• angel of death
• after taste
• almost die laughing
• at opposite ends of the table
• anchor-hold
• airtight
• antidote
• ablaze
• assume a mask
• adrift

• buy what someone is selling
• burst one's chains
• built on sand
• bang one's own drum
• bloomer
• burn money
• become hearing impaired
• beachhead
• beat the drum
• bread and circuses

• corset
• cash cow
• change gear
• come into focus
• complete the document
• cast ~ under a spell
• card castle
• colorize
• call for a time-out
• chainless

• dead horse
• dagger pointed at the heart of
• drive a wedge between
• drive a nail in one's coffin
• do someone's dirty work
• dance to the tune of
• deliver a knockout blow
• default dominoes
• down for the count
• do the dirty work for

• ecosystem
• electronics lab
• earthquake
• ember
• easy in one's skin
• eat what one kills
• easy pill to swallow
• early bloomer
• elbow one's way into
• excoriation

• free swinger
• fathom
• flat earth believer
• flyspeck
• fizzle
• flying colors
• follow the beaten track
• firestorm
• fray
• foothold

• get into deep waters
• go the way of
• gallant adventure
• get bigheaded
• get in the ring
• give a one-two punch
• go bail for
• game of chicken
• gratin
• get into deep water

• have mush for brains
• hammer a nail in one's coffin
• have zero visibility
• have two strikes on one
• hurdle
• hand someone ~ on a silver platter
• Harpy
• have two strikes against one
• have ~ in one's pocket
• howl at the moon

• intimate part
• in the wild
• in the same oven
• in a bad light
• indispensable player
• in the same club
• iron grip
• inundation
• in deep water
• inexhaustible gold mine

• jugular
• jigsaw
• journey through school

• kiss the ground
• know the buttons to push
• kid's stuff
• keep one's finger on the pulse
• keep pulse on
• keep one's powder dry
• knockout blow
• known quantity
• kick in the head
• keep the pedal to the metal

• look back over one's shoulder
• like a cat with a dish of cream
• live with blinders on
• lockstep
• look for four-leaf clovers
• long arm
• long sight
• lifetime ago
• large reservoir of
• low-hanging fruit

• mend a broken fence
• move the needle
• mother
• mental battery
• million miles away
• manacle
• monarch
• mop someone's brow
• move up a rung on the ladder
• milk ~ to the last drop

• narrow house
• new broom
• not a get-out-of-jail-free card
• nimble-fingered
• nuclear option
• narrow bed
• nightingale
• nudge someone into
• nudge someone in the ribs

• owl
• orbit around
• on a tight string
• off the scale
• opiate of the masses
• open the spigot on
• opium of the people
• one-size-fits-all
• on a lee shore
• open one's eyes

• pants on fire
• pull a thorn from a lion's paw
• pale in comparison to
• pat someone's back
• pale beside
• put up bail for
• put ~ on the scrap
• public face of a company
• pivot
• pressure point

• quarrel with one's bread and butter
• question mark

• run the wheels off
• reap a harvest
• row against the wind
• reckless gamble
• reach for the stars
• redolent
• revolving door
• Rosetta stone for deciphering
• red rag
• roof over one's head

• sticky mess
• smoke screen
• swamp
• stretched thin
• small change
• stand close to
• see a wolf
• silk stocking
• shot in the arm
• strike a sour note

• turn off the spigot on
• thread the needle
• take a helicopter ride
• top of the ladder
• take in a reef
• turbocharge
• toot one's own horn
• throw the handkerchief to
• throw in the towel
• take the hard road

• unbridgeable
• unshackle
• up a blind alley
• use the nuclear option
• unwitting pawn
• unfiltered lens
• upas

• vampirism
• voice of a company
• Viking funeral
• veil of pessimism
• voice of an organization
• voice of the government

• walking wallet
• walking powder keg
• walled garden
• warrior
• with folded arms
• with one's arms folded
• wag one's tail
• whole basket of eggs
• wait for the dust to settle
• worlds apart from