Idioms Beginning With: 'Y'

• Yah boo sucks
• Yank my chain
• Yell bloody murder
• Yellow press
• Yellow streak
• Yellow-bellied
• Yen
• Yeoman's service
• Yes-man
• Yesterday's man or Yesterday's woman
• Yesterday's news
• You are what you eat
• You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
• You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
• You can say that again
• You can't beat that with a stick
• You can't fight City Hall
• You can't get there from here
• You can't have cake and the topping, too
• You can't have your cake and eat it
• You can't hide elephants in mouseholes
• You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
• You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
• You can't take it with you
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks
• You can't unring a bell
• You could cut it with a knife
• You could have knocked me down with a feather
• You do not get a dog and bark yourself
• You get what you pay for
• You pays your money and you takes your chances
• You pays your money and you takes your choice
• You reap what you sow
• You said it!
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
• You what?
• You're killing me!
• You're toast
• You've got rocks in your head
• You've made your bed- you'll have to lie in it
• Young at Heart
• Young blood
• Young Turk
• Your belly button is bigger than your stomach
• Your call
• Your name is mud
• Your sins will find you out

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