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

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It floats my boat.
 

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Take it with a grain of salt.
 

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In BrE, that's "... with a pinch of salt."
 

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back to the salt mines
 

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pardon my French
 

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Keep the faith.
 

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one swallow doesn't make a summer
 

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the devil finds work for idle hands
 

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two peas in a pod
 
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