- leave a sour taste in one's mouth
- take the shadow for the substance
- view through rose-colored glasses
- scare the living daylights out of
- take a leaf out of someone's book
- take a long walk off a short pier
- take a page out of someone's book
- wouldn't shout if a shark bit him
- send shivers down someone's spine
- use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
- talk softly and carry a big stick
- pull the wool over someone's eyes
- couldn't carry a note in a bucket
- throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
- have butterflies in one's stomach
- be able to count on one's fingers
- air one's dirty laundry in public
- have eyes bigger than one's belly
- seem like a good idea at the time
- keep a civil tongue in one's head
- throw one's cap over the windmill
- throw one's rattle out of the cot
- let the chips fall where they may
- kiss the hem of someone's garment
- like the sound of one's own voice
- beat one's swords into plowshares
- take matters into one's own hands
- carry one's heart on one's sleeve
- look beyond the end of one's nose
- look beyond the tip of one's nose
- work both ends against the middle
- take one's half out of the middle
- keep one's head below the parapet
- put a civil tongue in one's mouth
- knock the living daylights out of
- eat someone out of house and home
- look through rose-colored glasses
- walk softly and carry a big stick
- separate the sheep from the goats
- separate the wheat from the chaff
- lead someone down the garden path
- take the Browns to the Super Bowl
- take the browns to the super bowl
- have to do with the price of fish
- take the gilt off the gingerbread
- take the law into one's own hands
- play both ends against the middle
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- wipe the smile off someone's face
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.