Idioms and Adages #4

Beggars can't be choosers

• to sell a lot of something quickly

• don't disrupt things

• time passes slowly when you are waiting

• don't be picky about things given to you

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Don't put the cart before the horse

• a deep, dark secret

• make sure things are in the right order

• cheap, inexpensive

• really old

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Long in the tooth

• really old

• cheap

• to be crazy

• to lose self control

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Close, but no cigar

• near successful, but not quite

• a secret

• things are easily forgotten when not in plain sight

• family bonds are closer than with others

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Time passes slowly when you are waiting for something

• birds of a feather flock together

• get a leg up

• a watched pot never boils

• blood is thicker than water

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don't count on something before it happens

• close, but no cigar

• jump on the bandwagon

• fly off the handle

• don't count your chickens before they hatch

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The front passenger seat of a vehicle

• fly off the handle

• in the limelight

• selling like hotcakes

• riding shotgun

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To get a head start

• riding shotgun

• long in the tooth

• get a leg up

• a dime a dozen

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A deep, dark secret

• skeleton in the closet

• as mad as a hatter

• out of sight, out of mind

• have an ax to grind

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To seek revenge against someone

• don't look a gift horse in the mouth

• have an ax to grind

• fly off the handle

• may a true word is spoken in jest

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