• It’s like waving a red rag to a bull
• The world is your oyster
• It makes the blood boil
• Feeling like being in quicksand
• Feels as if the life jacket is deflating
• There is a light at the end of the tunnel
• Going to pieces
• Struggling to keep my head above water
• Scared to death
• As white as a ghost
• A heart of gold
• Yo-yo feelings
• Feel like a square peg in a round hole
• Jumping the gun
• You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink
• The grass is always greener on the other side
• Like father like son, or like mother like daughter
• No use locking the stable door once the horse has bolted
• We all don’t sing from the same hymn sheet
• A heart of stone
• Life is not a bowl of cherries
• Every cloud has a silver lining
• A rolling stone gathers no moss
• All that glitters is not gold
• The grass isn’t always greener on the other side
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
• Never judge a book by it’s cover
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A stitch in time saves nine
• Live every day as your last as one day it could be
• Never say never
• Read between the lines
• It’s not what you do but how you do it
• Grab the bull by the horns
• Rome wasn’t built in a day
• There are two sides to every story
• When one door closes another opens
• Let sleeping dogs lie
• A recipe for disaster
• Food for thought
• Fish out of water
• Plenty more fish in the sea
• Lightning never strikes in the same place twice
• Every dog has his day

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