Idioms or similar symbolic phrases

[Kaila]

we were playing phone tag....

 

[applecruncher]

Cat that swallowed the canary

 

[Kaila]

It's a cat and mouse game.

 

[joybelle]

It takes one to know one.

 

[Kaila]

happy as a lark

 

[joybelle]

In it to win it.

 

[Kaila]

slow and steady wins the race

 

[joybelle]

First in, best dressed.

 

[Kaila]

Put your best foot forward.

 

[applecruncher]

Two left feet

 

[Sunny]

I saw the light

 

[Kaila]

One step forward....two steps back.

 

[applecruncher]

Nervous as a cat in a room of rocking chairs.

 

[Sunny]

Crazy as a loon

 

[Kaila]

I'm going in circles, trying to get things done.

 

[Kaila]

I called to talk with a person, to get some info , but I got.....

a phone tree

 

[tinytn]

a phone tree?

Work one's fingers to the bone.

 

[Kaila]

They ate me out of house and home.

 

[Sunny]

She's off in la-la land.

 

[Kaila]

Do you mean, she'd forget to take her head with her, if it wasn't attached?

 

[joybelle]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 

[Sunny]

The early bird gets the worm. Or the early worm gets the bird?

 

[joybelle]

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

 

[Kaila]

She's been..... Burning the candle at both ends

 

[joybelle]

Once burnt, twice shy.