Sayings and Proverbs

• Famous last words : being too confident

• First come, first served
• You can never tell
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Easier said than done
• The more the merrier
• So far, so good
• Out of sight, out of mind
• A small world
• The pot calling the kettle black
• Money talks
• Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place)
• Let sleeping dogs lie
• Practice makes perfect
• No news in good news
• The end justifies the means
• Two wrongs don’t make a right
• Two heads are better than one
• Blood is thicker than water
• Actions speak louder than words
• Eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth)
• Charity begins at home
• Beauty is only skin-deep
• Better late than never
• Better safe than sorry
• Live and let live
• You’re only young once
Idioms and Expressions
• A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
• Able/can to breath (easily/freely) again
• Able/can do something blindfolded / with eyes closed
• Able to take only so much
• Above and beyond (the call of duty)
• Above average/par
• Above law/suspicion
• Absent without leave
• Absence makes heart grows fonder
• Accidents will happen
• Acclimatize
• Accidently-on-purpose
• According to all accounts
• Accept the blame
• Achilles' heel
• At all cost
• Add insult to injury
• Against the clock
• Against all odds
• After all is said and done
• All roads lead to Rome
• Always chasing rainbows
• Attune sb/sth to sb/sth
• At the drop of a hat
• At/on someone’s doorstep (lay/put)
• As the twig is bent, so it the tree inclined
• Appearances can be deceiving
• Angry enough to chew nails/spit fire/rivits
• Be my guest