.
766 - Make a long story short
767 - Only 2 more days and a gitup!
768 - straight from the horse's mouth
769 - Sounds like a fish story
770 - something up his sleeve
771 - Enough to curl your hair
             So scary it'll curl your hair
772 - Clip one's wings
773 - On The Slate / Tab / cuff
774 - Worth as much as a wooden nickle.
775 - It comes with the territory.
776 - Eat my Hat
777 - Fell of the Back of A lorry / truck
778 - That's an accident going somewhere to happen.
779 - The cheese stands alone.
780 - wake the dead
781 - fly by the seat of your pants
782 - busting one's bubble
783 - "Sit tight"
784 - Beyond The Pale
785 - You're skating on thin ice
786 - Don't push your luck.
787 - Face the music.
788 - No more monkey shines.
789 - It's colder 'n blue blazes!
790 - "Red up that room" My grandmother used to tell us that our bedroom was messy and we better...
791 - Start The Ball Rolling
792 - Method to my madness
793 - Ran into a stone wall.
794 - The truth will out.
795 - Go along on (riding) another person's shirt tails
796 - Pleased as Punch
797 - Swing the Lead
798 - I struck out with her!
799 - One For The Road
800 - You made your bed. Now you must sleep in it!
801 - To run is not necessarily to arrive
802 - "Take me as you find me..."  Similar to # 307, but different enough.
803 - "What you see is what you get...."
804 - Oil and water do not mix
805 - He who refuses to obey cannot command.
806 - If I were starving and it was raining soup, I'd be standing there with a fork!
807 - I'm up to my neck in aligators.
808 - In The Twinkling (blink, wink) of an Eye
809 - To err is human. To forgive Divine!
810 - "Quick as a wink"
811 - Wide of the Mark
812 - "fits the bill"
813 - Let no good deed go unpunished.
814 - Pay Through The Nose
815 - A pat on the the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants,             is miles ahead in results.
816 - Don't get your nose out of joint.
817 - Money for old rope
818 - Pin Money
819 - on pins and needles
820 - Over the hill
821 - Cool as a cucumber.
822 - Jump on the Bandwagon
823 - Grasp the Nettle
824 - "The clock is ticking...."
825 - Good words are food, bad words poison
826 - The customer is always right
827 - "She has a hitch in her git-along."
828 - A fly in the ointment.
829 - The best thing to come along since sliced bread.
830 - Go fly a kite
831 - Don't get into water over your head
832 - Why don't you go play in traffic?
833 - Set brain in gear before starting mouth
             Similar (Belgian) - Turn your tongue seven time inside your  mouth before talking
834 - Ties up the loose ends
835 - Make a beeline for
836 - Fat chance.
837 - Be careful! Your face will freeze and you'll look like that for the rest of your life!
                  similar --- If the wind changes your face will stay like that.
838 - Go soak - or - Go soak your head.
839 - Drop dead or Drop dead twice.
840 - Why don't you go take a flying leap in a rolling donut.
841 - Why don't you go take a long walk on a short pier!
842 - I wish you were on the radio so I could turn you off!
843 - You should be on the stage ------ It leaves soon.
844 - Don't bite off more than you can chew
845 - Never a borrower or a lender be.
846 - What in the Sam Hill (or similar)
*847 - "Dag nab it."
848 - "Taint funny McGee"
849 - No kidding dick tracy.
850 - Cooking with gas
851 - Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand
852 - Money can't talk, yet it can make lies look true.
853 - Money talks.
854 - He tap danced all around the subject. - He danced all around it.
855 - Fifteen minutes of fame.
856 - The gorilla in the room.
857 - May you be in Heaven and hour before the divil know's you're dead!
858 - "There's only so many somedays to a customer?"
859 - Don't wish your life away!
860 - Unkindest cut of all
861 - Beauty is as beauty does! - (stupid is as stupid does)
862 - Practice makes perfect!
863 - Practice what you preach
864 - Foolish spending is a father of poverty (Manx)
865 - Crumbs are also bread.   (Don't ignore the small things)
866 - Never stoop to someone's level because then they'll beat you with,(or their?);  experience.
867 - Sweep it (or don't sweep it) under the carpet.
868 - The fool speaks, the wise man listens
869 - At the drop of a hat
870 - Let your hair down
871 - Don't mistake activity for achievement.
872 - A foot in the door
873 - Bending the rules
874 - Still wet behind the ears.
875 - There is practical knowledge and then there is book smarts.
876 - "I'm not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."
877 - Better little than too little
878 - If it's not one thing, it's another!
879 - "Dogs have masters. Cats have staff."
880 - Drastic times call for drastic measures
881 - Not a spark of decency
882 - "shoot the breeze"
883 - High and Dry
884 - "white rabbit morning, (day)."
885 - On the wagon
886 - His/her/your name is mud
887 - It went kaput
888 - The friends of our friends are our friends
                "The enemies of our enemies are our friends."
889 - In again, out again Finnegan
890 - Baptism of fire
891 - Pour oil on troubled waters
892 - It mixes like oil and water  Repeat of 804
893 - She's so excited, she's beside herself
894 - Someone forgot to turn on the Sunshine Pump
895 - Shut That Door, Were You Born In A Barn
896 - That baby is growing so fast- they feed him  yeast.
             She's growing like a weed.
897 - To thine own self be true.
898 - A Foregone Conclusion.
899 - Get your dander up.
890A - Don't be a bird brain
891A - this is a fine kettle of fish
892A - After me, the flood - Should the world come to an end after me  I wouldn't care or worry.
893A - A Lick and a promise
894A - A sneaking suspicion
895A - Touch wood and cross fingers
896A - Don't lose your cool or temper.
897A - a run for its money
898A - If we live that long and the rivers don't rise.
            "The good Lord willing and the creek don't rise"
899A - One of a kind
900 - Stick to your guns
901 - Push the Boat Out
902 - Batten down the hatches
903 - Get a leg up on .....
904 - Tuck that in your bonnet (hat)
905 - Bring to heel
906 - Go For Broke
907 - Blow (Give) a raspberry
908 - "He's a ham"
909 - Hold the purse strings
910 - Pass the buck
911 - Hoist by one's own petard - Basically that any damage done to him, he caused by his own actions and not any others.
912 - A new broom sweeps clean.
913 - Penny wise and pound foolish.
914 - Give up the ghost.
915 - He/she 's a caution
916 - Get poppin
917 - Throw caution to the wind.
918 - Get the bit between one's teeth
919 - It takes one to know one
920 - beauty is only skin deep
921 - Jack-of-all-trades: master of none
922 - The game is not worth the candle
923 - Don't cry over spilled milk
924 - It ain't over 'til it's over
925 - The game (jig) is up.
926 - You can tell who wears the trousers in that house..."
927 - " He is tied to his mothers apron strings..."
928 - " She or he, is a gold digger..."
929 - Put one's shoulder to the wheel
930 - Snow on the roof doesn't mean the fire is out
931 - Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
932 - A lazy tailor uses a long thread.
933 - "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
934 - Money is like manure. It's no good unless you spread it around.
935 - Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
936 - Raise  ______ hackles
937 - " That will raise a few eyebrows..."
938 - A good conscience is a soft pillow
939 - Man is the head of the family and woman is the neck that turns the head.
940 - Let he without sin cast the first stone.
941 - Indian giver
942 - Fair weather friend
943 - When the cat's away the mice will play
944 - I would take that with a pinch of salt.
945 - The whole kit and kaboodle.
946 - Failure teaches success.
947 - One shoe/size does not fit all.
948 - He's an  empty suit.
949 - Empty barrels make the most noise.
950 - Too big for his britches.
951 - Deep six it.
952 - Shrouds have no pockets.
                  "You can't take it with you"
953 - If that guy/gal had half a brain it would be lonely
              If he had half a brain he would be dangerous
954 - Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
955 - A rose by any other name is still a rose.
               "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
956 - What can't be cured must be endured
957 - The other side of the coin.
958 - Never look a gift horse in the mouth.  Duplicate of #273
959 - Patience of Job.
960 - No great shakes.
961 - Knock on wood.
962 - Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.
963 - "It's what comes out of the south end of a cow heading north!"
964 - The distance between Heaven and Earth is no greater than one thought.
965 - Don't jump the gun.
966 - "Use the elevator if you can, the escalator if you can't, but the surest way to the top is to take the stairs, one step at a time."
967 -  Patience is a virtue
968 - It speaks volumes.
969 - Rain before seven, fine before eleven
970 - No rhyme or reason.
971 - Few and far between.
972 - (It's like) "Striking gold".
973 - On the money.
974 - They give with one hand and take from the other
975 - The age of miracles is past
976 - "Stick me with a fork--I'm done!"
977 - Give him (someone) your little finger, and he'll take your whole hand.
978 - armed to the teeth
979 -  Grit your teeth and bear it.
980 - go haywire
981 - Grab the bull by the horns.
982 - You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
983 - Button your lip.
984 - He's a loose cannon
985 - add insult to injury
986 - put on ice
987 - Play second fiddle.
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
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..."
998 - pay on the nail
999 - sleep forty winks

[RAMMEL]

1000 - Goodness is it's own reward.
1001 - Trying to climb a greased pole.
1002 - That hits the nail on the head
1003 - Youth is wasted on the young.
1004 - sail under false colors
1005 - read the riot act
1006 - " its rock hard, like eating bullets..."
1007 - You try the patience of a saint.
1008 - Slip of the lip
1009 - blaze the/a trail
1010 - red rag to a bull
1011 - in a nutshell
1012 - "spend a penny"
1013 - Water under the bridge.
1014 - " I'm making a real pigs ear of it...."
1015 - grass widow
1016 - kangaroo court
1017 - at the eleventh hour
1018 - a lame duck
1019 - " For love nor money...."
1020 - " A bit slow on the uptake...."
1021 - "Sleep tight - don't let the bedbugs bite!"
1022 - pull someone's leg
1023 - He/She is good as gold
1024 - " He - she, is not backward in coming forward....."
1025 - " I'll give it food for thought...."
1026 - crying over spilt milk
1027 -For crying out loud.
1028 - below the belt
1029 - spill the beans
1030 - " My/your neck of the woods..."
1031 - Busy as a bee.
1032 - Your goose is cooked.
1033 - "If we,(or you); were cruising for a bruising?"
1034 - He/she gave me the evil eye.
1035 - You can hang your hat on it.
1036 - Get a grip on yourself/it/things
1037 - " Two heads are better than one...."
1038 - under the wire.
1039 - In the nick of time.
1040 - clutch at straws / Grabbing straws
1041 - white elephant
1042 - white knight
1043 - " there's no flies on you/him/her..."
1044 - you'll catch yourself a death of (you name it).
1045 - " I wouldn't touch him/her/it with a ten foot pole.."
1046 - "be grateful for small mercies"
1047 - "be thankful for small favors"
1048 - " practice what you peach..."
1049 - " He - she has a one track mind..."
1050 - Let's not tar all of them with the same brush.
1051 - As fast as greased lightning
1052 - It's like trying to catch a greased pig.
          or - slippery as an eel
1053 - Clear as mud.
1054 - "He was the type of person who would give you a straw hat in a blizzard"
1055 - She's dumber than glue!
1056 - I'm up to my neck in alligators.
1057 - thorn in the flesh (one's side)
1058 - see the writing on the wall
1059 - Don't get yourself in a lather.
1060 - The bigger they come, the harder they fall.
1061 - "He's so sick he's knocking on the Pearly Gates"
1062 - Fine as frogs hair.
1063 - scarce as hen's teeth.
1064 - Put an egg in your/ boot (hat) and beat it.
1065 - Stick that in your hat and pull it down over your ears.
1066 - living in an ivory tower
1067 - taking the lion's share
1068 - to meet one's Waterloo
1069 - to be trigger-happy
1070 - Stuffed to the gills
1071 - take down a peg
1072 - sacred cow
1073 - Don't be a hairbrain
1074 - It's leaning towards funstance  (never heard this one, but---)
1075 - stumbling block
1076 - Never make a promise when you are happy.
1077 - the wheel has come full circle
1078 - He's/You've got egg on your face.
1079 - Talking turkey
1080 - Now there's a cock and bull story
1081 - She can't keep two peas in her mouth.
1082 - That'll take the starch out of your pants.
1083 - " she-he, doesn't mince her-his words "
1084 - "A woman's work is never done..."
      A man may work from sun to sun but a woman's work is never done.
1085 - "Wishing won't make it so."
1086 - " The calm before the storm.."
1087 - " It is just the tip of the iceberg..."
1088 - "Don't go shopping for food when you're hungry"
1089 - " A blessing in disguise.."
1090 - Fight fire with fire.
1091 - If you can't say anything good, don't say anything.
1092 - (you're,he's/she's) nutty as a fruitcake.    (Vanilla-Jackie)
1093 - " Give a wide birth to..."
1094 - You're never too old to learn
1095 - I think we're "Grasping at straws".
1096 - (don't) "fly off the handle"
1097 - "Buckle down"
1098 - Put up or shut up.
1099 - You should take a man as he means, not as he says!
1100 - " cant see past the end of their nose..."
1101 - " to cut off your nose to spite your face..."

You should be able to copy / paste these to your own document.
Amen

[Mary Ann]

Rick, I copied the sayings and revised the format to what I usually use and I ended up with 33 pages!  I also copied your saying at the bottom of your posts because I think it is so true.

Mary Ann

[RAMMEL]

Rick, I copied the sayings and revised the format to what I usually use and I ended up with 33 pages!  I also copied your saying at the bottom of your posts because I think it is so true.

Mary Ann

I have mine saved as a WordPad Document in an RTF (Rich Text Format) format. It's all one big, long, document. But that lets me search it easily.

[Mary Ann]

Rick, I put mine in MS Word and it is one long document. 

Mary Ann

[RAMMEL]

Rick, I put mine in MS Word and it is one long document. 

Mary Ann

I'm curious. Isn't MS Word a part of the MS Office Suite? Something that is purchased in addition to MS Windows?

[Vanilla-Jackie]

This book is a best seller...

Thank you Rammel..

[Mary Ann]

Rick, I am using a 2007 MS Word and Student program that no longer is supported, but it still works.  I did buy it many years ago. 

Mary Ann

[RAMMEL]

Rick, I am using a 2007 MS Word and Student program that no longer is supported, but it still works.  I did buy it many years ago. 

Mary Ann

I hate it when they stop supporting a particular program.  One puts effort into creating something using that program/format and then they drop it.  I guess "they" decide we really didn't want the fruits of our efforts. I had a MS Works program, which is a watered down MS Word (Watered down MS Office Suite) -- dropped it. That gave me a big problem when I went to Win-10 trying to rescue an address book I had.  Cheers for the old pen and pad system we used many moons ago.
"OpenOffice", a free open source program is a big help.  Check out https://www.openoffice.org/.  No automatic download, just info.