- put one's household in order
- toss one's hat into the ring
- stick one's head in the sand
- wake up and smell the coffee
- serve someone the same sauce
- flog someone round the fleet
- pull the fat out of the fire
- talk someone under the table
- pull the reins in on someone
- take a walk on the wild side
- know every trick in the book
- make it up as one goes along
- make like a banana and split
- throw a spanner in the works
- ridden hard and put away wet
- have a word in someone's ear
- rock out with one's cock out
- be a hundred years too early
- think with one's little head
- make one's bed and lie in it
- teach someone who's the boss
- put words in someone's mouth
- be gathered to one's fathers
- burn the candle at both ends
- shuffle off this mortal coil
- sweep someone off their feet
- get one's knickers in a knot
- go back to the drawing board
- fall off the back of a lorry
- fall off the back of a truck
- get one's panties in a bunch
- lay one's cards on the table
- bring something to its knees
- get one's undies in a bundle
- march to a different drummer
- lay something at the feet of
- knock it out of the ballpark
- bite the hand that feeds one
- rub salt in someone's wounds
- trip over one's own two feet
- go from strength to strength
- trip the light fantastic toe
- sing off the same hymn sheet
- piss in someone's cornflakes
- attend to one's own knitting
- see the forest for the trees
- come up smelling like a rose
- strike while the iron is hot
- sell someone a bill of goods
- wager a dollar to a doughnut
- follow someone to the toilet
- not have a care in the world
- get to the fireworks factory
- put one's cards on the table
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.