⬆️ Above the line
💵 Above your pay grade
🏁 Across the finish line
⛷️ All downhill from here
🛳️ All hands on deck
🍎 Apples to apples
📦 At my previous gig
🌅 At the end of the day
🪓 Axe throwing party
👖 Back pocket
🥕 Back to our roots
⛓️ Ball and chain
🎾 Ball is in your court
🦇 Batshit crazy
🌳 Beat around the bush
🥁 Beat of your own drum
🐴 Beating a dead horse
🛏️ Bed of nails
🧅 Beet is cooked
🤔 Beggars can’t be choosers
📡 Below the radar
✋ Biting the hand that feeds
📦 Black box
🐑 Black sheep
🌬 Blowback
🍾 Bottleneck
🧈 Bread and butter
💥 Break down walls
🧊 Break the ice
🧱 Bricks in the wall
🌉 Bridge to nowhere
🌉 Bridge too far
💺 Buckle up
🔥 Burning bridges
🦅 Buzzards circling
🃏 Card in back pocket
🥕 Carrot
🐴 Cart before the horse
🪦 Carved in stone
🐈 Catwalk
🐓 Chicken crossing the road
🐓 Chicken with its head cut off
🍪 Chip in
🍒 Cherry pick
🦪 Clam up
🧗‍♂️ Climbing up the walls
🕰️ Clock is ticking
📖 Close the book
🏠 Close to home
🦃 Cold turkey
🤿 Come up for air
🧺 Comes out in the wash
🔥 Cooking with gas
🌽 Cornwall
🚑 Critical path
🐺 Cry wolf
🏃‍♂️ Cut to the chase
✂️ Death by a thousand cuts
🤿 Deep dive
🇰🇵 Demilitarized zone
💣 Depth charges
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Designed by committee
🛖 Dirt poor
🧺 Dirty laundry
🍱 Dish best served cold
🤿 Dive in
🖱️ Double click
⏬ Double down
🚽 Down the drain
🔩 Drill in
💧 Drop in the ocean
🦆 Ducks in a row
🔥 Dumpster fire
🦅 Eagle Eye
🐶 Eating your own dog food
💺 Edge of my seat
🥚 Eggs in one basket
🔚 End of the road
🪢 End of the rope
🌲 Evergreen
👁️ Eye for an eye
😌 Eyes wide shut
🗣️ Fast talker
🛻 Fell off the back of a truck
🚙 Fell off the wagon
🗽 Figurehead
☀️ Fire into the sun
⚙️ Firing on all cylinders
🐟 Fish out of water
💪 Flexing different muscles
⛳️ Flag in the ground
🪙 Flip side of the coin
🪰 Fly on the wall
🐄 Flying cows
👣 Following footsteps
⛽️ Foot on the gas
🎨 Fresh coat of paint
🚎 Gain some traction
🛫 Get off the ground
🪑 Glued to my seat
🪣 Go to the well
🐐 Goat
🌾 Grass is always greener
🚦 Green light
💪 Greasing elbows
🚧 Guardrails
🧑‍🦰 Hair on fire
🍞 Half-baked
🔨 Hammer home
💊 Hard pill to swallow
🐢 Hard shell
🤽🏻‍♂️ Head above water
🙇‍♀️ Heads down
🌬 Headwind
🐄 Herd mentality
🤠 Herding cats
🥅 Hit the goal
🎯 Hit the target
🏒 Hockey stick
👜 Holding the purse strings
🏪 Hole in the wall
🍯 Honey pot
🥵 Hot mess
📦 How the other half lives
🦀 In hot water
🧬 In our DNA
💺 In the driver’s seat
🔦 In the spotlight
📕 Judge a book by its cover
🧃 Juice it up
☢️ Keeping the lights on
🏈 Kickoff
🔒 Lockbox
🛬 Land the plane
🔫 Laser focused
🧺 Laundry basket
🙇‍♂️ Lean in
💶 Leaving money on the table
⚽️ Level playing field
🚇 Light at the end of the tunnel
🏖️ Line in the sand
👀 Line of sight
🪵 Log in
🐊 Long tail
🍇 Low-hanging fruit
🤹 Many balls in the air
🎤 Mic drop
🪧 Milestones
🤑 Money where your mouth is
⏩ Move forward
🥅 Move the goalposts
🪡 Move the needle
🔨 Nail down
🪡 Needle in a haystack
🍷 Not a good vintage
🤠 Not my first rodeo
🍓 Not my jam
🔪 Not the sharpest tool in the shed
🏫 Old school
🏝 On an island
🍳 On the back burner
⚾️ On the ball
🪓 On the chopping block
🥅 On the fence
🛬 On the ground
📡 On the radar
🥶 On thin ice
🛤 One track mind
🚪 One way door
🏜 Off the beaten track
📈 Off the charts
🛤 Off the rails
🏇 Off to the races
🚋 Off your trolley
💇 Out of our hair
🏟️ Out of the park
🌲 Out of the woods
📦 Outside the box
⛰ Over the hill
🌈 Over the rainbow
🔝 Over the top
📰 Papering over a problem
🎨 Paint yourself into a corner
🥞 Pancake
👖 Pants on fire
⛳️ Par for the course
🏃‍♂️ Pass the baton
🥜 Peanut buttering 🤮
🏎️ Pedal to the metal
🧅 Peel back the layers
🍰 Piece of cake
🐦 Pigeonhole
🌽 Pissing in the cornflakes
🎩 Pull a rabbit out of a hat
🎹 Pull out all the stops
🎚️ Pull some levers
🔫 Pull the trigger
🦷 Pulling teeth
🪧 Put a stake in the ground
💧 Put away wet
🐰 Rabbit hole
🔘 Radio button
🌧️ Rain on your parade
🏳️ Raise a flag
🏋️ Raise the bar
🏍️ Ready to rumble
🐟 Red herring
🛞 Reinventing the wheel
🚪 Revolving door
🌊 Ride the wave
🛎️ Rings a bell
🩹 Rip the bandaid off
💦 Ripple effects
🚀 Rocket science
💪 Roll up your sleeves
🚬 Roll your own
🛞 Rubber hits the road
💮 Rubber stamp
🐮 Sacred cows
🍲 Salt in my soup
🧂 Salt in my wounds
🌭 Sausage making
🪛 Screw loose
🦠 See what sticks
⬅️ Seeing exit signs
💇 Shave off the top
💩 Shithole country
🛢 Shooting fish in a barrel
🔫 Shooting from the hip
🎶 Singing the same song
😴 Sleep better at night
⛵️ Smooth sailing
🐌 Snail’s pace
☃️ Snowball
🍝 Spaghetti on the wall
🔥 Spread like wildfire
🔪 Stabbed in the back
🏄‍♀️ Standing on the surfboard
☀️ Staring at the sun
🛟 Stay afloat
👟 Stepping up
🦶 Stepping on toes
🪨 Stepping stone
🏟️ Swing for the fences
↩️ Switchback
🛩 Tailspin
💨 Tailwind
🧘 Take a breath
💊 Take a chill pill
⛳️ Tee up
⛵️ That ship has sailed
🎟️ That’s the ticket
🥚 Thin shell
🪨 Throw a rock in the air
🦴 Throw me a bone
🚌 Throw under the bus
💸 Throwing money out the window
🎫 Ticket out of here
🏡 Too close to home
🧑‍🍳 Too many cooks in the kitchen
💻 Top notch
📝 Top of my list
🍾 Top shelf
🏊‍♂️ Treading water
🌲 Tree falls in a forest
🪨 Turn over rocks
🔫 Under the gun
☂️ Under the same umbrella
👃 Under your nose
🤠 Village people
🔄 Walking in circles
👟 Walking in my shoes
🧼 Washboard
🌉 Water under the bridge
🎩 Wearing many hats
🦫 Whack-a-mole
🛣 Where the streets have no name
🐘 White elephant
🦢 Wild goose chase
🤌 With a pinch of salt
🧶 Wound up
🛤️ Wrong side of the tracks
📰 Yesterday’s news