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Round the houses
Rule the roost
If someone rules the roost they are the boss. Example:There's no doubt who rules the roost in this house.
Safe as houses
Shop floor
'Shop floor' refers to the part of an organisation where the work is actually performed rather than just managed.
Sit on the fence
If someone sits on the fence, they try not to support either side in a dispute.
Something nasty in the woodshed
Something nasty in the woodshed means that someone as a dark secret or an unpleasant experience in their past.
Straddle the fence
To straddle the fence is to be indecisive, often to the point where it becomes painful not to make a decision.
Take someone to the woodshed
If someone is taken to the woodshed, they are punished for something they have done.
Take the floor
Start talking or giving a speech to a group
Talking to a brick wall
If you talk to someone and they do not listen to you, it is like talking to a brick wall.
Through the ceiling
If prices go through the ceiling, they rise very quickly.
Through the floor
If prices go, or fall, through the floor, they fall very quickly.
To be as thick as two bricks
Someone who is as thick as two bricks is really stupid.
Up the wall
If someone goes up the wall, they get very angry.
Water over the dam
(USA) If something has happened and cannot be changed, it is water over the dam.
Water under the bridge
If something belongs to the past and isn't important or troubling any more, it is water under the bridge.
Were you born in a barn?
Wipe the floor with
(UK) If you wipe the floor with someone, you destroy the arguments or defeat them easily.
Writing on the wall
If the writing's on the wall for something, it is doomed to fail.

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