Idioms Beginning With: 'W'

• Wee buns
• Wee hours
• Weight off your shoulders
• Well-heeled
• Well-oiled
• Well-oiled machine
• Were you born in a barn?
• Were you born in a field?
• Wet behind the ears
• Wet blanket
• Wet your whistle
• Whale
• Whale of a time
• What can sorry do?
• What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
• What goes around comes around
• What goes around, comes around
• What will be will be
• What's cooking?
• What's good for the goose is good for the gander
• What's the damage?
• What's up?
• What's your poison?
• What's your take on that?
• Whatever floats your boat
• Wheels fall off
• Wheels within wheels
• When hell freezes over
• When in Rome, do as the Romans do
• When it rains, it pours
• When pigs fly
• When the chickens come home to roost
• When the dust clears
• Where the rubber meets the road
• Where there's a will, there's a way
• Where there's muck, there's brass
• Where there's smoke, there's fire
• Whet your appetite
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• While the cat's away, the mouse will play
• Whistle down the wind
• Whistle for it
• Whistle-stop tour
• Whistling Dixie
• Whistling in the dark
• Whistling past the graveyard
• White as a ghost
• White as a sheet
• White as snow

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