High Idioms
High man on the totem pole
Important person
Bring home the bacon
Provide for your family
Cost an arm and a leg
Costs a lot
Put your foot in your mouth
Say something you wish you could take back
When pigs fly
It will never happen
Top dog
Important person
Butter someone up
Be extra nice to them
Give someone a hand
Help someone
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Back someone up
Support their story or idea
His bark is worse than his bite
He looks mean, but isn’t really
Flying high
Really happy, doing a good job
All your eggs in one basket
Count on only one thing
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Stick your neck out
Take a risk
Face the music
Take you punishment
Ants in your pants
Jigging around
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To have a head for something
To have the ability to do something
Bite off more than you can chew
Doing something you’re not good at
On the tip of my tongue
Trying to remember something
See eye to eye with someone
Believe the same thing
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To let the cat out of the bag
To tell a secret
Go fly a kite
Stop bothering me
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Couch potato
Someone who sits around a lot
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Hand over something
Pass something on to someone else
Bite the bullet
Just do something you don’t want to do and get it over with
Sounds fishy
Odd, suspicious.