Too dumb to even breathe? Time to smarten up! With these classic idioms bouncing around your skull, everyone will be impressed.
This authoritative list was assembled after many grueling sessions of eating rare books in the Denison library.
- Rubbing Nutmeg in the wound
- This is the best thing since sliced egg baskets!
- Curiosity killed the dead horse.
- I am going to judge this book by its cover, all day long
- Going “cold chicken”
- Killing two birds, with one bush
- Rocket science is NOT hard
- To make a short story long…
- Being “on Cloud Five”
- Like finding hay in a needlepile!
- At the drop of Rome being built in
- one day
- There are 9 ways to kill a cat
- Fortune favors an arm and leg
- Don’t look a gift horse in the eyes—you’ll anger it
- If you can’t beat a dead horse, join ‘em!
- The sword is mightier than the pen because it is sharper and heavier
- When birds fly
- Best thing since sliced dead horse
- Between a rock and a glass ceiling
- Trying to put a square hole in a round peg
- If it’s too hot in the kitchen, get some ice!
- Dropping like fries
- The straw that killed the dead horse
- All is fair in love and baseball
- Plenty of piss in the sea!
- Do unto others as you would have others do unto a dead horse
- Tits for tat
- Wild Moose Chase
- Strike while the dead horse is hot
- You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your nose in public or you’ll get weird looks
- The early bird gets the other fish in the sea
- Let the cat out of the dead horse
- Give the devil an inch and he will cum
- Hi Bye, Low Sell
- Take it with a grain of sand
- I’m at the edge of my fence!
- An apple a day keeps the elephant in the room
- A quarter saved is a penny saved
- You should look a gift horse in the mouth (because you are a horse dentist)
- Life is a highway to hell or high water
- A snowy balls effect
- It’s a poor worksman who blames his whole nine yards
- You can lead a dead horse to water, but you can’t make him tango
- Your guess is NOT as good as mine
- Don’t cry over spilt water!
- No pain, less pain
- Time flies when you’re killing horses!
- The pot calling the kettle corn
- The apple doesn’t fall far from the old block
- We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it
- You can’t make an omelet without killing a few horses
- Beating the dead elephant in the room
- It’s raining dead horses
- The fleek will inherit the earth