Sayings That Start With The Letter T

Tail wagging the dog
Take a back seat
Take care of the pence 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 the upper hand
Take umbrage
Take with a grain of salt
Taken aback
Taken for a ride
Talk of the Devil
Talk the talk
Talk through one's hat
Talk to the hand
Tall story
Tanstaafl – (there's no such thing as a free lunch)
Tattoo phrases and sayings
Tawdry
Tea leaf
Teensy-weensy
Technicolor yawn
Tell it to the marines
Tell me about it
Tempest in a teapot
show your mettle
That's all folks!
That's all she wrote
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
The bee's knees
The belle of the ball
The best defense is a good offence
The best laid schemes of mice and men
The Big Apple
The Big Easy
The birds and the bees
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 Canting Crew
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 cut of your jib
The dark side
The darkest hour
The darkest hour is just before the dawn
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 die has been cast
The dog days of summer
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 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 fifth estate
The floozie in the jacuzzi
The fly in the ointment
The full monty
The game is afoot
The game is up
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
The great unwashed
The hair of the dog that bit you
The hairy eyeball
The heebie-jeebies
The Ides of March
The jury is still out
The land of nod
The last straw
The law is an ass
The life of Riley
The living daylights
The long arm of the law
The love that dare not speak its name
The monstrous regiment of women
The more the merrier
The moving finger writes
The mutt's nuts
The nth degree
The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings
The pen is mightier than the sword
The pip
The pits
The pot calling the kettle black
The powers that be
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
The quick and the dead
The real McCoy
The road less travelled
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
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 smallest room in the house
The spirit of the staircase
The straw that broke the camel's back
The tail wagging the dog
The toast of the town
The third degree
The triumph of hope over experience
The upper hand
The usual suspects
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 is more than one way to kill a cat
There are three kinds of lies…
There but for the grace of God, go I
There is no alternative
There's an R in the month
There's method in my madness
There's more than one way to kill a cat
There's no fool like an old fool
There's no place like home
There's no such thing as a free lunch (Tanstaafl)
There's no such thing as bad publicity
There's one (a sucker) born every minute
There's one law for the rich and another law for the poor
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance
Thick and fast
Thick and thin
Thick as thieves
Thick as two short planks
Thin air
Thing of beauty is a joy forever
Things that go bump in the night
Think outside the box
Thinking cap
Third degree
Third time lucky
Thomas Paine
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 a spanner in the works
Throw the towel in
Throw good money after bad
Throw your hat into the ring
Thumbs up
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Tic-tac-toe
Ticked off
Tickle the ivories
Tickled pink
Tide over
Tie the knot
Till the cows come home
Time and tide wait for no man
Time's winged chariot
Tinker's dam
Tilting at windmills
Tissue of lies
Titfer
Tit for tat
Tits up
To a T
To all intents and purposes
To be or not to be, that is the question
To beat the band
To beggar belief
To boldly go where no man has gone before
To boot
To cast the first stone
To err is human; to forgive divine
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
Toast of the town
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 much of a good thing
Toodle-oo
Toodle-pip
Tooth and nail
Top dog
Top drawer
Top notch
Topsy-turvy
Total shambles
Touch and go
Touch with a barge-pole
Touch wood
Touchy-feely
Tout de suite
Tower of strength
Train surfing
Trick or treat
Trip the light fantastic
Trouble and strife
True blue
Truth is stranger than fiction
Truth will out
Tuckered out
Tudor phrases and sayings
Turn a blind eye
Turn of phrase
Turn the tables
Turn up for the books
Turn up trumps
Twelve good men and true
Twenty three skidoo
Twenty four seven
Two cents worth
Two heads are better than one
Two peas in a pod

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