To outsmart someone

Meet your match. To run up against the person that could beat or overcome you (often figuratively).

After marriage, life goes downhill. Once a person gets married, life becomes boring and repetitive.

In what world does he live in? Expresses that the person is crazy or out of touch with reality. For example, John thinks that in two years people will be living on the moon. Someone else would use this phrase to say that John is nuts.

There is a remedy for everything except death. Consoling statement for someone that is fed up with a situation. The phrase means that the person should not worry, because there is a solution.

In union there is strength, Safety in numbers, United we stand, divided we fall. By sticking together, a group of people can achieve much more than each person separately.

If someone has a habit of lying, it becomes difficult to believe the person, even in the situations when he/she is telling the truth.

If something is known ahead of time, it is possible to take steps to avoid any dangers.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. One person can stand out, or achieve a position of power, not because they are great or skilled, but only because those around them are incapable.

Comment made after observing poor behavior, effectively saying that it is unfortunate but it happens all the time.

This phrase is applied to any type of expert that does not treat his personal life the same. Examples are the carpenter who’s house is falling apart or the financial advisor that is broke.

Advice to not talk more than necessary, to avoid embarrassing situations, gossiping or causing problems for others.

Anyone that does something half-assed the first time, will have to do it again a second time to fix the problems. Implies that it is better to do something right from the beginning.

Ironic phrases highlighting that physical labor cannot harm a person.

Time is a precious item that once it is gone cannot be recovered.

Time heals all wounds. As time passes, any wounds (physical or emotional) become less and less painful.

Time is money. Time is a precious item and should be used both sparingly and efficiently.

Often people try to improve a situation but end up making it worse instead.

Out of touch with reality. If you are always dreaming, and never are in reality, you will die disillusioned from what you expected.

This phrase advises to live a clean, healthy life so that you may have a painless, quick death, but also so that people will remember you positively.

Refers to a person that benefits from a situation without caring about how it affects others.

Keep your shop and your shop will keep you. A person needs to attend to his own businesses or affairs (not the romantic kind!). If he cannot or will not do this, it is better to remove himself from the situation. This phrase can be taken literally as an advice for a business but figuratively […]

Friends in high places. Here a godfather is a person’s protector, a person in a high position with lots of influence that can help a someone along (for example, in a career). Means that the person is blessed because of his/her connections.

If you are capable of doing something yourself, there is no need to send or hire someone else to do it.

If you run across someone that is laughing, but is alone, it is because he is remembering something naughty that he did.

You reap what you sow. If you treat people poorly, then you should expect the same treatment in return.

Goofy and playful phrase used when someone leaves their seat, and it is taken by someone else. Means that once a person stands up, he has lost the right to his chair.

when a person makes an extreme effort to look good, I’d rather be caught dead than without my make-up

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to get down from something