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1 On the Fence and Maverick 1

2 Buddy and Sidekick 4

3 To Give Someone a Piece of One's Mind and to Tell Someone off 7

4 Hick and City Slicker 10

5 To Throw to the Wolves and to Throw the Baby out with the Bath Water 13

6 To Throw a Wet Blanket on Something and to Throw a Mondey Wrench 16

7 To Let the Cat out of the Bag and Look like the Cat that Ate the Canary 19

8 Rain or Shine and Rainy Day 22

9 To Put on the Dog and to Go to the Dog 24

10 To Let Sleeping Dogs Lie and Every Dog Has His Day 27

11 To Throw a Curve and to Throw for a Loop 30

12 Crocodile Tsears and Sob Story 33

13 To Cry in One's Beer and Cry Baby 36

14 Cloudy and in the Clouds 38

15 On a Cloud and under a Cloud 41

16 Basket Case and All Washed up 44

17 Smart as Intelligence and Fashionable 47

18 To Put on the Back Burner and to Drag One's Feet 49

19 To Turn One's Back on Someone and to Get on Someone's Back 52

20 Nag and to Get off One's Back 55

21 To Get One's Back up and to Scratch One's Back 58

22 Brainchild and to Pick Brains 61

23 To Give up Ghost and Ghost Town 63

24 Ghost Writer and Spooky 66

25 Brainstorm and Egghead 69

26 To Grab a Bite and Grubstake 72

27 Munch and Hors d'oeuvres 75

28 To Call the Shots and to Call One's Bluff 78

29 To Call up and to Call a Day 81

30 To Rub Flbow and Elbow Room 83

31 Shrimp adn Crab 86

32 To Smell Fishy and to Fish for Compliments 89

33 Turdey and Cold Turkey 92

34 Beefy and to Beef up 94

35 Snowball and Snow Job 97

36 To Break the Ice and Iceberg 100

37 Where's the Beef and Turkey Farm 102

38 Sitting Duck and Dead Duck 106

39 To Chicken out and Chicken Feed 110

40 Spring Chicken and Goose Bumps 114

41 To Make Hay and to Go Haywire 117

42 The Last Straw and Wild Oats 121

43 Belly Laugh and Knee-slapper 124

44 A Straw in the Wind and to Grasp at Straw 128

45 Trailblazer and Cutting Edge 132

46 Penny-pincher and Cheapskate 135

47 Not All There and to Have a Screw Loose 139

48 Under the Weather and Down with a Bug 143

49 Baby Boomers and Yuppies 147

50 Dinks and Sandwich Generation 151

51 Coach Potato and Mall Rats 154

52 Backsliker and Backslapper 158

53 Backseat Driver and Back-up System 162

54 In the Pink and Fit as a Fiddle 166

55 To Play Ball and on the Ball 170

56 Now the Ball Is in Your Court and to Start the Ball Rolling 174

57 Skin-deep and That Really Gets under My Skin 178

58 No Skin off My Nose and to Save One's Skin 181

59 At the Wheel and Hell on Wheels 184

60 Spinning One's Wheels and Re-inventing the Wheel 188

61 To Jump Right out of One's Skin and All Skin and Bones 192

62 To Skin Someone Alive and Skin Game 196

63 One of a Kind and Top-notch 200

64 To Crash the Gate (Party )and Crash Course 204

65 Set of Wheels and Free-wheeler 208

66 Wheeler-dealer and Fifth Wheel 212

67 Green Thumb and All Thumbs 216

68 Under the Thumb and to Stick out Like a Sore Thumb 220

69 Everything from Soup to Nuts and Everything but the Kitchen Sink 224

70 To Kiss Someone or Something Goodbye and Kiss of Death 227

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