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• Counting on it
• Green with envy
• Honest Injun
• Don't give up your day job
• The cotton belt
• It was like a circus
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• Take a licking and keep on ticking
• Whatever lifts your skirt
• A chink in the armour
• Against all hope
• Full of himself
• Be your own man
• You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
• Home is where the heart is
• Que sera, sera
• Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man health, wealthy and wise.
• He thinks he's shit on a stick but he's only a fart on a twig
• Put on the back burner
• Hit with an ugly stick
• Jumpy as peas on a hot griddle
• The powers that be
• Close enough for government work.
