This document lists over 50 common English idioms in alphabetical order, ranging from familiar sayings like "add fuel to the fire" and "beat around the bush" to less well-known ones such as "ants in your pants" and "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed." The idioms cover a wide variety of topics from everyday expressions to sayings related to luck, risk, deception and more.

1. Idioms from A-Z

2. Ace up your sleeve

3. Add fuel to the fire

4. Afraid of your own shadow

5. Air you dirty laundry

6. All that glitters is not gold

7. Ants in your pants

8. At the end of your rope

9. Back to square one

10. Beat around the bush

11. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

12. Beggars can’t be choosers

13. Bite your tongue

14. Blood is thicker than water

15. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

16. Bury your head in the sand

17. Calm before the storm

18. Cat got your tongue

19. C’est la vie

20. Couch potato

21. Cross that bridge when you come to it

22. Cry over spilled milk

23. Dose of one’s own medicine

24. Dressed to kill

25. Early bird catches the worm

26. Eat your heart out

27. Elbow grease

28. Food for thought

29. Full of hot air

30. Get this show on the road

31. Get your feet wet

32. Gift of gab

33. Go over with a fine-tooth comb

34. Grasp at straws

35. Hands are tied

36. Have a bone to pick with you

37. Have a screw loose

38. Have your cake and eat it too

39. Head over heels

40. Hold your horses

41. If the shoe fits

42. Ignorance is bliss

43. In one ear and out the other

44. In the limelight

45. In the nick of time

46. It takes two to tango

47. Jump down my throat

48. Kill two birds with one stone

49. Knock on wood

50. Knock your socks off

51. Lend an ear

52. Light at the end of the tunnel

53. Like pulling teeth

54. Make ends meet

55. Midas touch

56. Monkey business

57. Necessity is the mother of invention

58. Nothing ventured, nothing gained

59. Off the top of your head

60. On cloud nine

61. On the double

62. Open a can of worms

63. Over the hill

64. Pass the buck

65. Put your best foot forward

66. Put your foot in your mouth

67. Quick on the draw

68. Rain check

69. Read between the lines

70. Real McCoy

71. Rock the boat

72. Rolling stone gathers no moss

73. Shake a leg

74. Shoe is on the other foot

75. Spitting image

76. Throw caution to the wind

77. Turn the other cheek

78. Under the weather

79. Up against the wall

80. Wash your hands of something

81. Wet behind the ears

82. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire

83. Wild-goose chase

84. Wolf in sheep’s clothing

85. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink

86. I wasn’t born yesterday

87. Zip your lips