Beat around the bush: To avoid the main point.
Bite the bullet: To do something difficult or unpleasant.
Break a leg: To wish someone good luck.
Burn the midnight oil: To stay up late working.
Can’t judge a book by its cover: To not be able to tell what someone is like by their appearance.
Carrying the torch: To be the one to continue a tradition or cause.
Cut to the chase: To get to the main point.
Dancing around the issue: To avoid the main point.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: To not rely on one thing for success.
Eyes bigger than your stomach: To want more than you can handle.
Falling through the cracks: To be forgotten or overlooked.
Feeling under the weather: To feel sick.
Food for thought: Something to think about.
Get a taste of your own medicine: To experience the same thing you did to someone else.
Get off on the wrong foot: To start off on a bad note.
Give someone the cold shoulder: To ignore someone.
Hit the nail on the head: To say or do exactly what is needed.
Hold your tongue: To keep quiet.
In the dark: To not know something.
Jump on the bandwagon: To join in on something that is popular.
Keep your eyes peeled: To be watchful.
Kick the can down the road: To postpone dealing with something.
Let the cat out of the bag: To reveal a secret.
Let sleeping dogs lie: To not disturb something that is peaceful.
Living on borrowed time: To be alive when you should not be.
Loose lips sink ships: Careless talk can get people into trouble.
Make a long story short: To shorten a story.
No pain, no gain: You have to work hard to achieve something.
Off the beaten path: To be different from the norm.
Once in a blue moon: Very rarely.
On the ball: To be aware and ready.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire: To go from one bad situation to another.
Paint a picture: To describe something vividly.
Piece of cake: Something easy to do.
Pull the wool over someone’s eyes: To deceive someone.
Raining cats and dogs: To be raining very heavily.
Reading between the lines: To understand the hidden meaning of something.
Rob Peter to pay Paul: To take from one person to give to another.
Roll up your sleeves: To get ready to work.
See eye to eye: To agree with someone.
Shot in the dark: A guess.
Sink or swim: To succeed or fail.
Sleep like a log: To sleep very deeply.
Small potatoes: Something unimportant.
Speak of the devil: To mention someone who is just arriving or being thought about.
Spill the beans: To reveal a secret.
Square one: The beginning.
Storm in a teacup: A fuss about something unimportant.
Take the bull by the horns: To face a challenge head-on.
Thick as thieves: Very close friends.
Through thick and thin: Always, no matter what.
Time flies: Time passes quickly.
Two heads are better than one: It is better to have two people working on something than one.
Under the weather: Feeling sick.
Up in the air: Not decided yet.
When pigs fly: Never.