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"We're going to come
out of this smelling like geniuses!"
"I've got ears like a hawk."
"He looks like he's three sheep in the wind."
"I am going to let you move around more, just to break up the mahogany."
"I think it's time to get our sleeves dirty." |
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"You can't see the
forest if you're barking up the wrong tree."
"We need to get our ducks in the fire."
"We don't want to go barking up a dead horse."
"If you have that, the world is your walrus."
"The ball is squarely on our shoulders." |
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3 |
"Your work is late,
but that's neither hide nor there!"
"Sometimes you have to turn a blind ear to these things."
"The best way to learn is from the school of Fort Knox."
"The Indians are nervous at Waterloo."
"Throw that monkey back over the fence." |
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4 |
"Let's not put our
dandruff up in the air."
"She really rubs me up the wrong tree."
"It's an exercise in
fertility."
"Just use your own excretion."
"We're scraping the bottom of the iceberg."
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5 |
"Today is like the
day Rome was built in. We can't afford to have any fiddlers."
"The project is going down the toilet in flames."
"He might be barking at a red herring."
"You're treading on thin water."
"He's as deaf as a bat." |
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6 |
"I gave him a real
mouthful."
"I really took the bull by the hands."
"You should talk to her. She is a minefield of information."
"I can't remember but it's right on the tip of my head!"
"You can lead a pig to pearls..." and then he trailed off. |
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7 |
"Thanksgiving is early
this year because the first Thursday fell on a Monday."
"The skeleton is there. You just have to sharpen it and put the
decorations on the tree."
"We need an escape goat.”
"Part of the
verbiage is a language thing."
"Eventually, I want it now."
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8 |
"It's not that kind of
zero."
"There are a lot of areas for efficiency reductions."
"In the last year, you've turned around 150%."
"I think you might have
hit the nail on the button."
"...caught between a
rock and a wet spot."
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9 |
"She's not the
brightest tree in the forest."
"We've got lower-hanging fish to fry."
"...the light at the end of the rainbow."
"If you can't get those parts in time, that'll really put a wrinkle in
your feather."
"'Usually' only counts in horseshoes." |
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10 |
"You're trying to
move a mountain with a molehill."
"Too many cooks in the pot."
"I wouldn't trust them with a nine foot pole."
"Then I figured that something was rotten in Denver."
My supervisor stated that another manager had him in her "shorthairs."
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