What are some of your favorite or most-used idioms?

[charliedeut]

To be beating/flogging a dead horse (a waste of time).

 

[Amigos4]

To have Van Gogh’s ear for music.

 

[charliedeut]

To get on like a house on fire

 

[Amigos4]

keep it under your hat

 

[MikeNewYork]

To keep things under the radar.

 

[emsr2d2]

To have a good face for radio.

 

[Amigos4]

flying under the radar

 

[Tdol]

slip through the net

 

[Amigos4]

off the top of your head

 

[andrewberlin]

the business end - don't stand there, that's the business end, come here where it's safe.

 

[GoesStation]

Sitting on top of the world.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Keep your shoulder to the wheel and your nose to the grindstone.

 

[Amigos4]

screwed if you do, screwed if you don't

 

[charliedeut]

A fly on the wall

 

[Tdol]

burn your boats

 

[GoesStation]

The walls have ears

 

[MikeNewYork]

Keep up with the Joneses.

 

[Tarheel]

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

 

[Tarheel]

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

 

[Tarheel]

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

If there are two people telling you something it might cause confusion even if they are telling you the same thing.