Idiom Appreciator Gifts

A Brush with Death

"We can never get them both to work at the same time."

'Clever UFO camouflage - they know we won't report a flying pig.'

"How many times have I got to tell you?...Stay out of that stuff!"

'What do you mean, 'maybe we're barking up the wrong tree'?'

'You guys, we got it all wrong! It's supposed to be when the cat's away, the mice will play!'

The Elephant in the Womb

"You can lead me to water but you can't make me drink, unless it has added food coloring and sweeteners."

Bully in the China Shop

"Don't make waves."

"The buck stops here!"

"Now, just for fun. Kick it!"

Barrel of Monkeys

"I see you finally made a mountain out of that mole hill."

Neither Here nor There

"In my practice, I prefer to treat the whole hog."

'... And this is one of the artist's early pieces.'

"Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry. I've been coming on like gangbusters again."

'Eddie, politicians everywhere are kicking cans down the road, so maybe it's time to get in on the boom in tin.'

'Hey lookee here, this is quite a. . . uh. . . shoot, what do you call it when a bunch of us get together?'

'I don't think you grasp the gravity of the situation.'

"We met in my closet."

"Now that you mention it, Alan, Yes, you are chopped liver."

Beauty is all around you.

"He's our busiest surgeon...puts a lot of noses to the grindstone!"

"He's asleep. I think. I don't know. It really creeps me out."

'Squeaky's been getting all the attention, lately. I think it's time we shut him up for good.'

Gus was finding the news hard to swallow.

"We can't ignore the elephant in the room anymore. Everyone – meet Walter."

"Hey! I knew I could depend on you two!"

"Right or wrong he just bugs the shit out of me."

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"You say it all the time, so I climbed every tree to prove it. You were right, money doesn't grow on trees."

'I can't force jocose if I'm not feeling it.'

"Thanks for walking a mile in my shoe but it's beginning to hurt now."