- swear the peace against someone
- shoot through like a Bondi tram
- make a stick for one's own back
- put one's heart on one's sleeve
- shake hands with the unemployed
- put one's shoulder to the wheel
- play the hand that one is dealt
- winnow the wheat from the chaff
- hide one's light under a bushel
- know one's ass from one's elbow
- go to the goat's house for wool
- set one's shoulder to the wheel
- know someone from Adam's off ox
- not be 100 percent on something
- scrape the bottom of the barrel
- ride a horse foaled by an acorn
- throw one's toys out of the cot
- have one's fingers in many pies
- bite off more than one can chew
- wrap around one's little finger
- kick someone when they are down
- take one's football and go home
- keep one's head above the water
- have one's work cut out for one
- look past the end of one's nose
- look past the tip of one's nose
- have someone by the short hairs
- have someone's guts for garters
- wait for the other shoe to drop
- chuck one's toys out of the cot
- allow nature to take her course
- allow nature to take its course
- lead someone up the garden path
- go in one ear and out the other
- have the world by the testicles
- hold someone's feet to the fire
- touch the hem of someone's robe
- get up on the wrong side of bed
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.