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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