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