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