SAYINGS and Common Phrases in American English

A souvenir from The 80s Camp
7th, 8th and 9th December 2012:)

• Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched
• I’m blown away!
• Ignorance is bliss. What you don’t know won’t hurt you.
• What doesn’t kill you, make you stronger.
• Up shit creek without a paddle.
• Six of one, half a dozen the other.
• If it was a snake, it would have bitten you.
• You can’t see the woods for the trees.
• Shit happens.
• They are two peas in a pod.
• That is the last straw!
• Happy as a pig in shit.
• When the shit hits the fan.
• When it rains, it pours. ( good or bad)
• Is the Pope catholic? ( obvious)
• The actress said to the bishop! ( after a dirty line)
• Hungry as a horse
• It’s neck to neck ( very close)
• You can’t have the cake and eat it too.
• You’ve dug your own grave.
• All bark and no bite.
• To be a YES man
• He wouldn’t hurt a fly.
• Like a dog with a bone.
• I have ghandis flip flop in my mouth/ as dry as ghandis flip flop.
• It’s a dog eat dog world.
• You’ve made your bed, now sleep in it.
• Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
• The early bird gets the best worm.
• Idle hands are the devil’s playground.
• I’m gonna make like a tree and leave.
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack.
• To be over the moon.
• To be on cloud nine ( in love)
• Walking on sunshine.
• To be under the weather ( sick)
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• Home is where the heart is.
• Let bygones be bygones.
• Put your foot down ( to be stubborn)
• Put your money where your mouth is.
• Put the pedal to the metal ( a las chapas)
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it. (Take that!)
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
• Youre preaching to the choir.
• Put-luck: To have a pot-luck)
• You’re plaing with fire.
• To burn the bridges.
• He’s playing hardball ( very stern, stubborn)
• It’s as plain as the nose on your face. ( obvious)
• To hit the nail on the head
• Liar, liar pants on fire. ( for kids)
• As easy as a pie
• Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
• It gets under your skin.
• Walk a mile in another mans shoes.