The Idiom challenge

[taxlady]

A British friend of mine said he didn't want to get caught "telling porkies" to passport control.

 

[CWS4322]

I side with your friend, I don't want to get caught "telling lies outside of school."

 

[Luvabigdog]

.....or you would be the little boy/girl who "cried wolf".

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I'm more like a "Wolf in sheep's clothing."

 

[babetoo]

"a little bird told me" that isn't true.

 

[joesfolk]

Well, "just between you, me, and the fencepost" I bet it is true.

 

[roadfix]

Well, "no chit, Dick Tracy", everyone knows it's true....

 

[babetoo]

how about "no chit sherlock"

 

[Somebunny]

I don't know...believing that could put you "between the devil and the deep blue sea"

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[megamark]

Frankly, I don't give "two hoots" for Gilbert Godfrey.

 

[Barbara L]

Well, it has been "a blast" reading these, but it is time to "put on the old feedbag" now. I'll be back in "three shakes of a lamb's tail."

Barbara

 

[Sprout]

"I'm starving," too, but it's late so I'd better "hit the sack," so "nighty night."

 

[Barbara L]

*Yawn* I'm "too pooped to pop." Good night!

Barbara

 

[Zereh]

Time for me to hit the hay as well.

 

[Zhizara]

I'm Up before the crack of dawn, this morning.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

"The early bird gets the worm!"

 

[joesfolk]

Yes, but "the second mouse gets the cheese."

 

[CWS4322]

Yeah, but it ain't over "until the fat lady sings."

 

[babetoo]

however sometimes it is over in "a new york minute"

 

[Claire]

I remember once I was in-processing a young Korean bride. I did really, realy well in that I knew how to say hello (I've forgotten now!), knew that most Koreans like orange flavored drinks (sent one of my airmen down to the machine I knew had orange pop). Did OK until someone said something about breaking a record! This gal's English wasn't bad at all (a heck of a lot better than my 6 or 7 words of Korean!), but there I was, trying to explain that, no, we weren't going to break any (then vinyl) records. I think learning idioms is the hardest thing when trying to learn a new language. When I would have said, "That'll happen when aitch-ee-double hocky sticks freezes over" (I don't want to get bleeked) a German girlfriend of mine would say something about when the statue on the bridge smiles (she was from Nurenburg).