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