Household
A lot on my plate
Have a lot of commitments and responsibilities.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Eating healthy helps you stay healthy.
Sleep like a baby
to sleep well.
Hit the hay
go to bed
Face the music
Deal with the consequences of a choice.
A watched pot never boils
When you're waiting for something to happen, being impatient and constantly checking will just make things seem longer.
A bitter pill to swallow
something that is hard to accept.
Child's play
very simple, easy
It's a jungle out there
A dangerous situation without rules.
Clear as a bell
Very clear or easy to understand.
Cut a rug
dance!
Just what the doctor ordered
It was just what was needed (example... "Having a whole week off from school was just what the doctor ordered."
Someone who recently joined
Draw the short straw
To lose or be chosen to do something unpleasant.
Fit as a fiddle
in great health
Get up on the wrong side of the bed
Taste of your own medicine.
do something bad to someone that they have done to you to teach them a lesson.
Baby Boomer
someone born in the years after the end of the Second World War, a period when the population was growing very fast.
Grasping at straws
If someone is in serious trouble they may be trying anything to get out of it.
Blow your own horn
Brag about your accomplishments.
Have a "light bulb" moment.
To realize something.
Under the knife
To have surgery.
Throw the baby out with the bathwater.
get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things
Barking up the wrong tree
Asking the wrong person or looking in the wrong place.
Music to my ears
exactly what you had wanted to hear.