The long- awaited answers:
1) Spilt the beans
2) Kicked the bucket
3) Hit the nail on the head
4) Keeping all the eggs in one basket
5) Ace up the sleeve
6) Cherry on the top
7) Piece of cake
8) Walking on egg shells
9) Cat got your tongue
10) Born with a silver spoon
11) Time Flies
12) Swing a cat by the tail
13) Wear your heart on your sleeve
14) Red herring
15) Playing your cards close to your chest
16) Getting cold feet
17) Rags to riches
18) Pull up your socks
19) Head over heals
20) Tied up in knots
21) A shadow of oneself
22) More holes than Swiss cheese
23) Served on a silver platter
24) A sitting duck
25) In a nutshell
26) Earworm
27) Joker in the pack
Reowr 
DOH!! lol
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Just as you said. :)💜
I’ll repeat myself DOH 😏
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Two DOH!’s are plenty LOL 😋
Do two DOH!’s make a right?
Oh Ya!! Yup! For sure! 😋
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😊 Cause Jack said so!!!
Looking at the picture before reading my first thought was he was having a bad day funny how the mind works
DAMN 😀 I should have got so many of those, lol :’D
Did anyone else notice his shadow tho? :’D
Wow I was no where close –
Haha, now they pop out at you 😂
Love these figures of speech. Nice cartoon too.
Just this afternoon a friend send me this picture to figure out the figures of speech.. I barely managed to count 15.. she sent me her list of not just 27 but 42!
1.Hitting the nail on the head
2.Born with a silver spoon in the mouth
3.A hard nut to crack
4.Putting all the eggs in one basket
5.Wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve
6.Ace up one’s sleeve
7.Joker in the pack
8.Playing the cards close to one’s chest
9.The cherry on the cake
10.Kicked the bucket
11.In a nutshell
12.A nutcase
13.Spilling the beans
14.Best foot forward
15.Dead as a door nail
16.Can’t make an omelette without breaking an egg
16.Red herring
17.An ace up your sleeve
18.Tied up in knots
20.Cold feet
21.Coming home to roost
22.Bird brained
23.Feathered friend
24.Flea in his ear
25.Piece of cake
26.In tatters
27.End of one’s tether
28.Crow about something
29.Hold a cat by the tail
30.Stepping on toes
31.Bald coot
33.Time flies
34.Cat got your tongue?
35.Thinks he is the cat’s whiskers
36.Be a patch on
37.Worm your way out
38.Pull your socks up
39.I am the cheese
40.Down at heel
41.Trodden underfoot
42.Overshadowing someone.
What fun! I like the list offered by Mabelfrancis.
I’ve never heard some of those. Where’s the sitting duck?
Interesting
Great post
Sonya, I am so glad to have come here today. I have been wondering where you were after along silence of no knowing what was happening to you. I’m glad I followed on here to day since it’s apparent you changed your blog. Hope you are doing well. 🙂