- 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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