目录 1
1．Lock,Stock and Barrel 1
2．Greasy Spoon and Potluck 4
3．To Go in One Ear and out the Other and to Play by Ear 7
4．Doggy Bag and Eggs 10
5．In Hot Water and to Throw Cold Water 13
6．To Hold Water andWater off a Duck's Back 15
7．Blow up and Blow out 18
8．To Pull Your Socks up and to Knock Your Socks off 21
9．To Be Led by the Nose and Under Your Nose 24
10．Poker Face and Close to the Vest 27
11．The Shoe Is on the Other Foot and to Work Hand in Glove 30
12．Follow the Nose and to Pay Through the Nose 33
13．To Keep an Ear on the Ground and Up to One's Ears 36
14．Sweeten the Pot and The Cards Are Stacked against You 39
15．To Fly off the Handle and to Bark up the Wrong Tree 42
16．Right on the Beam and to Fly by the Seat of One's Pants 45
17．To Keep One's Shirt on and to Lose One's Shirt 48
18．A Stuffed Shirt and to Give You the Shirt off His 51
Back 51
19．To Bail out and Nose Dive 54
20．Up in Arms and at Arm's Length 57
21．To Shake a Leg and to Pull My Leg 60
22．To Twist Someone's Arm and To Charge Someone an Arm and a Leg 63
23．Taking Candy from a Baby and a Piece of Cake 66
24．Top Gun and Bottom Line 69
25．Just for Laughs and to Laugh up One's Sleeve 72
26．A Horse Laugh and the Last Laugh 75
27．A Red Letter Day and Red Tape 78
28．Black Sheep and White Lie 81
29．Rain Check and It Never Rains But It Pours 84
30．To Stick to One's Guns and Shooting the Breeze 87
31．Green Thumb and Green Light 90
32．Singing the Blue and Like a Bolt out of the Blue 93
33．Apple Pie and Hot Potato 96
34．To Put All His Eggs in One Basket and to Eat Crow 99
35．Monkey Business and to Make a Monkey out of Somebody 102
36．Hot Seat and Hot and Bothered 105
37．To Break Your Neck and to Stick Your Neck out 108
38．Pain in the Neck and Neck and Neck 111
39．To Have a Heart and cross My Heart 114
40．My Heart Stood Still and Heart-to-heart Talk 117
41．To Go All out and to Go Through Hell or High Water 120
42．To Go Broke and to Go Overboard 123
43．To Put One's Best Foot Forward and to Land on One's Feet 126
44．To Get off on the Wrong Foot and to Put Your Foot in Your Mouth 129
45．Cold Feet and Jump in and Get Yom Feet Wet 132
46．Ants in Your Pants and to Have Butterflies in One's Stomach 135
47．To Bug Me and to Loue up 138
48．To Get a Foot in the Door and to Be Dead on One's Feet 141
49．To Stand on One's Two Feet and to Throw Oneself at Someone's Feet 144
50．To Be Swept off One's Feet and Don't Let the Grass Grow Under One's Feet 147
51．To Pull noPunches and Straight from the Horse's Mouth 150
52．No Holds Barred and toLet One's Hair Down 153
53．Loose Cannon and Blockbuster 156
56．Peaches and Cream and Sour Grapes 156
54．Bomb and to Drop a Bombshell 159
55．Oddball and Odds and Ends 162
57．Lemon and Going Banana 168
58．To Shoot the Breeze and Through the Grapevine 171
59．A Fish out of Water and to Teach a Fish How to Swim 174
60．To Fish or Cut Bait and Cold Fish 177
61．To Feast Your Eyes on and to Hit Between the Eyes 180
62．Eyes Pop out and not Even Bat an Eye 183
63．To Have One's Eyes Peeled and to Pull the Wool Over One's Eyes 186
64．To Keep One's Eye on the Ball and EyeOpener 189
65．Flea Market and to Clam up 192
66．Baloney and Kickback 195
67．To Get a Kick out of and to Kick the Bucket 198
68．To Kick up One's Heels and to Kick off 201
69．At the Drop of a Hat and to Talk Through One's Hat 204
70．Hang on to Your Hat and to Keep Something Under Your Hat 207
71．To Eat One's Hat and to Eat One's Heart out 210
72．Nerd and Jock 213
73．Wimp and Turkey 216
74．To Throw One's Hat in the Ring and Stump 219
75．Favorite Son and Sound Bite 222
76．Blame Game and Negative Campaigning 225
77．Swing Voters and to Come out Swinging 228
78．Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream and Jump on the Bandwagon 231
79．Sleaze and Gridlock 234
80．Lame Duck and Golden Parachute 237
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