Animals
Body Parts
Weather
Food
Objects
100

It's raining cats and dogs.

It's raining very heavily.

100

Break a leg.

Good luck.

100

Saving for a rainy day.

To save something for later.

100

Piece of cake.

Easy.

100

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Don't judge something/someone by how they look.

200

Kill two birds with one stone.

Accomplish/do more than one thing with the same action.

200

Costs an arm and a leg.

Very expensive.

200

Take a rain check.

To postpone plans.

200

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

You can't have everything.

200

Burn bridges.

Destroy relationships.

300

Barking up the wrong tree.

To be mistaken, or to be looking for solutions in the wrong place.

300

Give someone the cold shoulder.

Ignore someone.

300

Rain on someone's parade.

To spoil/ruin something.

300

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Apples are healthy.

300

Fit as a fiddle.

To be in good health.

400

Birds of a feather flock together.

People who are alike are often friends, (meant in a negative way).

400

Wrap your head around something.

To try to understand a difficult concept.

400

A storm in a teacup.

A big fuss about a small problem.

400

You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

There's always a cost to doing things.

400

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Things are going from bad to worse.

500

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

What you have now is more valuable than what you may have later.

500

By the skin of their teeth.

Just barely.

500

Once in a blue moon.

Something that rarely occurs.

500

Don't cry over spilt milk.

There's no reason to complain about something that can't be fixed.

500

They're not playing with a full deck.

To be dumb, calling someone dumb.