A house divided against itself cannot stand
A la carte
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
A Mars a day helps you work rest and play
A nation of shopkeepers
A picture paints a thousand words
A place for everything and everything in its place
A plague on both your houses
A priori
A riddle wrapped up in an enigma
A rose is a rose is a rose
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
A thorn in the flesh
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
A1 at Lloyds
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Abide with me
About face
About turn
Above board
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absent without leave
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Accidentally on purpose
Ace in the hole
Achilles' heel
Acid test
Act of God
Action man 
Adam's ale
Aga saga
Against the grain
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
Aide-mémoir
Al fresco
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
All agog
All corners of the world
All good things come to he who waits
All present and correct
All singing, all dancing
All that glitters is not gold
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
All things must pass
All things to all men
All you need is love
All's well that ends well
Am I my brother's keeper?
Amber nectar
An albatross round his neck
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
And thereby hangs a tale
Angry young man
Ankle biter
Annus horribilis
Apple pie order
Apples and pears
April fool
Arse about face
As bald as a coot
As black as Newgate's knocker
As brown as a berry
As busy as a bee
As cold as any stone
As cool as a cucumber
As dead as a dodo
As easy as pie
As fit as a fiddle
As good luck would have it
As happy as a clam
As happy as Larry
As mad as a hatter
As mad as a march hare
As merry as the day is long
As nice as ninepence
As old as Methuselah
As old as the hills
As pleased as Punch
As pure as the driven snow
As queer as a nine bob note
As rich as Croesus
As right as ninepence
As you sow so shall you reap
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
At his wits end
At one fell swoop
At the end of his tether
Auld lang syne
Back seat driver
Back the field
Back to basics
Back to square one
Backroom boy
Bad egg
Bad hair day
Badgered to death
Bag and baggage
Baker's dozen
Balance of power
Balance of trade
Ball and chain
Ball is in your court
Balls to the wall
Bandy words - To
Baptism of fire 
Barking up the wrong tree
Barmy army
Barnet
Basket case
Bats in the belfry
Batten down the hatches
Battle royal
Be there for
Beast with two backs
Beat about the bush
Beat swords into ploughshares
Beat the retreat
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Beauty is only skin deep
Bed of roses
Bee in your bonnet
Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard
Been there, done that
Bees and honey
Bee's knees
Beetle browed
Behind every great man there's a great woman
Behind the eight ball
Bell, book and candle
Below the belt
Below the salt
Belt and braces
Belt up 
Best bib and tucker
Best laid schemes of mice and men
Bet your bottom dollar
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Between a rock and a hard place
Between two stools
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Beware the ides of March
Beyond our ken
Beyond the pale
Big Apple
Big cheese
Big Easy
Big in Japan
Big wig
Bill Stickers is innocent
Billy no mates
Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Bird of passage
Birds of a feather flock together
Bit of a do
Bite the bullet
Bite the dust
Bitter end
Black sheep of the family
Blast from the past
Blaze a trail
Blind leading the blind 
Blonde bombshell
Blood blister
Blood is thicker than water
Blot on the landscape
Blow a raspberry
Blow the whistle
Blow your mind
Blow your own trumpet
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks
Blue blood
Bo Peep
Boat Race
Bob's your uncle
Bog standard
Bolt from the blue
Bone up on
Booby prize
Booby trap
Booze cruise
Born again
Born within the sound of Bow Bells
Boss eyed
Bought the farm
Bowled a maiden over
Box and Cox
Bread of life
Break a leg
Brevity is the soul of wit
Bricks and mortar 
Bright eyed and bushy tailed
Brighton Pier
Bring home the bacon
Brown bread
Brownie points
Buckle down
Bun in the oven
Bunch of fives
Burning the midnight oil
Bury the hatchet
Bury your head in the sand
But screw your courage to the sticking-place
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me
Butchers
Butler did it
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
By and large
By gum
By hook or by crook
By the board - Go
By the book - Go
By the skin of your teeth
Call a spade a spade
Calling for Huey
Canteen culture
Carey Street - On
Carry coals to Newcastle
Carte blanche 
Catbird seat - In the
Catch 22
Cat's Cradle
Caught by the short and curlies
Caught with your pants down
Change your spots
Charm offensive
Cherchez la femme
Cherry ripe
Chew the cud
China plate
Chinless wonder
Chip on his shoulder
Chop and change
Chow down
Christmas box
Clear blue water
Climb onto the bandwagon
Close, but no cigar
Cock and bull story
Cogito ergo sum
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Cold shouldered
Cold turkey
Collywobbles
Come a cropper
Come hell or high water
Come on down 
Come the three corners of the world in arms
Come what come may
Comparisons are odorous
Cop an attitude
Cor blimey
Cordon bleu
Countenance more in sorrow than in anger
Counting sheep
Crack of doom
Crapper
Cream crackered
Crocodile tears
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Currant bun
Customer is always right
Cut and run
Cut off your nose to spite your face
Cut the mustard
Cut to the chase 
Daisy roots
Daniel come to judgement
Dark horse
Date rape
Davy Jones' locker
Dead cat bounce
Dead ringer
Designer dyke
Diamond in the rough
Diamond is forever
Dicky Dirt
Differently abled
Discretion is the better part of valour
Dish fit for the gods
Doctor Livingstone I presume
Doesn't know shit from Shinola
Dog and bone
Dog days
Dog in the manger
Dog's bollocks
Dog's breakfast
Done a runner
Done to a turn
Donkey's years
Don't change horses in midstream
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
Don't let the bastards grind you down
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth 
Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
Don't upset the apple-cart
Double Dutch
Double whammy
Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble
Down at heel
Down the pan
Down the tubes
Dressed up to the nines
Drink like a fish
Drop in the bucket
Dropping like flies
Drummed out of the army
Dust up
Eat drink and be merry
Eaten out of house and home
Economical with the truth
Eighty six
Elementary my dear Watson
Elephant's trunk
Elvis has left the building
End of story
Et tu, Brute
Ethnic cleansing
Even at the turning of the tide
Everybody out
Exceedingly well read
Exception which proves the rule
Excuse my French
Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog 
Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
Face like the back of a bus
Face the music
Faith will move mountains
Fall from grace
Fall guy
Fall on your sword
Fancy free
Far be it from me
Far from the madding crowd
Farmers
Fate worse than death
Feeding frenzy
Fellow traveller
Fiddling while Rome burns
Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
Field day
Fifth column
Fight the good fight
Fighting fit
Finger lickin good
First water - Of the
Fish or cut bait
Flash in the pan
Flesh and blood
Fly by the seat of your pants 
Fly on the wall
Foam at the mouth
Fool's gold
For crying out loud
For ever and a day
For everything there is a season
Forbidden fruit
Forgive them for they know not what they do
Four by two
Four corners of the earth
Frailty, thy name is woman
Friday afternoon car
Friend in need is a friend indeed
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
Frog and toad
Frog in the throat - Got a
From sea to shining sea
From strength to strength
Fruits of your loins
Full Monty
Full of piss and vinegar
Full tilt
Funny farm
Fuzzy wuzzy
Gad zooks
Game of two halves
Gee whizz
Generation X 
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration
George Raft
Get off on the wrong foot
Get the sack
Get thee behind me Satan
Get used to it
Ginger
Give up the ghost
Go and boil your head
Go by the board
Go off at half cock
Go out on a limb
Go postal
Go to hell in a handbasket
Go to work on an egg
God is dead
God rot them
Godfrey Daniel
Gone Dolally
Good in parts
Good men and true
Good Samaritan
Gordon Bennett!
Got my mojo working
Granny dumping
Grass
Green eyed monster 
Gregory Peck
Gry - Words ending in
Gung ho 
Hair stands on end - Makes your
Halcyon days
Half inch
Hampton
Happy clappy
Hard man is good to find
Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
Harp on
Have a Captain Cook
Have a nice day
Have an axe to grind
He must needs go that the Devil drives
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches
He will give the Devil his due
Hear hear
Heavy metal
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned
Het up
High five
High on the hog
His beard was as white as snow
History is bunk
Hit the ground running
Hit the hay
Hobson's choice
Hocus pocus
Hoi polloi
Hoist by your own petard 
Hold a candle to
Hold a torch
Hold your horses
Home alone
Hooray Henry
Horse and cart
Horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
Hot off the press
Houston, we have a problem
How are the mighty fallen
How now brown cow?
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
Hung, drawn and quartered
Hush puppies
I bear a charmed life
I have a dream
I have not slept one wink
I have nothing to declare but my genius
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
I spy with my little eye
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
If I had my druthers
If music be the food of love, play on
I'll go to the foot of our stairs
In a quandary
In an interesting condition
In like Flynn
In my mind's eye, Horatio
In someone's bad books
In the bag
In the buff
In the cart
In the club
In the limelight
In the offing
In the pink
In the red
In the twinkling of an eye
In trouble
In your face
Indian giver
Iron hoofn
Is the Pope Catholic?
Is the Pope Polish?
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
It beggar'd all description
It came like a bolt from the blue
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
It is meat and drink to me
It never rains but it pours
It's all grist to the mill
It's better to give than to receive
It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
It's that man again
Ivory towern 
Jam jar
Jam tomorrow
Jerry built
Jimmy Horner
Jimmy Riddle
Joanna
Jobs for the boys
Join the colours
Just deserts
Just in time
Katy bar the door
Keep body and soul together
Keep schtum
Keep up with the Joneses
Keep your chin up
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Keep your pecker up
Keep your powder dry
Khyber pass
Kick the bucket
Killed in a bar when he was only three
Kilroy was here
Kiss me Hardy
Kit and caboodle
Knee jerk reaction
Knock back
Knock off
Knock on wood
Know the ropes
Know which way the wind blows 
La dolce vita
Labour of love
Lager frenzy
Laid out in lavender
Lamb to the slaughter
Land of hope and glory
Lark about
Last but not least
Laugh like a drain
Lay it on with a trowel
Learn the ropes
Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
Left in the lurch
Leopard cannot change its spots
Less is more
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Let one thousand flowers bloom
Let the cat out of the bag
Let them eat cake
Let there be light
Let your hair down
Level playing field
Lick and a promise
Lick into shape
Life of Riley
Life's not all beer and skittles
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Like a moth to a flame 
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Like the Dickens
Lions led by donkeys
Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever
Live long and prosper
Living off the fat of the land
Living on borrowed time
Load of codswallop -A
Loaf of bread
Local derby
Lock stock and barrel
Loose cannon
Loose lips sink ships
Lord Fred
Lose your rag
Love is blind
Love of money is the root of all evil 
Main chance
Make a beeline for
Make haste
Make him an offer he can't refuse
Make my day
Make no bones about
Man after his own heart
Man does not live by bread alone
Man's got to do what a man's got to do
Man's inhumanity to man
Many are called but few are chosen
May you live in interesting times
McCoy real
Mea culpa
Meat and two veg
Meet your Waterloo
Men in suits
Menage a trois
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Mexican wave
Mickey Finn
Middle of the road
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Milk of human kindness
Mince pies 
Mind your p's and q's
Ministering angel shall my sister be
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
Moaning Minnie
Molotov cocktail
Montezuma's revenge
Monty full
More honoured in the breach than in the observance
Mouth watering
Moveable feast
Moving the goalposts
Much Ado about Nothing
Much of a muchness
Multitude of sins
Mumbo jumbo
Mum's the word
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
Mutt and Jeff
Mutt's nuts
My cup runneth over
My husband and I
My old china
My old Dutch
My salad days 
Nail your colours to the mast
Name and shame
Nasty, brutish and short
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
Neither here nor there
Nest egg
Never give a sucker an even break
Never knowingly undersold
Never never land
Never the twain shall meet
New kid on the block
Nip in the bud
No dice
No man is an island
No manager ever got fired for buying IBM
No more cakes and ale?
No names: no packdrill
No rest for the wicked
No room to swing a cat
North and south
Not playing with a full deck
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
Not tonight Josephine
Not worth a plugged nickel
Not worth a tinker's dam
Not worth the candle
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Now is the winter of our discontent 
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo
O ye, of little faith
Odds bodkins
Off the record
Off with his head
Oh, that way madness lies
Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen
Okay
Okey dokey
Old lang syne
Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names
On a wing and a prayer
On the dole
On the fiddle
On the QT
On the shoulders of giants
Once in a blue moon
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
One for the road
One over the eight
Order of the boot
Orson
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sorts
Out of the jaws of death
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Over the top
Overpaid, oversexed, and over here
Oxford scholarn
Oxo cube 
Paddle your own canoe
Paint the town red
Paper tiger
Pass the buck
Pearls before swine
Pears for your heirs
Peeping Tom
Peg out
Pen and ink
Penny drops
Penny for your thoughts
Peter out
Physician heal thyself
Pie in the sky
Pig in a poke
Pig's ear
Pin money
Pipe down
Pipe dream
Piping hot
Plague o' both your houses
Plates of meat
Play by ear
Play it again Sam
Play the race card 
Plug and play
Point Percy at the porcelain 
Politically correct
Point to point
Pommy
Pony and trap
Pop goes the weasel
Pork pies
POSH - Port out, starboard home
Pot calling the kettle black
Pour oil on troubled waters
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
Power dressing
Powers that be
Praying at the porcelain altar
Press into service
Prick up your ears
Primrose path
Pull out all the stops
Pull the plug
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Punching above his weight
Push the envelope
Put a sock in it
Put a spanner in the works
Put on the wooden overcoat
Put on your thinking cap
Put paid to
Put the wood in the hole
Put your back up
Put your best foot forward
Put your nose out of joint
Pyrrhic victory 
Quality of mercy is not strained
Quality time
Queen's English
Queer Street
Queer the pitch
Quicker than lager turns to piss
Quid pro quo 
R in the monthre's an
Rabbit and pork
Rack and ruin
Raining cats and dogs
Raining stair rods
Raise Cain
Raspberry tart
Rat arsed
Read the riot act - To
Real McCoy
Red herring
Red letter day
Red rag to a bull
Red tape
Religion is the opiate of the masses
Rhyme nor reason
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Richard the Third
Ring aring of roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
Ring down the curtain
Ring fencing
Ring the changes
Riot of colour
Rise and shine
Road rage
Rock and boulder
Rock and roll
Root of the matter
Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Rosie Lea
Rough diamond
Route one
Royal We
Rub a dub
Rule of thumb
Rum do
Run amuck
Run out of steam 
Sacred cow
Safe pair of hands
Safe sex
Salt of the earth
San fairy Ann
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
Saved by the bell
Savoir faire
Say goodnight Gracie
Scarper
Scot free
Screw your courage to the sticking place
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy
Sea change
Sealed with a loving kiss
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Sent to Coventry
Seven twenty-four
Sex and shopping
Sexton Blake
Shake a leg
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Shanks' pony
Share and share alike
Sherman tanks
Ship shape and Bristol fashion 
Shit for brains
Shit hits the fan
Shoot through
Short arms, long pockets
Short shrift
Shot across the bows
Shot in the arm
Shot in the dark
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Shut your cake hole
Skin and blister
Sleep tight
Small step for man, a giant leap for mankind
Smallest room in the house
Smiling like a Cheshire cat
Smoke and mirrors
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
Sold down the river
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men, have mediocrity thrust upon them
Something for the weekend sir?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
Son of a gun
Sorry sight 
Sour grapes
Space, the final frontier
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Spend a penny
Spill the beans
Spitting image
Sport of kings
Square meal
Stand and deliver
Stand up guy
Star crossed lovers
Status quo
Steal a march
Sticky wicket
Stiffen the sinews
Stone's throw
Stool pigeon
Straight from the horse's mouth
Straining at the leash
Strike a deal (or bargain)
Stump up
Stumped
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Survival of the fittest
Suspension of disbelief
Swan song
Sweet Fanny Adams
Take a back seat
Take down a peg or two
Take the bit between your teeth
Take with a pinch of salt
Taken aback
Taters
Tea leaf
Technicolor yawn
Teflon president
That's all folks
The Andrew
The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind
The apple of his eye
The back of beyond 
The buck stops here
The call of the wild
The course of true love never did run smooth
The Devil take the hindmost
The die has been cast
The face that launched a thousand ships
The female of the species is more deadly then the male
The full monty
The game is afoot
The game is up
The girl with colitis goes by
The King is dead, long live the King
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
The live-long day
The love that dare not speak its name
The moving finger writes 
The Real McCoy
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
The sun never sets on the British Empire
The tail wagging the dog
The thin red line
The third degree
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable
The wages of sin is death
The whole nine yards
The wind of change is blowing through this continent
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics
There is no alternative
Thereby hangs a tale
There's a bathroom on the right
There's method in my madness
There's more than one way to skin a cat
There's one born every minute
Things that go bump in the night
Third time's a charm
Thirty for now
This is the short and the long of it
This is very midsummer madness
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle 
Thou shalt not kill
Though last, not least in love
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
Three sheets to the wind
Three strikes and you are out
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Ticked off
Tickle the ivories
Tie the knot
Till the cows come home
Tilting at windmills
Titfer
Tits up
To be or not to be, that is the question
To boldly go where no man has gone before
To boot
To cast the first stone
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
Tom foolery
Tomorrow is another day
Top notch
Touchy feely
Tout de suite
Tower of strength
Trick or treat
Trouble and strife
Twelve good men and true
Twenty three skidoo
Two and eight
Two cents worth 
Unacceptable face of capitalism
Uncle Dick
Uncle Ned
Under the greenwood tree
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Up a blind alley
Up the apples and pears
Van Gogh's ear for music
Veg out
Vis-a-vis
Vorsprung Durch Technik 
Walk the plank
Wannabee
Way moby
We are a grandmother
We are not amused
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
We have seen better days
Wear your heart on your sleeve
Wearing the trousers
Weasel words
Well heeled
Wet behind the ears
What a piece of work is man
What are you like?
What God has joined together let no man put asunder
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
What's up Doc?
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
When the shit hits the fan
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Where there's muck there's brass
While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
Whipping boy
Whistle and flute
White bread 
White elephant 
Whiter shade of pale
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure
Whole nine yards
Wild and woolly
Willy nilly
Win one for the Gipper
Wing it
Woe is me
Word association football
Word for word
Word in your shell-like
Writing is on the wall 
You are what you eat
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
Your money or your life
Your name is mud
You've never had it so good
Zero tolerance
Zigger zigger
