259 entries
Sayings that start with the letter T
- Take a back seat
- Take a beat
- Take a beating
- Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
- Take down a peg or two
- Take potluck
- Take the bit between your teeth
- Take the cake
- Take the gilt off the gingerbread
- Take the Mickey
- Take umbrage
- Take with a grain of salt
- Taken aback
- Taken for a ride
- Takes some beating
- Talk a blue streak
- Talk through one's hat
- Talk to the hand ('cause the face ain't listening)
- Tall story
- Tawdry
- Tea leaf - A
- Technicolor yawn
- Teensy-weensy
- Tell it to the marines
- Tell me about it
- Tempest in a teapot
- That ship has sailed
- That's all folks!
- That's all she wrote
- That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind
- The exception that proves the rule
- The (most) unkindest cut of all
- The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind
- The apple never falls far from the tree
- The apple of my eye
- The back of beyond
- The balance of power
- The balance of trade
- The bane of one's life
- The be all and end all
- The bee's knees
- The belle of the ball
- The best laid schemes of mice and men
- The Big Apple
- The big cheese
- The Big Easy
- The birds and the bees
- The bitter end
- The blind leading the blind
- The bowels of the earth
- The bread of life
- The buck stops here
- The call of nature
- The call of the wild
- The calm before the storm
- The camera cannot lie
- The cat's pajamas
- The chickens come home to roost
- The child is father to the man
- The collywobbles
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- The crack of doom
- The crapper
- The customer is always right
- The dark side
- The darkest hour
- The darkest hour is just before the dawn
- The darling buds of May
- The Devil has all the best tunes
- The Devil incarnate
- The devil is in the details
- The devil makes work for idle hands to do
- The Devil take the hindmost
- The devil to pay
- The devil's advocate
- The die has been cast
- The early bird catches the worm
- The elephant in the room
- The emperor's new clothes
- The empire on which the sun never sets
- The ends of the earth
- The face that launched a thousand ships
- The fat is in the fire
- The female of the species is more deadly than the male
- The floozie in the jacuzzi
- The Full Monty
- The game is afoot
- The game is up
- The girl with colitis goes by
- The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
- The great unwashed
- The hair of the dog
- The hairy eyeball
- The Ides of March
- The jury is still out
- The land of Nod
- The last straw (that broke the camel's back)
- The law is an ass
- The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
- The life of Riley
- The living daylights
- The long arm of the law
- The love of money is the root of all evil
- The love that dare not speak its name
- The Mad Maid's Song, by Robert Herrick
- The many way to pronounce 'ough'
- The meek shall inherit the earth
- The more the merrier
- The moving finger writes
- The mutt's nuts
- The order of the boot
- The path of least resistance
- The pen is mightier than the sword
- The penny drops
- The pits
- The pot calling the kettle black
- The powers that be
- The proof of the pudding
- The quality of mercy is not strained
- The Queen's English
- The quick and the dead
- The Real McCoy
- The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
- The road less travelled
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- The root of the matter
- The rub of the green
- The salt of the earth
- The seven-year itch
- The shoemaker always wears the worst shoes
- The short end of the stick
- The shot heard 'round the world
- The sky's the limit
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
- The smallest room in the house
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- The spirit of the staircase
- The status quo
- The struggle is real
- The tail wagging the dog
- The third degree
- The toast of the town
- The triumph of hope over experience
- The usual suspects
- The wages of sin is death
- The whole 'whole nine yards' enchilada
- The whole kit and caboodle
- The whole nine yards
- The whole shebang
- The writing is on the wall
- The wrong side of the blanket
- The year dot
- The Yellow Peril
- There are plenty more fish in the sea
- There are three kinds of lies...
- There but for the grace of God, go I
- There is more than one way to skin a cat
- There is no alternative
- There is no such thing as bad publicity
- There is one born every minute
- There's a bathroom on the right
- There's an R in the month
- There's method in my madness
- There's no fool like an old fool
- There's no place like home
- There's no such thing as a free lunch
- There's one law for the rich and another law for the poor
- Thereby hangs a tale
- Thick and fast
- Things that go bump in the night
- Think outside the box
- Think outside the box
- Third time lucky
- This is the short and the long of it
- This is very midsummer madness
- This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
- Thou shalt not kill
- Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
- Three score and ten
- Three sheets to the wind
- Three strikes and you are out
- Through thick and thin
- Throw a spanner in the works
- Throw good money after bad
- Throw in the towel
- Throw your hat into the ring
- Thumbs up
- Thunder thighs
- Tic-tac-toe
- Ticked off
- Tickety-boo
- Tickle the ivories
- Tickled pink
- Tide over
- Tie the knot
- Till the cows come home
- Tilting at windmills
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Time will tell
- Time's wingèd chariot
- Tired and emotional
- Tit for tat
- Tits-up
- To a T
- To bandy words
- To be, or not to be, that is the question
- To beat the band
- To boldly go where no man has gone before
- To boot
- To cast the first stone
- To catch a crab
- To each their own
- To err is human; to forgive, divine
- To kowtow to
- To mince words
- To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
- To the manner born
- To the nth degree
- To thine own self be true
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
- Toe the line
- Toe-curling
- Toffee-nosed
- Tom, Dick and Harry
- Tommy Atkins
- Tomorrow is another day
- Tongue in cheek
- Too big for your breeches
- Too many cooks spoil the broth
- Too much of a good thing
- Toodle-oo
- Toodle-pip
- Tooth and nail
- Top dog
- Top drawer
- Top notch
- Topsy-turvy
- Touch and go
- Touchy-feely
- Tout de suite
- Tower of strength
- Trick or treat?
- Trip the light fantastic
- Trouble and strife
- True blue
- Truth is stranger than fiction
- Truth will out
- Tuckered out
- Turkeys voting for Christmas
- Turn a blind eye
- Turn of phrase
- Turn the tables
- Turn up trumps
- Twelve good men and true
- Twenty four seven
- Twinkle toes
- Two cents' worth
- Two heads are better than one