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.