Idiom Investigator Gifts

'How would you feel about working in a small pond?'

Smoky was reluctant to speak, but anything straight from the horse's mouth was always well received...

'I asked JB but he refused to fall on his sword.'

"My wife thought the phrase 'stick it to the man' meant everyone, hence we're divorced. My new girlfriend and I met at a party. She's krazy, man. We bonded right away and now she's pregnant. It's a squeeze top. My brother's in rehab for sniffing. He never could get his nose out of my business."

"The phrase I hate the most is, 'you hit the nail on the head.'"

Don't give up - Surrender.

The Devil is in the Details

A baseball player's errors make a hit in the next day's sports pages.

Great Cliches: At the end of the day.

'Something fishy is going on here!'

"Yeah, he's sooo sweet, but I'm not happy as a clam!"

English Lessons for Immigrants

"It is as I feared, Mr. Moran. It's definitely a stiff upper lip."

"Names didn't work. Bring in the sticks and stones."

"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."

Soldier armed with a pen.

"And the winner is… Dan the Man by a nose!"

'Nurse, why is there always a fly in my ointment?'

The devil you know and his plus one

Wordplay: In The Bag.

Sauce for the Goose

"Nuts to you, too."

"Ahhh....I think that was a flying fuck."

"Sir, your ducks, they are not in a row."

"Thank god you're early. It's a can of worms."

"I think before we begin to address me, we need to talk about the clown in the room."

"It's great to see Biff; Socksie the cat is out of the bag..."

Another day in the Splenda mines

"It's an honest mistake I'm sure we'll never hear of again."

Angel wears t-shirt with logo: YOLO.

"He doesn't suffer fools gladly."

"He wasn't even early - he was on his way home from a party!"