What are your favourite idioms?
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Watch your pennies and they will turn into pounds!!Maybe that's similar to this one @Dragonslayer: 'If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves'?
I could be wrong, but I think the one about turning your money over when there's a new moon is more of a superstition type of thing.
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If someone doesn't like you for you. It is their problem not yours.
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Don't change so people will like you.
Be yourself and the right people will love the real you. -
An eye for an eye turns the whole world blind
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DaddyBear said:If someone doesn't like you for you. It is their problem not yours.
I'd rather be hated for being who I am, than loved for being someone I'm not -
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Not sure if this is an Idiom or not, but I find it good to read.
I do the very best I know how - The very best I can.
And I mean to keep doing so until the end.
If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything.
If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln -
‘Far out’ ‘cool beans’ are idioms, a group of words or phrase whose meaning is not deductible from the individual words, ie far. Out. Meany groovy.
That’s according to a dictionary but hey....
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV -
The boiling water that hardens the egg, also softens the potato...
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The devil makes work for idle handsBetter the devil you know, than the devil you don'tTime doesn't slow down for the unfortunateLook after the pennies, and the pennies look after the poundsDon't put off for tomorrow what you can do today
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Right as rain
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Lap of luxury
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There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
There’s no room to swing a cat. -
The cat's out of the bag.
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You planted a feather and thought it would grow a chicken
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