- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A rolling stone gathers no moss
- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- A rose is a rose is a rose
- A stone's throw
- Al fresco
- As cold as any stone
- As fast as greased lightning
- As old as the hills
- As pure as the driven snow
- As white as snow
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Beat around the bush
- Bed of roses
- Blood and thunder
- Blot on the landscape
- Bolt from the blue
- Bury your head in the sand
- Cast the first stone
- Devil and the deep blue sea
- Don't let the grass grow under your feet
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Faith will move mountains
- Far from the madding crowd
- From sea to shining sea
- Gild the lily
- Grasp the nettle
- Greased lightning
- Great oaks from little acorns grow
- Heard it through the grapevine
- Hedge your bets
- Here lies one whose name is writ in water
- Hit the hay
- Know your onions
- Laid out in lavender
- Let a thousand flowers bloom
- Let not the sun go down on your wrath
- Mackerel sky
- Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- Nature versus nurture
- Nip in the bud
- On cloud nine
- Once in a blue moon
- Oops-a-daisy
- Over the moon
- Pears for your heirs
- Pie in the sky
- Pour oil on troubled waters
- Primrose path
- Red sky at night …
- Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
- Rose is a rose is a rose
- Shrinking violet
- Stick in the mud
- Sticks and stones may break my bones
- Stone's throw
- Surf and turf
- The call of the wild
- The darling buds of May
- The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
- The salt of the earth
- The sky's the limit
- To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
- Touch wood
- Under the greenwood tree
- Up a gum tree
- Up the apples and pears
- Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
- Vanish into thin air
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I
- You can't get blood out of a stone
- You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
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