- cut the ground from under someone's feet
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
- pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
- pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
- talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
- know one's ass from a hole in the ground
- save one's breath to cool one's porridge
- let the perfect be the enemy of the good
- rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
- keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
- have one's head screwed on the right way
- march to the beat of a different drummer
- not touch something with a ten foot pole
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.