Answers:
- Time flies
- An ace up your sleeve
- Spill the beans
- Cat got your tongue
- Got the cat by the tail
- Kick the bucket
- Born with a silver spoon in the mouth
- Don’t carry all your eggs in one basket
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- Keep your cards close to your chest
- Nail on the head
- Loose screw
- Cold feet
- Something fishy
- Fish out of water
- Tie the knot
- Living in your shadow
- Piece of cake
- Bird brain
- Cherry on top
- Chalk & cheese
- Knock your socks off
- Red herring
- An earworm
- In a nutshell
- On a silver platter
- On the wings of time
You could have also found the following:
- Pull up your socks
- Rags to Riches
- Shadow of his former self
- Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
- Put your best foot forward
- Hard nut to crack
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Disagree with chalk and cheese.
Time waits for no man
Shoe is on the other foot
This is fun. I found several that you missed:
Crowing over something…
The Big Cheese
He has (something) coming out of his ears
The short end of the rope
At the end of his rope
Tied up in knots
This man IS a “figure of speech”
Time flies
We got “bald as a coot”, “hard cheese”, and “as full of holes as a Swiss cheese”, and thought the shadow was “his other half”, so there’s four more! Thanks, it was fun!
What about “walking on eggshells” and “the big cheese”
running ragged
running ragged
We had “cat by its tail” and “stiff upper lip”
Walking on egg shells