Idioms Beginning With: 'T'

• The ball's in your court
• The be all and end all
• The bigger they are, the harder they fall
• The cat's meow
• The common weal
• The grass is always greener
• The grass is greener on the other side of the fence
• The john
• The line forms on the right
• The long and short
• The more the merrier
• The Mountie always gets his man
• The penny dropped
• The plot thickens
• The sands of time
• The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
• The short straw
• The sun might rise in the west
• The whole shooting match
• The world and his wife
• Their bark is worse than their bite
• There are many ways to skin a cat
• There but for the grace of God go I
• There goes the neighbourhood
• There's a dead cat on the line
• There's never a road without a turning
• There's no "I" in "Team"
• There's no accounting for taste
• There's no fool like an old fool
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• There's the rub
• Thick and fast
• Thick as mince
• Thick as thieves
• Thick-skinned
• Thief don’t like to see thief carry long bag
• Thin as a rake
• Thin blue line
• Thin end of the wedge
• Thin line
• Thin-skinned
• Think outside the box
• Think the world of
• Third degree
• Third rail
• Third time lucky
• Third time's the charm
• Thorn in your side
• Those who live by the sword die by the sword
• Thousand pound gorilla in the room

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