Idioms Beginning With: 'D'

• Dime a dozen
• Dine on ashes
• Dinosaur
• Dip your toes in the water
• Dirty dog
• Discerning eye
• Discretion is the better part of valour
• Dish it out
• Dish the dirt
• Do a Devon Loch
• Do a Lord Lucan
• Do a runner
• Do as you would be done by
• Do the needful
• Do the running
• Do the trick
• Do their dirty work
• Do time
• Do's and don't's
• Dodge the bullet
• Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?
• Dog and pony show
• Dog days
• Dog eat dog
• Dog in the manger
• Dog tired
• Dog's dinner
• Dog's life
• Dog-eared
• Dog-whistle politics
• Doggy bag
• Doldrums
• Dollars for doughnuts
• Don't bite the hand that feeds
• Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched
• Don't cry over spilt milk
• Don't give up the day job
• Don't hold your breath
• Don't judge a book by the cover
• Don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't mention it
• Don't mention the war
• Don't push my buttons!
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't stand there with curlers in your hair
• Don't stop and kick at every dog that barks at you
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Don't take any wooden nickels
• Don't throw bricks when you live in a glass house

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