Idioms Beginning With: 'T'

• Take your hat off to somebody
• Take your medicine
• Taken as read
• Tale of the tape
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk a glass eye to sleep
• Talk a mile a minute
• Talk is cheap
• Talk nineteen to the dozen
• Talk of the town
• Talk out of the back of your head
• Talk out of your hat
• Talk shop
• Talk the hind legs off a donkey
• Talk the legs off an iron pot
• Talk turkey
• Talk your arm off
• Talking to a brick wall
• Tall drink of water
• Tall enough to hunt geese with a rake
• Tall order
• Tall story
• Tally ho!
• Tankie
• Tar baby
• Tar with the same brush
• Taste blood
• Taste of your own medicine
• Teach your grandmother to suck eggs
• Teacher's pet
• Tear your hair out
• Tears before bedtime
• Teeny-weeny
• Teething problems
• Tell it to the marines
• Tell them where the dog died
• Tempest in a teapot
• Tempt fate
• Tempt providence
• Ten a penny
• Test the waters
• That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee
• That dog won't hunt
• That is the way the cookie crumbles
• That makes two of us
• That ship has sailed
• That's a given
• That's all she wrote
• The apple does not fall far from the tree
• The ayes have it

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