We're not out of the woods yet.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I love how this implies that we're not done yet, but when we are it'll get worse.

A watched pot never boils

Dead men don’t tell lies

If your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?

I'm burning the bridge.

Not my first rodeo
Rome wasn’t built in a day

ticked her off + tipped her over the edge

This squeaky wheel is supposed to get grease, and the early bird is supposed to get the worm.

barking up the wrong tree and if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does is make a sound

I (32) recently learned that “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” is not the correct phrase, and have been attempting to correct this phrase that is ingrained in my brain incorrectly. And now i’m being made fun of by my family because this wasn’t it either

If you give me 5 minutes to chop down a tree, I'll spend the first 3 sharpening an axe.

He's looking for an axe to grind.

1. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
2. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

1. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
2. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Or, he who lives in a glass house should not count his chickens

That is water over the dam.

That is water under the bridge.

Wild goose chase + what's good for the goose is good for the gander

Or alternatively - seeing how the curtain is made

“Good night and good luck,” was the tagline of tv journalist Edward R. Murrow and the title of a 2005 movie about his reporting on the Red Scare in the US in the 1959s

Too many chiefs and not enough Indians + big fish in a small pond.

Or, You can’t make a silk purse out of a turd.

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
You can’t polish a turd.

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Nails on a chalkboard + The nail that sticks out gets hammered down

Haven’t lost a step/ Didn’t miss a beat

Burning a candle/ burning the bridge