Idiom Explorer Pillows

"So I`m asking you to carry one more straw. What`s with the big problem?"

"I'm sorry-this is literally my first rodeo."

The Legendary Birth of an Idiom

"In medical terms, it's known as 'cat got your tongue'."

An English and French student converse.

'Then my brother said he'd like to bury the hatchet...'

Proactive conventional wisdom.

"Stop it, Jed. That is NOT how we ride shotgun!"

"Well yes, you've led me here, but you don't honestly expect me to drink sea water, do you?"

'I always thought that was just a figure of speech.'

"But there has to be something wrong with me, Doctor. Money makes me extremely happy."

'It was animal day at school...I had a dog, Merry had a cat, Robert had a tarantula, and the teacher had a cow.'

"My own lamb-skin! Thanks Dad!"

Where pie in the sky comes from...

Uh, oh, the cows come home!

'Dad, when you say life's a bowl of cherries, what's a cherry?'

"Ronald Reagan...spinning."

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

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

"Who said Ron Mance was dead?"

Spot Light

"Balancing my books."

"Baldo, you need to hit those books!"

"If you knew what you looked like in there, you wouldn't be so happy."

"Fine porcelain and crystal stemware?"

The early worm catches the bird.

Lift Buttons - Up Up Away

Crying Wolf

"Free as a bird? Yeah right, that was before I got married..."

"If we are not going to talk about the elephant, can we for the love of God, talk about the rhinoceros!"

"Looks like reindeer."

"I want to check out that book that has every trick in it."

If the pot called the kettle black nowadays.

Flat Foot

"Clyde, I can't find my pink dress anywherrrr..."