Bust your balls: To harass with the intent to break one’s spirit
Busting your chops: To say things intended to harass
Can’t hold a candle to: To be far less competent or have far less skills than someone else
Cat bird seat: A highly advantaged position, to have it all
Chew the fat: To talk about unimportant things
Clean bill of health: To be found healthy
Clear as a bell: Cleary understood
Close, but no cigar: Nearly achieving success, but not quite
Cold turkey: To quit something abruptly
Cooking with gas: To be working fast, proceeding rapidly
In the crapper: in the toilet, soiled, hopelessly, irretrievable
Crocodile tears: Pretending to cry in an attempt to manipulate or exploit, and phony tears
Crossing the Rubicon: When a decisive and irrevocable step has been taken, to commit to a given course of action that permits no return to cross the Rubicon
Cut from the same cloth: to be similar, usually in behaviour
Dead as a door nail: To be dead with no chance for recovery
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched: Don’t be overconfident and assume success before you know the outcome of a venture
Down the hatch: Drink or eat
Down to the short strokes: Approaching the end of a long process
Down to the wire: Undecided until the end, at the last minute
Dressed to tea: Well dressed with attention to detail
Dressed to the nine: dressed flamboyantly, dresses well
Drop a dime: Make a phone call
At the eleventh hour: At the very last moment
Eyes are bigger than the stomach: When a person wants more than is good for them
Face the music: To accept the truth
For the love of pete: I am frustrated with this situation
