Broken Idioms ✶✶

• It’s just the shirt off a duck’s back
• A breath of cold water
• Blown out of hand
• In another news…
• Who cut the beans
• Go all or go home
• Like a chip off the duck's back
• Jack of both worlds
• It'll be a walk in the cake
• Meat of the potatoes
• Sleight of foot
• A blessing in the skies
• A photogenic memory
• I've got high friends all over the place
• We've got our ducks on the same page
• Not the sharpest bulb in the box
• Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day
• Sorry, that train has sailed
• See you soon, crocodile
• Like getting mud from a scone
• Quite a mouthfeel
• Keep an eye on the times
• Nothing’s ever what you thought it wasn’t.
• A fleet of engineering
• Rebel without applause
• Fuel for thought
• Passionately late.
• Today is your oyster.
• I’ve been brushing up on my teeth
• A watched clock never boils
• It’s not rocket surgery!
• We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it
• Mothers are the necessity of invention
• Be the bigger fish to fry
• Innocence killed the cat
• The power of positive drinking
• Don’t cook your eggs before they hatch
• Putting the cough before the hoarse
• Whatever chokes your goat
• That water was pitch cold
• I’m going out on a whim
• For all intensive purposes
• Cut to the point
• Get to the chase
• Naked to the invisible eye
• Great mimes act alike
• Cool your horses
• If you want to be an eagle, you shouldn’t fly with the turkeys
• About as safe as a canary in a cat mine
• Rome wasn’t built today
• Whatever totes your coat
• Don’t forget to wash your tees and bat your eyes
• All bird, no stone
• Stoning two birds at once
• Thanks, you’re a million