I’ve always been interested in sayings and many years ago started making a list of common phrases like, “You’re ruffling my feathers.” So, I looked it up and read that an idiom/saying is a short well-known expression — a pithy remark of wisdom and truth or general advice.

So without further adieu, here’s my list of 280 pithy remarks. Let me know what you think! If you have a saying to add or, if, in your view, those listed below need to be amended, send me an email at [email protected]. Take a look,

Go ahead and read; stop and smell the roses…

1. You’re ruffling my feathers

2. Water under the bridge

3. It’s water off a duck’s back

4. Early bird gets the worm

5. I wear my heart on my sleeve

6. Penny saved is a penny earned

7. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

8. You’re rubbing me the wrong way

9. Best thing since sliced bread

10. It’s a double-edged sword

11. It’s not over until the fat lady sings

12. Go big or go home

13. Six of one, half a dozen of the other

14. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

15. He cried “Crocodile tears”

16. Fake it until you make it

17. Don’t judge a book by its cover

18. You never know until you try

19. Home is where the heart is

20. Two is a gathering, three is a party

21. It’s the luck of the draw

22. That’s my stomping ground

23. Cool your jets

24.Take a chill pill

25. I’m on cloud nine

26. All’s fair in love and war

27. Squeaky wheel gets the grease

28. All hat and no cattle

29. Butter my buns and call me a biscuit

30. I’ve just scratched the surface

31. It’s raining cats and dogs

32. It’s like capturing lightning in a bottle

33. Fresh out of the gate

34. Know when to hold them, know when to fold them

35. I’m all in

36. Take it or leave it

37. Where there’s a will there’s a way

38. Winner winner chicken dinner

39. It’s right up my ally

40. Never know until you try

41. You’re on a death march

42. Your skating on thin ice

43. Don’t take any wooden nickels

44. They’ve seen better days

45. Up and at ’em

46. It’s a racket

47. In a pinch

48. I plead the 5th

49. The pot calling the kettle black

50. A watched pot never boils

51. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

52. What goes around comes around

53. Par for the course

54. War is hell

55. It’s not in the cards for you

56. My bad

57. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere

58. You hit pay dirt

59. You hit the jackpot

60. Get them while they’re hot

61. It all works out in the end

62. It all comes out in the wash

63. The whole nine yards

64. The high tide raises all boats

65. It takes two to tango

66. Fit to be tied

67. It’s now or never

68. Never say die

69. Dive in

70. Great minds think alike

71. Two heads are better than one

72. Let bygones be bygones

73. Live in let live

74. Everything’s big in Texas

75. Get your act together

76. Break a leg

77. A man of few words

78. He wears many hats

79. Two wrongs don’t make a right

80. Killed two birds with one stone

81. Stitch in time saved nine

82. If you marry for money, you’ll end up earning every penny

83. Money can’t buy you love

84. Heard it through the grapevine

85. Get your head in the game

86. Not on my watch

87. Bet your bottom dollar

88. You’ll never hear the end of it

89. Does that float your boat

90. Throw Down the gauntlet

91. Draw a line in the sand

92. That’s where I draw the line

93. Stop and smell the roses

94. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

95. That’s a recipe for disaster

96. Put that in your pipe and smoke it

97. Let’s blow this Popsicle stand

98. Famous last words

99. Two tacos short of a combination platter

100. Not the sharpest tool in the shed

101. Not the brightest star in the sky

102. Chock-full of it

103. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink

104. The apple doesn’t fall far from a tree

105. Chip off the old block

106. Get back in the ring

107. You’ve been put thought the ringer

108. Pull your self up by your bootstraps

109. Walk a mile in someone’s shoes

110. You don’t know the half of it

111. Don’t let a black cat cross your path

112. Can’t have your cake and eat it too

113. Cat got your tongue

114. Take a trip to crazy town

115. No matter where you go, there you are

116. Bite your tongue

117. That’s a slice of life

118. Cheaters never prosper

119. Look at the glass half full

120. When one door closes another door opens

121. Necessity is the mother of invention

122. When God closes a door he opens a window somewhere

123. He had me in stitches

124. Stick to your guns

125. We’re on the home stretch

126. I’m standing my ground

127. I’m putting my best put forward

128. Hate to be the bad new bear

129. You can’t go wrong

130. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt

131. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

132.Slice of life

133. The writings on the wall

134. Beating a dead horse

135. There’s a bun in the oven

136. That’s the cherry on top

137. The frosting on the cake

138. Like a fat kid in a candy shop

139. You dodged the bullet

140. Bull in a china shop

141. Until the cows come home

142. You can’t put a square peg in a round hole

143. Dead as a doornail

144. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

145. Circle the wagons

146. Aim for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars

147. Mother knows best

148. Too many cooks in the kitchen

149. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians

150. Save the best for last*

151. Your barking up the wrong tree

152. Don’t shoot the messenger

153. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar

154. Don’t toot your own horn

155. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

156. All hands on deck

157. He is chasing his own tail

158. He knows where the bones are buried

159. If this vans a-rockin’ don’t bother nocking

160. She’s got a bee in her bonnet

161. Don’t get you panties in a wad

162. Up a creek without a paddle

163. It’s never too late to try

164. Count your blessings

165. It’s neither here nor there

166. Putting salt in the wound

167. There are other fish in the sea

168. Meet me halfway

169. That’s not in my wheelhouse

170. Fits like a glove

171. Think outside the box

172. The suspense is killing me

173. An eye for an eye

174. Turn the other cheek

175. I’m living on the edge

176. It’s a stone’s throw away

177. Where’s the fire

178. So far so good

179. Going buck-naked

180. Balls to the wall

181. Circling back

182. This doesn’t add up

183. More often than not

184. Money doesn’t sleep

185. Few and far between

186. Jumping on the bandwagon

187. Words of wisdom

188. It’s within your reach

189. Keep me in the loop

190. I’ve crossed the Rubicon

191. Rats a million

192. Fit as a fiddle

193. He’s got my goat

194. Shut the front door

195. Sharp as a tack

196. Speak of the devil

197. The cat’s meow

198. Skeletons in the closet

199. Ships that pass in the night

200. Mind your p’s and q’s

201. Mad as a hatter

202. At 6s 7s

203. Horse a different color

204. Shoes on a different foot

205. Birds of a feather

206. The lions share

207. Any port in the storm

208. Long in the tooth

209. Wet behind the ears

210. Hide ones light behind a bushel

211. Cut off your nose to spite your face

212. Throw the baby out with the bathwater

213. That blew my mind

214. This is how I roll

215. Look what the cat drug in

216. That’s a taste of her own medicine

217. When pigs fly

218. Catch you on the flip side

219. Don’t bust my chops

220. Don’t end on a bad note

221. Cross your T’s and dot your I’s

222. March to the beat of your own drum

223. If I told you I’d have to kill you

224. Roll with the punches

225. Running on empty

226. Left a sour taste in my mouth

227. I’m on tenterhooks

228. It’s not rocket science

229. I’m on pins and needles

230. I can’t wait until I’m not a metal mouth anymore!

231. Take it with a grain of salt.

232. I feel under the weather

233. Just a penny for your thoughts

234. That was the last straw!

235. I’m also on the horns of a dilemma

236. Why you just sittin’ there like a bump on a log?

237. You’re going down

238. For the love of Pete

239. Fiddlesticks

240. You got my back

241. Gravy train

242. Heart of gold

243. Burn a hole in your pocket

244. Chicken feed

245. Bring home the bacon

246. Pour money down the drain

247. Penny pincher

248. In the red, in the black

249. An arm and a leg

250. Cold, hard cash

251. Take to the cleaners

252. Fat city

253. Living on a shoestring

254. Cutting the cheese

255. Goes with the territory

256. Package deal

257. None the less

258. Don’t cry over spilled milk

259. Shut your pie hole

260. The shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line

261. See ya on the flip side

262. You hit the target

263. That ship has sailed

264. Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd.

265. Rattle them off

266. Whatever flips your skirt/floats your boat

267. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

268. Call a spade a spade

269. Playing to the lowest common denominator

270. You’re earning stars in your crown

271. You could sell blisters to a track team

272. I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck

273. Don’t knock it till you try it

274. Love drunk

275. I have to pee like a racehorse

276. I’m an open book

272. Don’t put crumbs in my butter

273. Gag me with a pitchfork

274. There’s not enough room to swing a cat

280. You’re dipping into the kool-aid and you don’t know the flavor