Here is a list of idioms:

  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • A black look
  • A dark horse
  • A dark horse
  • A loan shark
  • A pig
  • A red light
  • A rolling stone gathers no moss
  • A scapegoat
  • Black-hearted
  • Boot out
  • Break a leg
  • Burning the candle at both ends
  • Can't see the wood for the trees
  • Can't see your nose in front of your face
  • Cat got your tongue?
  • Cut off your nose to spite your face
  • Fishy
  • Have their cake and eat it too
  • He who pays the piper calls the tune
  • Juggling picked onions - carrying out a hazardous/difficult task
  • Killing two birds with one stone - completing two tasks with one process.
  • Nuts on
  • Over the hill - Old
  • Reading between the lines - Infering information not explicitly stated
  • Red tape
  • Right under your nose - Something so obvious that it is easily overlooked
  • Ripe
  • Rooted to the spot
  • Six of one, half-a-dozen of another - Two things that are essentially the same
  • Sour grapes
  • Still waters run deep
  • The cat's out of the bag now
  • The grass is always greener on the other side
  • To be catty
  • To bear fruit
  • To become red
  • To collar
  • To crop up
  • To dress up
  • To feel blue
  • To fish
  • To hound
  • To lionize
  • To pocket
  • To turn turtle
  • Up a creek without a paddle.
  • Water under the bridge
  • What goes around comes around - Your will eventually have to face the consequences of your actions towards others
  • What's good for the goose is good for the gander - If something is good for one person, it is good for everyone
  • Why have a dog and bark yourself?
  • Why pay for the cow when the milk is free?
  • the can of worms has been opened
  • whitewash