- A penny for your thoughts: Often used as a phrase to ask someone what he/she is thinking?
- A perfect storm: An extremely bad situation with a combination of events making things worse.
- Comparing apples to oranges: used to say that two things are completely different and it is not sensible to compare them.
- Don’t give up your day job: a usually humorous way of telling someone not to pursue something full time as he or she is not good at it. A somewhat sarcastic but mostly good-natured comment for criticizing someone’s lack of talent at something.
- He has bigger fish to fry: To have more important or more interesting things to do or attend to.
- It ain’t over till the fat lady sings: Used for saying that it is still possible for a situation to change
