1 . To set the themes on fire
2 . Draw the line
3 . Out of sorts
4 . Took off
5 . Be led by the nose
6 . A wide berth
7 . Play ducks and drakes
8 . Taken aback
9 . A wild goose chase
10 . Gone through
11 . Back to square one
12 . In the soup
13 . To Eat humble pie
14 . No spring chicken
15 . Put by
16 . Snake in the grass
17 . Vote with their feet
18 . A chip of the old block
19 . At one's wit's end
20 . Hook, lie and sinker
21 . Stormed out
22 . Have a finger in every pie
23 . Batten down the hatches
24 . Be through
25 . Rises with the lark
26 . Make up one's mind
27 . A red letter day
28 . Feeling in my gut
29 . Strike a chord
30 . Brought the house down
31 . Wild goose chase
32 . Pulls no punches
33 . In the air
34 . A bird' eye view
35 . Kept a level head
36 . A flying visit
37 . To win laurels
38 . A bird’s eye view
39 . Ended in smoke
40 . The jury is out
41 . Curtain Lecture
42 . On cloud nine
43 . A bee hive
44 . Take French leave
45 . Put in a nutshell
46 . Hold water
47 . The salt of the earth
48 . Go at equal speed
49 . Arm chair critic
50 . As daft as a brush
51 . Left someone high and dry
52 . Flies off at a tangent
53 . Getting hotter
54 . Cock and bull story
55 . Close-fisted man
56 . Go through the hoops
57 . Make a mountain out of a molehill
58 . The gnomes of Zurich
59 . Chapter and verse
60 . All thumbs
61 . To the letter
62 . Down to earth
63 . Take after
64 . Make believe
65 . On the same page
66 . With might and main
67 . As the crow flies
68 . At his wit’s end
69 . Laying it on thick
70 . Ducks and drakes
71 . Spilled the beans
72 . Under the weather
73 . Read between the lines
74 . To carve out a niche
75 . In the nick of time
76 . Go back to the drawing board
77 . To keep the wolf away from the door
78 . Dog in a manger
79 . Make amends for
80 . Feather his nest
81 . To cut the gordian knot
82 . A golden mean
83 . Feet of clay
84 . Turned a deaf ear to
85 . Go for the Jugular
86 . Alma mater
87 . A closefisted man
88 . Threw up my cards
89 . Call it a day
90 . Taking French leave
91 . Vexed question
92 . Going places
93 . Go Dutch
94 . Made a bee line
95 . In two minds
96 . Back me
97 . Clean hands
98 . Set about
99 . At loggerheads
100 . Eat humble pie
101 . Put my foot down