To bend over backwards. To begin from a disadvantaged starting position and to build something of great value, to start empty-handed and by using force and ingenuity create something amazing.

Stretch your limits, Test the waters. You need to see how far you can go, or how far something will take you. For example, try painting, you may find out you are really good, and could actually be a professional, but you’ll never know until you try.

An indirect way of calling someone lazy, someone else must feed him and then literally move his mouth to chew it, since he is too lazy to move his own jaw.

Don’t rush things, take your time

Take his word for it. When a situation is not clear, or all necessary information is not available, a person just accepts or believes what the other person says.

It is better to give than to receive. You need to be generous to others before they will be generous to you.

Give a little to get a little. Sometimes it is necessary to give up something to get something else you want.

Sleep on it. To think something over overnight, mull it over while you sleep.

Make do with what you’ve got. Just be happy with what you’ve got. You need to resolve the situation with whatever is at your disposal. Wishing for more money or help won’t help you finish the task.

A situation that has a lot of up-side potential, but not a lot of risks involved.

There’s no accounting for tastes. Some people just have absurd, bad or disgusting tastes, and for that reason they should be taken out back and beaten.

To each his own, It takes all kinds. You will find all kinds of different people in the world, many of whom will be strange or weird or have extreme opinions, but it is important to respect them anyway.

Making a mountain out of a mole hill. Take something minor and paint it as if it were extremely complex.

Hit the nail on the head, Right on the money. A person says or predicts something, that later comes true.

To say the truth, even if it hurts, to speak bluntly.

To make a comment to someone that can be directly related to them, for example, talk about how stupid bank robbers can be to someone that spent 4 years in jail for robbing a bank.

Speak of the devil. Comment made when someone that was just the topic of conversation shows up unexpectedly.

Describes a woman that gets around or is easy; AMA are the initials for the Metropolitan Bus Authority in spanish (Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses), the public bus system in Puerto Rico.

To be worked to death. To be overworked.

Dressed to the nines. A well-dressed person.

A difficult, stubborn person that no one can get through to.

Make a mountain out of a mole hill. Take a simple problem and turn it in to something complicated.

Things are getting ugly, Things are taking a turn for the worse, Things are getting out of hand. A given situation is becoming more serious.

When pigs fly, Not in a million years. Never, that chance is so remote it is impossible, forget it.

A dead-end job, there is no future in what the person is doing.

To be dreaming of unattainable things.

A taste of his own medicine, What comes around goes around. The same bad thing happens to someone, after he/she already made someone else experience it.

To be really, really lost. I guess cockroaches and chickens never socialize together.

Apparently cross-eyed crabs get lost regularly so if you’re more lost than the poor crab, you’re in big trouble. Lost refers not only to directions, but also in situations when a person does not follow the conversation or an idea.

Apparently someone did the research, and realized that monkey’s asses have no hair on them, so this phrase means to be completely bald.