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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