Idioms Beginning With: 'P'

• Pole position
• Poles apart
• Polish the apples
• Polishing peanuts
• Politically correct
• Poor as a church mouse
• Pop the question
• Pop your clogs
• Pork barrel
• Post-haste
• Pot calling the kettle black
• Pot-luck
• Pound of flesh
• Pound sand
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Powder your nose
• Powers that be
• Practical joke
• Practise what you preach
• Preaching to the choir
• Presence of mind
• Press the flesh
• Press the right buttons
• Pressed for time
• Prick up your ears
• Pride goes before a fall
• Prim and proper
• Primrose path
• Prince charming
• Problem is thirty
• Proclaim it from the rooftops
• Prodigal son
• Proof of the pudding is in the eating
• Pros and cons
• Proud as a peacock
• Pull a rabbit out of your hat
• Pull in the reins
• Pull no punches
• Pull out all the stops
• Pull out of the fire
• Pull rank
• Pull someone's leg
• Pull strings
• Pull the fat from the fire
• Pull the other one, it's got brass bells on
• Pull the pin
• Pull the plug
• Pull the trigger
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes
• Pull up your socks

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