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 * 15 minutes of fame
 * A feather in your cap
 * A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
 * A picture is worth a thousand words
 * A rising tide lifts all boats
 * A rolling stone gathers no moss
 * A stone's throw away
 * Achilles' heel
 * Adage
 * Afghan proverbs
 * After Saturday Comes Sunday
 * All that glitters is not gold
 * All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
 * All's Well That Ends Well
 * An apple a day keeps the doctor away
 * Anti-proverb
 * Aphorism
 * Apples and oranges
 * As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
 * As the crow flies
 * Average Joe
 * Back-seat driver
 * Bald–hairy
 * Bang for the buck
 * Barking up the wrong tree
 * Bed of roses
 * Between Scylla and Charybdis
 * Between the devil and the deep blue sea
 * Black sheep
 * Bless your heart
 * Blind men and an elephant
 * Blood is thicker than water
 * Blood, toil, tears, and sweat
 * Bread and butter (superstition)
 * Break a leg
 * Buck passing
 * Bum rushing
 * Bum steer
 * Busybody
 * Call a spade a spade
 * Carrot and stick
 * Cart before the horse
 * Castle doctrine
 * Cat and mouse
 * Catch-22 (logic)
 * Catchphrase
 * Cheating death
 * Chinaman's chance
 * Chink in one's armor
 * Chip on shoulder
 * Cliché
 * Cloak and dagger
 * Cloud cuckoo land
 * Cold shoulder
 * Colloquialism
 * Crocodile tears
 * Cry Wolf
 * Curiosity killed the cat
 * Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back
 * Cutting off the nose to spite the face
 * Dark horse
 * Dead ringer (idiom)
 * Death and taxes (idiom)
 * Devil's advocate
 * Die with your boots on
 * Don't cross the bridge until you come to it
 * Don't judge a book by its cover
 * Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
 * Down Under
 * Dressing down
 * Duck test
 * Each One Teach One
 * Eating crow
 * Elbow grease
 * Elephant in the room
 * Embarrassment of riches
 * Even a worm will turn
 * Exception that proves the rule
 * Feet of clay
 * Filipino proverbs
 * Flogging a dead horse
 * Fly in the ointment
 * Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
 * Foot the bill
 * Fortune favours the bold
 * Forty winks
 * Freudian slip
 * Fruit of the poisonous tree
 * Fulani proverbs
 * Get a life (idiom)
 * Get the hell out of Dodge
 * Getting the wind knocked out of you
 * Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
 * Go proverb
 * God helps those who help themselves
 * Going postal
 * Grain of salt
 * Hair's breadth
 * Ham it up
 * Have a nice day
 * Head start (positioning)
 * Heebie-jeebies (idiom)
 * Hobson's choice
 * Hoist with his own petard
 * Hold your horses
 * Holy cow (expression)
 * Houston, we have a problem
 * How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
 * Humble pie
 * I know it when I see it
 * Idiom
 * Idiot proof
 * If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
 * Illegitimi non carborundum
 * Indian giver
 * Is the glass half empty or half full?
 * Isaac Watts
 * It ain't over till the fat lady sings
 * It takes a village
 * Jack of all trades, master of none
 * John Bradford
 * Judgment of Solomon
 * Jumping from the frying pan into the fire
 * Justice delayed is justice denied
 * Kashmiri Proverbs
 * Keeping up with the Joneses
 * Kick the bucket
 * Kick the cat
 * Learning the hard way
 * Lion's share
 * Lions led by donkeys
 * List of proverbial phrases
 * Live and Let Live
 * Live by the sword, die by the sword
 * Loose lips sink ships
 * Lugbara proverbs