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Tail wagging the dog - The
Take a back seat
Take down a peg or two
Take potluck
Take the bit between your teeth
Take the cake new item
Take the Mickey
Take umbrage
Take with a grain of salt
Taken aback
Talk of the Devil
Talk the talk
Talk to the hand
Talk through one's hat
Tall story new item
Tanstaafl - (there's no such thing as a free lunch)
Tea leaf
Technicolor yawn
Teflon president
Tell it to the marines
Test your mettle - see show your mettle
That's all folks!
That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind
The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind
The apple of my eye
The back of beyond
The balance of power
The balance of trade
The bane of my life new item
The bee's knees
The belle of the ball new item
The best laid schemes of mice and men
The Big Apple
The Big Easy
The birds and the bees new item
The bitter end
The blind leading the blind
The bread of life
The buck stops here
The call of the wild
The camera cannot lie
The chickens come home to roost
The collywobbles
The course of true love never did run smooth
The crack of doom
The Crapper
The customer is always right
The cut of your jib
The darkest hour is just before the dawn
The Devil Incarnate
The Devil take the hindmost
The Devil to pay
The die has been cast
The early bird catches the worm
The elephant in the room new item
The exception which proves the rule
The face that launched a thousand ships
The fat of the land
The female of the species is more deadly then the male
The floozie in the jacuzzi
The fly in the ointment
The full monty
The game is afoot
The game is up
The great unwashed
The hair of the dog that bit you new item
The hairy eyeball
The heebie-jeebies
The jury is still out new item
The last straw
The life of Riley
The living daylights
The love that dare not speak its name
The moving finger writes
The mutt's nuts
The nth degree
The pen is mightier than the sword
The pot calling the kettle black
The powers that be
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
The quick and the dead new item
The road less travelled
The seven-year itch
The shot heard 'round the world
The sky's the limit
The tail wagging the dog
The third degree
The triumph of hope over experience
The usual suspects
The whole kit and caboodle
The whole nine yards
The whole shebang
The writing is on the wall
The year dot
The Yellow Peril
There are three kinds of lies...
There but for the grace of God, go I new item
There is no alternative
There's an R in the month
There's no such thing as a free lunch (Tanstaafl)
Thick and thin
Thin air - Vanish into
Thing of beauty is a joy forever - A
Things that go bump in the night
Think outside the box new item
Thinking cap
Third degree - The
Third time lucky
Thorn in the flesh
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 in the towel
Throw your hat into the ring new item
Thumbs up
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Ticked off
Tickle the ivories
Tickled pink
Tide over new item
Tie the knot
Till the cows come home
Time and tide wait for no man
Tinker's dam
Tilting at windmills
Titfer
Tits up
To a T
To be or not to be, that is the question
To boldly go where no man has gone before
To boot
To cast the first stone
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
To the manner born
To the nth degree
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
Toe the line new item
Toe-curling
Tomorrow is another day
Tongue in cheek
Too much of a good thing
Toodle-oo
Top dog
Top drawer new item
Top notch
Topsy-turvy new item
Touch with a barge-pole - Wouldn't
Touchy-feely
Tout de suite
Tower of strength
Train surfing
Trick or treat
Trip the light fantastic
Trouble and strife
True blue
Truth will out
Tuckered out new item
Turn a blind eye
Turn the tables
Turn up trumps
Twelve good men and true
Twenty three skidoo
Twenty four seven
Two cents worth
Two peas in a pod new item