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  • A fool at 40 is a fool forever

    If someone hasn't matured by the time they reach forty, they never will.
  • A hitch in your giddy-up

    If you have a hitch in your giddy-up, you're not feeling well. ('A hitch in your gittie-up' is also used.)
  • A lick and a promise

    If you give something a lick and a promise, you do it hurriedly, most often incompletely, intending to return to it later.
  • A OK, they are absolutely fine.
  • A long row to hoe
  • takes a long time.
  • A lost ball in the high weeds
  • long row to hoe is a difficult task
  • how to do something.
  • someone who does not know what they are doing
  • A month of Sundays

    A month of Sundays is a long period of time
  • A steal
  • seen her in a month of Sundays.
  • a way of asking someone what they are thinking about.
  • a writer who uses lots of puns but isn't very funny would be a poor man's Oscar Wilde
  • costs a pretty penny, it is very expensive.
  • A slice off a cut loaf is never missed

    Used colloquially to describe having sexual intercourse with someone who is not a virgin
  • something is a steal, it costs much less than it is really worth.
  • A watched pot never boils
  • Some things work out in their own time, so being impatient and constantly checking will just make things seem longer.
  • (India) An abject lesson serves as a warning to others.  (In some varieties of English 'object lesson' is used.)
  • no practical use
  • Above board
  • hen companies, governments, etc, change their position on an issue.
  • About face

    If someone changes their mind completely, this is an about face.
  • above board, they are carried out in a legal and proper manner.
  • Above the salt

    This means that something or someone has a high position.
  • Ace in the hole

    An ace in the hole is something other people are not aware of that can be used to your advantage when the time is right.
  • weak spot
  • Achilles' heel

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