To be back at the bottom of the ladder. - To fight with one's own shadow.
- To be back at the bottom of the ladder.
- To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
- To be head over ears in debt.
- To be in one's birthday suit.
- To be on one's guard.
- To be really successful, company must have branches as well as roots.
- To be up to the ears in love.
- To be wise behind the hand.
- To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
- To beat about the bush.
- To beat the air.
- To bring grist to somebody's mill.
- To build a fire under oneself.
- To buy a pig in a poke.
- To call a spade a spade.
- To call off the dogs.
- To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy.
- To carry coals to Newcastle.
- To cast pearls before swine.
- To cast prudence to the winds.
- To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
- To choose time is to save time.
- To come away none the wiser.
- To come off cheap.
- To come off with a whole skin.
- To come off with flying colours.
- To come out dry.
- To come out with clean hands.
- To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
- To cook a hare before catching him.
- To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
- To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- To cut one's throat with a feather.
- To draw (pull) in one's horns.
- To draw water in a sieve.
- To drop a bucket into an empty well.
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly.
- To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
- To err is human.
- To err is human; to forgive divine.
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