A bad break
A bad hair day
Ride Someone Hard and Put them Away Wet
A bad workman always blames his tools
A big ask
A bigger bang for your buck
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A bite to eat
A blessing in disguise
A bull and cow
A bunch of fives
A chip on your shoulder
A diamond in the rough
A dime a dozen
A doubting Thomas
A drop in the bucket
A fate worse than death
A feather in one's cap
A fish out of water
A flash in the pan
A fly in the ointment
A fly on the wall
A fool and his money are soon parted
A fool's paradise
A foot in the door
A golden key can open any door
A hot potato
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A knight in shining armour
A leopard can't change his spots
A little bird told me
A load of cobblers
A load of codswallop
A lot on your plate
A man after my own heart
A miss is as good as a mile
A penny for your thoughts
A penny saved is a penny earned
A picture paints a thousand words
A piece of cake
A pig in a poke
A place in the sun
A red rag to a bull
A safe pair of hands
A sea change
A sight for sore eyes
A skeleton in the closet
A shot in the arm
A slap on the wrist
A sledgehammer to crack a nut
A sorry sight
A stitch in time saves nine
A stone's throw
A taste of your own medicine
A thorn in my flesh
A toss up
A wolf in sheep's clothing
About face
About time
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Abso-bloody-lutely
Ace in the hole
Achilles' heel
Across the board
Act your age
Actions speak louder than words
Adam's ale
Add fuel to the fire
Add insult to injury
Against the clock
Ain't my first rodeo
Al fresco
Al desko
All at sea
All kidding aside
All bark and no bite
All Greek to me
All in all
All in a day's work
All set
All the way
All thumbs
All together now
Alley cat
Alpha Mom
Alphabet soup
Amber nectar
Amped up
An act of God
An arm and a leg
An axe to grind
An open and shut case
Ankle biter
Apples and pears
As high as a kite
At the drop of a hat
Away with the fairies
Baby brain
Baby bump
Baby snatcher
Back seat driver
Back to square one
Bag lady
Baker's dozen
Barking up the wrong tree
Barnet Fair
Basket case
Bat from the pavilion end
Be a sport
Be glad to see the back of
Beach bum
Bean counter
Beat around the bush
Beauty contest / Beauty parade
Bedroom tax
Bells and whistles
Bend over backwards
Between a rock and a hard place
Between the wars
Beyond price
Big fish in a small pond
Binge watch
Bite off more than you can chew
Bite the dust
Bite your tongue
Blood blister
Blood is thicker than water
Blow a raspberry
Blue plate special
Boat race
Bottle and glass
Bought the farm
Brahms and Lizst
Brass monkey weather
Brass tacks
Break a leg
Breast is best
Bricks and mortar
Brighton Pier
Bring your A game
Brown bread
Brown out
Brum brum
Bucket list
Burn the midnight oil
Bust a move
Buy a lemon
Calendar year
Can't cut the mustard
Canteen culture
Carbon footprint
Carpe diem
Cast iron stomach
Cat got your tongue?
Caught between two stools
Caught by the short hairs (or short and curlies)
Chaise Lounge
Charley horse
Chasing tail
Cheek by jowl
Chicken feed
Cherry ripe
Chew someone out
Children should be seen and not heard
China plate
Chow down
City bike
Click bait
Close but no cigar
Cloud cuckoo land
**** and bull story
Code monkey
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Come hell or high water
Comfort women
Company man
Cop an attitude
Corduroy road
Country house hotel
Crack someone up
Cream crackered
Cross that bridge when you come to it
Cross your fingers
Crunch time
Cry wolf
Curiosity killed the cat
Currant bun
Cut corners
Cut to the chase
Daily grind
Daisy roots
Date rape
Day surgery
Daylight saving time
Dead ringer
Dead white European male
Designated driver
Dial down
Dicky Dirt
Discussing Uganda
Dog and bone
Dog days of summer
Donkey's years
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
Don't cry over spilt milk
Don't give up the day job
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Double denim
Double header
Down to the wire
Dressed to the nines
Drink like a fish
Drive someone up the wall
Dropping like flies
Dry run
Duvet day
Ear popping
Easy-peasy
Eighty six
Elbow grease
Elephant's trunk
Elvis has left the building
Enhanced interrogation techniques
Ethnic cleansing
Every cloud has a silver lining
Everything but the kitchen sink
Evil twin
Excuse my French
Eyebrow raising
Face card
Face the music
Factory farming
Fairytale ending
Far cry from
Feeding frenzy
Fell off the back of a lorry
Field day
Fiddlesticks
Find your feet
Fire the imagination
First among equals
First footing
First World problem
First World
Fixed in your ways
Flea market
Flea pit
Flesh and blood
Flip the bird
Flog a dead horse
Flotsam and jetsam
Foam at the mouth
Food fight
Fools' gold
Frock up
Frog and toad
Fuddy-duddy
Full monty
Full of bull
Funny farm
Gee gee
Gender bender
George Raft
Get a gold star
Get down to brass tacks
Get off on the wrong foot
Get on board
Get out of hand
Get out of the wrong side of the bed
Get over it
Get your head around
Ginger Beer
Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
Give the benefit of the doubt
Give the slip
Glass ceiling
Gnat's bollock
Go belly up
Go for broke
Go out on a limb
Go the extra mile
Going to hell in a handbasket
Good Samaritan
Graveyard shift
Greasy spoon
Great minds think alike
Great scot
Gregory Peck
Gut feeling
Had a good war
Hair of the dog
Half inch
Happy sad
Harry spankers
Has the cat got your tongue?
Haste makes waste
Hat trick
Have a blast
Have a Captain Cook
He makes my flesh (or skin) crawl (or creep)
Head over heels
Hear it on the grapevine
Heebie-jeebies
Hell bent
Help yourself
Hidden in plain sight
High and mighty
High on the hog
High season
Hit the books
Hit the hay
Hit the nail on the head
Hit the sack
Hobson's choice
Hocus pocus
Hold your horses
I can't be doing with it
I can't think straight
I'm good to go
If it's not one thing, it's another
In cahoots with
In a nutshell
In like Flynn
In limbo
In the bag
In the buff
In the heat of the moment
In the same boat
In your face
Inside job
It never rains but it pours
It takes two to tango
It's a small world
It's all gone Pete Tong
It's not rocket science
Ivy league
Jack Palancing
Jam jar
Jelly belly
Jimmy Riddle
Joshing me
Jump on the bandwagon
Jump the shark
Just deserts
Keep an eye on
Keep at bay
Keep body and soul together
Keep your chin up
Khyber pass
Kick the bucket
Kill two birds with one stone
Knee jerk reaction
Knee-trembler
Knock on wood
Know the ropes
Lame duck
Last but not least
Last straw
Lend me your ear
Let bygones be bygones
Let sleeping dogs lie
Let the cat out of the bag
Let your hair down
Let's rewind
Level playing field
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Link rot
Link farm
Liquor someone up
Little devil!
Little fish in a big pond
Loaf of bread
Long in the tooth
Loose cannon
Lord Fred
Lose your head
Lose your touch
Magic mushroom
Make a scene
Make no bones about
Man cave
Many happy returns
Mate's rates
Mea culpa
Mellow yellow
Men in suits
Method to my madness
Mince pies
Mind your language
Miss the boat
Mrs. Mop
Mumbo jumbo
Mum's the word
Mutt and Jeff
My old china
My old Dutch
Nail it
Nest egg
Never-never land
New arrival
New kid on the block
New York minute
Nine to five
Nip slip
Nitty-gritty
No dice
No room to swing a cat
No rush
No saint
No spring chicken
Nose around
North and south
Not all there
Not playing with a full deck
Off one's rocker
Off the hook
Off the record
Old chestnut
On a hiding to nothing
On a wing and a prayer
On cloud nine
On the ball
On the fence
On the record
On your Tod
Once in a blue moon
Open warfare
Out of sight
Out of the blue
Out on the town
Over my dead body
Over the top
Paint the town red
Partner up
Pass the buck
Pedal to the metal
Peachy keen
Peeping Tom
Peg out
Pen and ink
Perfect pitch
Phone it in
Photo bomb
Pig out
Pig's ear
Pigs might fly
Pipe down
Plates of meat
Play Devil's advocate
Play the field
Play safe
Pommy bashing
Porky pies
Potatoes (or taters) in the mould
Potty mouth
Practice makes perfect
Prick up your ears
Pull the plug
Pull the wool over someone's eyes
Pull your horns in
Pulling your leg
Put a sock in it
Quality time
Queer street
Queer the pitch
Rabbit and pork
Rags to riches
Raining cats and dogs
Red letter day
Red tape
Rest up
Riding shotgun
Ring fencing
Rise and shine
Rome was not built in one day
Rosie Lea
Ruby Murray
Rule of thumb
Run out of steam
Sad-ass
Salad days
Saved by the bell
Scarper Flow
Scot-free
Scrape together
Scrub up
See eye to eye
Sexton Blake
Shoot down in flames
Shoot straight
Shoot through
Shovel ready
Side boob
Silver bullet
Silver fox
Silver surfer
Silver threads amongst the gold
Silver tongued
Sit tight
Sixth sense
Skid row
Smell a rat
Smell something fishy
Sniff test
Son of a gun
Sparrow fart
Spitting image
Spoiler alert
Stab in the back
Steal someone's thunder
Step up to the mark
Stitch up
Straight from the horse's mouth
Stranger things have happened
Suck it up
Swing by
Swipe right
Syrup of figs
Take a butchers
Take a raincheck
Take with a grain of salt
Talk of the devil!
Tea leaf
That Friday feeling
That sucks
The acid test
The apple of my eye
The author of your own misfortune
The ball is in your court
The best of both worlds
The best thing since sliced bread
The Big Pond
The bull in the bowler hat
The empty chair
The fog of war
The glorious twelfth
The hair of the dog
The heebie-jeebies
The God Squad
The icing on the cake
The last straw
The nitty-gritty
The sound of leather on willow
The tail is wagging the dog
The town bike
The whole nine yards
The wheels have come off
Third time lucky
Third time's a charm
Throw the towel in
Tie the knot
Til the cows come home
Titfer tat
To cut a long story short
Tongue in cheek
Top banana
Tour de force
Toy-boy
Trouble and strife
Turn a blind eye
Twist someone's arm
Twenty three skidoo
Two and eight
Uncle Dick
Uncle Tom
Under the weather
Unlucky in love
Up a blind alley
Up the creek without a paddle
Ups a daisy
Us versus them
Use your loaf
Van Gogh's ear for music
Variety is the spice of life
Vatican roulette
Wardrobe malfunction
Washed up
Water under the bridge
Wear your heart on your sleeve
Well hung
Wet behind the ears
Where there's muck there's brass
Whipper snapper
Whistle and flute
White elephant
Wild and woolly
Wind someone up
Wine and dine
Winter drawers on
Work out
Word for word
Worse for wear
Would you Adam and Eve it?
Wouldn't be caught dead
X marks the spot
Yarn bombing
Yellow belly
You are what you eat
You can lead a horse to water
You can't judge a book by its cover
You can't teach and old dog new tricks
You can't take it with you
Your guess is as good as mine
Your name is mud
Your number is up
Zip your lip