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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

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A bone to pick

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A chip on your shoulder

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A far cry from (something)

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A fifth wheel

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A fool and his money are easily parted

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A little bird told me

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A memory like a sieve

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A penny for your thoughts

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A surefire way

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Achilles’s heel

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Acid test

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Actions speak louder than words

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Add insult to injury

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All bark and no bite

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All bets are off

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All in the same boat

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All over the map

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An old soul

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Armchair quarterback

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As easy as pie

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As genuine as a three-dollar bill

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As the crow flies

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At the bottom of the totem pole

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At the end of your rope

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Back to square one

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Back to the drawing board

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Backhanded compliment

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Beat around the bush

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Behind the eight ball

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Bet the ranch

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Big cheese

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Bigwig

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Bite off more than you can chew

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Black market

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Black sheep

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Blackball someone

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Blowing smoke

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Boiling point

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Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth

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Bread and butter

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Bring home the bacon

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Bull in a china shop

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44
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Burn bridges

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45
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Burn the candle at both ends

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46
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Burn the midnight oil

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Bury the hatchet

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Bury your head in the sand

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49
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Call a spade a spade

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Call the shots

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51
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Can’t hold a candle to something or someone

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Can’t see the forest for the trees

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53
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Cast pearls before swine

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54
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Catch-22

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55
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Caught with your hand in the cookie jar

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56
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Change horses midstream

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57
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Change of heart

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58
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Checkered past

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59
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Chewing the fat

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60
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Clear as mud

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Cold feet

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Come clean

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Come hell or high water

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Comparing apples to oranges

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65
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Cool as a cucumber

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Couldn’t care less

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Cream of the crop

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Cross that bridge when you come to it

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Curve ball

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Cut someone off at the knees

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Cut to the chase

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Dark horse

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Dawned on me

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Dead in the water

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Dead ringer

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Diamond in the rought

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Different strokes for different folks

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Doesn’t hold water

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Dog and pony show

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Dog days of summer

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Dog-eat-dog

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Don’t beat a dead horse

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Don’t cry over spilt milk

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Don’t give up your day job

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Don’t hold your breath

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Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

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Down to the wire

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Drastic times call for drastic measures

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Drop in the bucket

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Eager beaver

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Eat your heart out

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Elevator pitch

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Every dog has his day

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Everything but the kitchen sink

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Face the music

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Fair-weather friend

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Fall on deaf ears

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Familiarity breeds contempt

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Fight an uphill battle

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Fight tooth and nail

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Finger lickin’ good

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Fish out of water

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Fit as a fiddle

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Flavor of the month

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Flesh and blood

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Fly in the face of something

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Fly in the ointment

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Fly the coop

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Foam at the mouth

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Follow the money

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Food for thought

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Foot in the door

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Fortune favors the bold

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From rags to riches

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Full steam ahead

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Get a second wind

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Get a taste of your own medicine

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Get down to brass tacks

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Get down to the nuts and bolts

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Get into deep water

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Get off on the wrong foot

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Get off your high horse

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Get the green light

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Get to the point

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Get wind of something

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Give a run for one’s money

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Give someone a piece of my mind

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Give someone the benefit of the doubt

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Give someone the cold shoulder

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Give them the slip

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Go against the grain

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Go down in flames

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Go fly a kite

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Go out on a limb

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Go postal

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Go to hell in a handbasket

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Goes without saying

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Golden age

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Good things come to those who wait

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Good to know

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Grasping at straws

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Gravy train

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Great minds think alike

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Green thumb

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Green with envy

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Hair of the dog

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Hair’s breath

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Half the bottle

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Happy-go-lucky

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Hard sell

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Hard pill to swallow

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Have an axe to grind

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Hell to pay

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Have two left feet

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Have your head in the clouds

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He who laughs last laughs loudest

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Head in the clouds

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Hear something straight from the horse’s mouth

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He’s not playing with a full deck

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Hit someone below the belt

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Hit the nail on the head

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Hit the sack

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Hold down the fort

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Hold your tongue

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Horse of a different color

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Hot under the color

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