Idioms or similar symbolic phrases

[applecruncher]

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

 

[Sassycakes]

A fool and his money are soon parted.

 

[Sunny]

Liar, Liar, pants on fire!

 

[applecruncher]

He'll stab you in the back.

 

[Sunny]

Two left feet.

 

[applecruncher]

That decision might come back to bite you.

 

[Kaila]

Laughter is contagious.

(I will add, so is kindness, we hope!)

 

[applecruncher]

Does not suffer fools gladly.

 

[tinytn]

Open mouth , Insert foot

 

[jerry old]

Get a hold't of yourself
(My father's expression when his children were acting out; I heard it quite often.)

 

[jerry old]

If you run with dogs....

(We know English is a difficult language to learn, can you imagine being a new English speaking person and running into these idioms.)

 

[applecruncher]

Went for the jugular.

 

[Sunny]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

[applecruncher]

Take the bait.

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Hook, line, and sinker.

 

[Kaila]

Stop dancing around the subject.

 

[applecruncher]

Beating a dead horse.

Straight from the horse's mouth.

Trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

 

[jerry old]

That dog won't hunt.

 

[Sunny]

That ship has sailed.

 

[applecruncher]

Ants in your pants.

 

[tinytn]

At a loss for words .

 

[Kaila]

At a crossroads.

 

[Sunny]

Dead in the water

 

[applecruncher]

Face the music.

 

[Kaila]

...swimming against the tide.....

 

[Sunny]

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.