What goes around comes around. Whatever you did as a child, your children will do the same thing to you.

Like father, like son. Children mimic what they see their parents doing.

Criticizes the person that arrives for dinner, eats and then immediately leaves. Someone does this regularly comes off as a freeloader and rude.

Worry about yourself and how you act, you do not need to compare yourself to others and see what they’re up to.

Seeing is believing. Something so unbelievable has happened, that the only way that people will believe it is by seeing it themselves.

In order to receive the benefits of something, a person must first plan and prepare so that those benefits appear.

To remove yourself from a bad situation. To pull back to avoid becoming involved.

Be prepared for anything

Put someone in his place. When someone steps out of line, it is necessary to remind them of their status or position.

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.