I have collected come English idioms starting with "Don't"

[Kharkhun]

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I have collected some English idioms starting with "Don't". Are there any further that you can suggest me?(That start with "don't) or is any reliable site that gathered these idioms?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I'd add 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.' to your list

I've never come across 1. or 11. before. They don't sound very English to me; more like translations.

 

[bhaisahab]

Number 11: http://www.itma.ie/inishowen/song/another_mans_wedding_paddy_doherty

 

[5jj]

It may have been used in a song or two, but I can't find many examples of 'go/come between the bark and the tree' on the ineternet, so it doesn't seem to be commonly used. Like Roman, I have never come across it before,

 

[bhaisahab]

Perhaps it's more common in Ireland.

 

[SoothingDave]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don't_take_any_wooden_nickels

Don't take any wooden nickels.

 

[Kharkhun]

One of my colleague claims that my picture contents are considered only as proverbs not idioms. Do you confirm his claim?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

There's is a bit of everything in the list. Your colleague is perhaps right about some of them.

They are not all used exclusively with "don't" either.
To rock the boat, to wash one's dirty linen in public and to put the cart before the horse are definitely idiomatic.

 

[MikeNewYork]

#14 is not an idiom. Most of the others are proverbs and idioms. It all depends on whether the meaning can be determined only from the words themselves.

 

[Tdol]

7 is often used without don't; we can say that someone burns the candle at both ends. It's a description of behaviour and is usually listed in the positive form:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/burn+the+candle+at+both+ends
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/burning-the-candle-at-both-ends.html

Like Roman55 and 5jj, I haven't heard 1 or 11 before.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Don't let the bedbugs bite.
Don't hold your breath.
Don't burn your bridges.
Don't get mad; get even.
Don't get me wrong.
Don't get smart with me.
Don't give me any of your lip.