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nanna8 Mon 18-Dec-23 08:00:03

Say the first one is, ‘cloud’ you could have
‘Every cloud has a silver lining’

How about ‘money’ to start with?

Grannmarie Tue 02-Jan-24 12:28:28

Drinking with the devil.
Devil

Taylor2016 Tue 02-Jan-24 12:24:35

Drinking yourself into oblivion

Drinking

pascal30 Mon 01-Jan-24 15:56:02

sink into oblivion

oblivion

Juliet27 Mon 01-Jan-24 15:36:38

Everything but the kitchen sink

SINK

Bella23 Mon 01-Jan-24 15:34:29

Everything has its day.

Day

crazyH Mon 01-Jan-24 14:53:54

The know-all and be-all of everything

Everything

AGAA4 Mon 01-Jan-24 11:28:23

Keep standing and know everything will be alright.

Know

nanna8 Mon 01-Jan-24 10:37:06

It’ll be alright in the end.

Alright

Gwyllt Mon 01-Jan-24 10:24:39

Thrown in at the deep end

END

Taylor2016 Mon 01-Jan-24 10:17:02

Still waters run deep

Deep

Mollygo Mon 01-Jan-24 09:44:25

Bridge over troubled waters

WATERS

Juliet27 Mon 01-Jan-24 08:54:57

Water under the bridge

BRIDGE

Grannmarie Mon 01-Jan-24 02:41:54

Don't walk under a ladder
Under

Grandyma Sun 31-Dec-23 22:38:19

Climb the ladder of success

LADDER

Gwyllt Sun 31-Dec-23 14:04:01

Climb every mountain

CLIMB

Juliet27 Sun 31-Dec-23 09:23:07

You’re making a mountain out of a molehill

MOUNTAIN

Taylor2016 Sun 31-Dec-23 08:41:09

Out with the old
In with the new

Out

biglouis Sun 31-Dec-23 00:36:12

The new normal

New

65KL Sun 31-Dec-23 00:07:18

Someone's queer is someone else's normal

Normal

GrandmaKT Sat 30-Dec-23 20:11:44

There's nowt so queer as folks
Queer

Taylor2016 Sat 30-Dec-23 20:00:39

Different strokes for different folks

Folks

AGAA4 Sat 30-Dec-23 19:52:26

A weasel is weasily recognised and a stoat is stoatally different.

Different

Baggs Sat 30-Dec-23 18:50:59

Half a pound of tuppenny rice; Half a pound of treacle; that's the way the money goes; Pop! goes the weasel

Weasel

Gwyllt Sat 30-Dec-23 18:38:41

Six of one and half a dozen of the other

HALF

BlueBelle Sat 30-Dec-23 18:24:01

Talk nineteen to the dozen

DOZEN

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