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

[MikeNewYork]

All dressed up and nowhere to go.

 

[Tarheel]

Comparing apples to oranges.

 

[Amigos4]

Time to pay the piper

 

[Tdol]

Never a rose without a/the prick

 

[MikeNewYork]

A rose is a rose.

 

[Amigos4]

Ace in the hole

 

[emsr2d2]

A rose between two thorns.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Every dog has lts day.

 

[Amigos4]

A skunk at the garden party.

 

[Tarheel]

Get off your high horse!

 

[Tarheel]

Food for thought.

 

[Tarheel]

Fill in the blanks.

 

[Tarheel]

Birds of a feather flock together.

 

[Tdol]

A feather in your cap

 

[MikeNewYork]

A pig in a poke.

 

[Amigos4]

A bee in your bonnet.

 

[Tdol]

Ants in your pants

 

[Amigos4]

"That makes as much sense as a screen door on a submarine."

 

[Tdol]

As useful as a chocolate teapot/fire-guard

 

[Tarheel]

Biting off more than you can chew.

When Napoleon invaded Russia he bit off more than he could chew. When Japan started a war with the United States it bit off more than it could chew.