- cream in one's jeans
- do someone's head in
- outrun the constable
- mind one's ps and qs
- put one's foot in it
- add fuel to the fire
- drink with the flies
- add insult to injury
- cut the Gordian knot
- get away with murder
- light someone's fire
- get with the program
- put one's mind to it
- talk a mile a minute
- splice the mainbrace
- cross someone's palm
- make an honest woman
- cross someone's path
- chase one's own tail
- cook someone's goose
- kill the fatted calf
- toss someone's salad
- get down to business
- take to the cleaners
- force someone's hand
- stick one's neck out
- turn over a new leaf
- pull out of the fire
- hit on all cylinders
- put someone on blast
- turn someone's crank
- vote with one's feet
- take up a collection
- laugh one's head off
- send someone packing
- turn the boat around
- pull someone's chain
- swing for the fences
- take up the gauntlet
- die and go to heaven
- blow someone's cover
- turn the other cheek
- give a tinker's cuss
- play the gender card
- give a tinker's damn
- blow to kingdom come
- get it how one lives
- make head or tail of
- suffer by comparison
- clip someone's wings
- jump someone's bones
- running the gauntlet
- turn with every wind
- step up to the plate
- smoke like a chimney
- go to someone's head
- pour one's heart out
- pour out one's heart
- pick someone's brain
- weep into one's beer
- set one's heart upon
- speak truth to power
- go to the mattresses
- rain on one's parade
- fight fire with fire
- pump someone's tires
- quake in one's boots
- fall about the place
- split the difference
- yank someone's chain
- twiddle one's thumbs
- give one enough rope
- fight the good fight
- clear someone's name
- give one's eye-teeth
- know which end is up
- give one's right arm
- épater le bourgeois
- know which way is up
- improve the occasion
- teach who's the boss
- go against the grain
- call a spade a spade
- rock someone's socks
- cover someone's back
- make oneself at home
- set the world ablaze
- stand and be counted
- rock someone's world
- fish for compliments
- hoist the white flag
- pee like a racehorse
- set the world aflame
- set the world alight
- beg someone's pardon
- get one's claws into
- give someone a break
- save someone's bacon
- shove it up your ass
- have had one's chips
- break upon the wheel
- get one's finger out
- flutter the dovecote
- run off at the mouth
- go around in circles
- beat around the bush
- give someone his hat
- recover one's senses
- bring down the house
- let the buyer beware
- hand someone his hat
- shape up or ship out
- bring home the bacon
- ruffle some feathers
- fall off one's perch
- stew in one's juices
- take it to the house
- give someone the bag
- cast the first stone
- take it upon oneself
- give someone the eye
- bring owls to Athens
- fall on stony ground
- get one's teeth into
- lay on with a trowel
- run round in circles
- jerk someone's chain
- bring the house down
- ride the cotton pony
- open one's big mouth
- make the welkin ring
- throw someone a bone
- fall over one's feet
- beat the crap out of
- get one's ya-yas out
- come out in the wash
- drag through the mud
- spike someone's guns
- give something a try
- dry up and blow away
- get out at Haymarket
- beat the shit out of
- have one's head read
- carry all before one
- poke one's nose into
- watch one's language
- call someone's bluff
- look before you leap
- throw up one's hands
- show a little ginger
- kick over the traces
- spread like wildfire
- take one's best shot
- feel eight feet tall
- give the time of day
- look down one's nose
- come to a sticky end
- carry owls to Athens
- acknowledge the corn
- keep one's head down
- fill someone's shoes
- stink to high heaven
- preliminarily enjoin
- knock out of the box
- have second thoughts
- wheeling and dealing
- begging the question
- keep one's pecker up
- have seen this movie
- come to one's senses
- get someone's number
- go for the gold ring
- blot one's copy book
- see into a millstone
- go from bad to worse
- have someone's blood
- go from zero to hero
- keep someone company
- get the ball rolling
- rise to the occasion
- show the cloven foot
- rub up the wrong way
- hold all of the aces
- show the cloven hoof
- float someone's boat
- take someone's point
- have the painters in
- see the light of day
- pay through the nose
- keep the pot boiling
- see the way clear to
- lead someone a dance
- bust someone's balls
- soften up the ground
- lose one's virginity
- dance the hempen jig
- fly off at a tangent
- go into one's shells
- hold one's head high
- fly out of the traps
- lead with one's chin
- lick someone's balls
- scream bloody murder
- settle one's affairs
- slip under the radar
- bounce off the walls
- touch one's forelock
- get to the bottom of
- rough up the bullpen
- cut one's own throat
- put on the red light
- pop someone's cherry
- touch someone's robe
- raise the white flag
- make a monkey out of
- stuff the ballot box
- raise unshirted hell
- back the right horse
- chew up and spit out
- get ahead of oneself
- swear like a trooper
- get up someone's ass
- get ahold of oneself
- wipe the slate clean
- draw the short straw
- find a friendly bush
- overintellectualized
- darken a church door
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.