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• Hear it on the grapevine

This idiom means 'to hear rumors' about something or someone.

• Hit the nail on the head

Do or say something exactly right

• Hit the sack/sheets/ hay

To go to bed.

• In the heat of the moment

Overwhelmed by what is happening at the moment.

• It takes two to tango

Actions or communications need more than one person

• Jump on the bandwagon

Join a popular trend or activity.

• Keep something at bay

Keep something away.

• Kill two birds with one stone

This idiom means, to accomplish two different things at the same time.

• Last straw

The final problem in a series of problems.

• Let sleeping dogs lie

- do not disturb a situation as it is - since it would result in trouble or complications.

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• Let the cat out of the bag

To share information that was previously concealed

• Make a long story short

Come to the point - leave out details

• Method to my madness

An assertion that, despite one's approach seeming random, there actually is structure to it.

• Miss the boat

This idiom is used to say that someone missed his or her chance

• Not a spark of decency

 No manners

• Not playing with a full deck

Someone who lacks intelligence.

• Off one's rocker

Crazy, demented, out of one's mind, in a confused or befuddled state of mind, senile.

• On the ball

When someone understands the situation well.

• Once in a blue moon

 Happens very rarely.

• Picture paints a thousand words

A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.

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• Piece of cake

A job, task or other activity that is easy or simple.

• Put wool over other people's eyes

This means to deceive someone into thinking well of them.

• See eye to eye

This idiom is used to say that two (or more people) agree on something.

• Sit on the fence

This is used when someone does not want to choose or make a decision.

• Speak of the devil!

This expression is used when the person you have just been talking about arrives.

• Steal someone's thunder

To take the credit for something someone else did.

• Take with a grain of salt

This means not to take what someone says too seriously.

• Taste of your own medicine

Means that something happens to you, or is done to you, that you have done to someone else

• To hear something straight from the horse's mouth

To hear something from the authoritative source.

• Whole nine yards

Everything. All of it.

• Wouldn't be caught dead

Would never like to do something

• Your guess is as good as mine

To have no idea, do not know the answer to a question

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➤A hot potato

Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are talking about and which is usually disputed

➤Costs an arm and a leg

This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

➤Cross that bridge when you come to it

Deal with a problem if and when it becomes necessary, not before.

➤Cry over spilled milk

When you complain about a loss from the past.

➤Curiosity killed the cat

Being Inquisitive can lead you into an unpleasant situation.

➤Cut corners

When something is done badly to save money.

➤Cut the mustard, possibly derived from "cut the muster"

To succeed; to come up to expectations; adequate enough to compete or participate

➤Devil's Advocate

To present a counter argument

➤Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched

Don't make plans for something that might not happen.

➤Give the benefit of the doubt

Believe someone's statement, without proof.

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