Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Winston Churchill

"Fit The Bill"......


To be helpful, useful, or what is needed in a certain situation at a certain time.

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"You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks"......
It's nearly impossible to teach some new skills or behaviors to someone who is set in their ways.

If you say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, you mean that it is often difficult to get people to try new ways of doing things, especially if they have been doing something in a particular way for a long time.

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"Like A Dog With A Bone"........


To be fixated on a particular topic. To refuse to stop talking or thinking about something.

"pies ci mordę lizał!" Polish for : Dog lick your face ... literally. (a humourous way to tell someone to get lost.

"Strike While The Iron's Hot" / "Make Hay While The Sun Shines"


To take advantage of favorable conditions; to make the most of an opportunity when it is available.

"Now You're Cooking With Gas"......



Doing something exactly right. To have success in a particular activity.

Sidebar: In the 1930's, the catch phrase Now you're cooking with gas, meaning “you're on the right track,” was heard on popular radio shows at the behest of the natural gas industry, as part of a quiet marketing push for gas-powered stoves.

"once bitten twice shy"



Means that once somebody has gotten hurt or had something go wrong, they will be afraid to try it again (especially in love).

" You don't miss your water till your well runs dry"

Means: you better start being nicer to me or I'm going to leave your ass high and dry over that cliff there yonder.

"When Pigs Fly"........


Pigs cannot fly. This often sarcastic idiom is commonly used to mean that whatever you are discussing will never happen.


Sidebar: A similar saying was first used in Scotland in the late 1500s and a version of which even appeared in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland.

"You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Pig's Ear".....



Be unable to turn something ugly or inferior into something attractive.

"spitting image"

When I looked this phrase up, here's what I got:

"as like the papists, as if they had beene spit out of their mouthes. So it would appear that the metaphor of spitting something out of one's mouth gradually shifted to become the very spit of (something), which then turned into spit and image, which in turn became spitten image and settled on spitting image...."


say what?

et tu Brute?

you too Brutus?

"You Can Lead A Horse To Water But You Can't Make Him Drink It"..........



You can give someone an advantage or provide them with an opportunity, but you can't force them to do something if they don't want to. Even favorable circumstances won't force one to do something one doesn't want to.

we do too in the mid-west

road less travelled

less popular choice

"don't hold your breath".......



Holding one’s breath back in expectation. Used to indicate that something is likely to take a long time.

"Get Someone's Goat"........



To annoy someone, to make a person lose his or her temper.

Sidebar: This term is definitely American in origin, but its precise provenance has been lost. H. L. Mencken was told that it came from the practice of putting a goat inside a skittish racehorse’s stall in order to calm it down. Removing the goat shortly before the race would upset the horse and reduce its chances of winning, a ruse supposedly planned by a gambler who had bet on the horse’s losing.

"I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle"



This idiom is used to express complete surprise, amazement or disbelief. An expression of surprise or amazement.

"Lined Up Like Cord-wood".........


Any items lined up in a neat and tidy way. Usually it a vast amount of one certain item.

"I Need That Like A Whole In My Head".......



A superfluous item, something one does not want at all. To have absolutely no need or use for something.

And yes of course that should of been "Hole"! Thanks to the many that pointed that out......:giggle:

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished".......


A sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In other words, those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their being helpful.

"Fix Someone's Wagon"...


To take retaliatory action against someone. Get even with someone, get revenge on someone, spoil someone's chance of success.

She hung the moon.
AND
She's the bee's knees.

Both mean that they're something fabulous.

"Early Bird Gets The Worm"..


One who arrives first has the best chance for success. Someone who is very active and alert in the early hours of the morning is apt to find success.

"Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch"......


You should not assume that what you think will happen will happen!

Cat got your tongue?
 

ruffle (one's) feathers

To annoy, irritate, or upset someone. ... Don't let her ruffle your feathers like that!

Cat got your tongue?
 

Definition of flip one's wig

: to become crazy or very angry
His mother flipped her wig when she saw what a mess he'd made.

Rub his nose in it...

What Biden should do to Trump....

cat got your tongue?
 

don't put all your eggs in one basket
phrase of egg
PROVERB
don't risk everything on the success of one venture.

Cat got your tongue?
 

Don't question the value of a gift. The proverb refers to the practice of evaluating the age of a horse by looking at its teeth. This practice is also the source of the expression “long in the tooth,” meaning old.

Cat got your tongue?
 

Origin of Stick in the Mud

This expression originated in the early 1700s. The idea behind is clear, alluding to a vehicle (at the time, a horse drawn carriage) whose wheels were stuck in the mud. Someone who is a stick in the mud doesn't want to try new things.

"Packed In Like Sardines".......


If a group of people are packed like sardines, they are standing very close together because there is not enough room in an enclosed space.

Very tightly or snugly packed together, especially in a small space; pressed tightly together in a way that is uncomfortable or unpleasant.

Cat got your tongue?
 

The phrase “paint the town red” most likely owes its origin to one legendary night of drunkenness. In 1837, the Marquis of Waterford—a known lush and mischief maker—led a group of friends on a night of drinking through the English town of Melton Mowbray. The bender culminated in vandalism after Waterford and his fellow revelers knocked over flowerpots, pulled knockers off of doors and broke the windows of some of the town’s buildings. To top it all off, the mob literally painted a tollgate, the doors of several homes and a swan statue with red paint. The marquis and his pranksters later compensated Melton for the damages, but their drunken escapade is likely the reason that “paint the town red” became shorthand for a wild night out. Still yet another theory suggests the phrase was actually born out of the brothels of the American West, and referred to men behaving as though their whole town were a red-light district.

"Don 't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth"




Don't find fault with something that has been received as a gift or favor. Don't be ungrateful when you receive a present, even if it's not exactly what you wanted.

"Have Egg On Your Face".........




To be very embarrassed because of something you said or did: look foolish.

"Shoot Yourself In The Foot".....



To damage or impede one's own plans, progress, or actions through foolish actions or words. Foolishly harm one's own agenda: cause yourself trouble by being stupid.

To beat around the bush.

Not wanting to give an outright opinion of your own.




Spill the beans. OR Let the cat out of the bag.

The secret is out.