Some of my favorite idioms. Sorry I don’t have the author of them currently, and the context will have to be determined for each of them.

• Open the Kimono
• Always better to keep your pants on with a belt and suspenders
• Not even pregnant and already asking the sex
• When knee deep in alligators you need to drain the swamp
• When someone comes in your office with a Monkey; make sure they leave with the monkey
• Look a gift horse in the mouth
• Spend all our time chasing the hogs and never fix the fence
• Just because it’s an ugly baby doesn’t mean were not going to deliver it
• It only takes one doctor to deliver a baby
• Clean up after the elephant
• The most dangerous thing about being a life guard is saving someone else’s life
• A bird in one hand is worth two in the bush
• All stick and no carrot
• Tell me what time it is; don’t build me a watch
• The #1 rule of the wing walker is to make sure you have firm grasp in one hand before releasing the other
• There are lies and there are statistics, what is the difference?
• Catching a falling knife
• Iron fist in a velvet glove
• Move heaven and earth to get something done
• Fruit from the poison tree
• Say FU in 1000 words
• Can’t unring a bell
• Drowning in a tea-cup
• Gold ring in a pigs snout
• Bring a knife to a gun fight
• Hard to dance with a devil on your back
• Beat your swords into plowshares
• When x gets its prostate checked it’s y who gets tickled
• I like the dreams of the future rather than the history of the past
• Trash can of history
• They’re all pregnant and know one knows who the father is
• See the forest from the trees
• Be fruitful and multiply
• The harvest is plentiful but he laborers are few
• Like putting an anorexic on a diet
• Can’t Stop looking at the windsheild wipers and see where going
• A rut is only a few feet shallower than a grave.
• Adapted like a poisonous snake - looks the same - but when comes time to execute it can’t
• Sunshine is the best disinfectant
• Dumpster Fire
• Those who do not understand Autoconf are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
• No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy
• Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face
• There isn’t a cow on the ice. Meaning it’s not an emergency.
• Stand on the shoulders of giants
• Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. –Twain