- cross that bridge when one comes to it
- take to something like a duck to water
- talk to God on the big white telephone
- lock someone up and throw away the key
- throw out the baby with the bath water
- make the perfect the enemy of the good
- trust someone as far as one could spit
- snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
- snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
- throw the baby out with the bath water
- march to the beat of one's own drummer
- take one's tongue out of someone's ass
- wait on someone hand, foot, and finger
- cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- boldly go where no man has gone before
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.