Idiom Index: Words and Themes Beginning with ‘T’

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Find idioms related to words beginning with the letter T.

Table

• Put All Your Cards On the Table
• Under the Table

Tail

• Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed

Take

• Take a Joke (be able to)
• Take As Gospel
• Take Care
• Take French Leave
• Take Off
• Take off Something
• Take Someone to the Cleaners
• Taken Aback, to be

Talk

• Gift Of Gab, the
• Small Talk
• Talk A Blue Streak
• Talk Nineteen to the Dozen
• Talk Someone’s Ear Off
• Talk the Bark Off a Tree
• Talk The Hind Legs Off A Donkey

Task

• Herculean Task
• Sisyphean Task

Tea

• Not For All the Tea in China
• Not My Cup of Tea

Tears

• Bored to Death
• Crocodile Tears

Teeth

• Armed to the Teeth
• By the Skin of My (or one’s) Teeth
• Give Your Eye Teeth (for something)

Television Related Idioms

• Couch Potato
• Jump the Shark

Tell

• A Little Bird Told Me
• Tell Apart
• Tell That To The Marines!
• There’s No Telling

Terms

• On Nodding Terms, to be

Test

• Acid Test

Than

• Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Thank You Responses

• Don’t Mention It (Thank You Response)
• My Pleasure, it was (Thank You Response)
• No Problem (Thank You Response)
• No Sweat (Thank You Response)
• Sure (Thank You Response)

That

• That’s About the Size Of It

There

• There for Someone, to be
• There’s No Accounting for Tastes
• There’s No Telling

Thick

• Thick As Thieves

Thing

• Last Person (or Thing), the

Think/Thinking

• Not Think Twice
• Put On Your Thinking Cap
• Think Twice

Thought Related Idioms

• Enter One’s Head
• Miles Away, to be
• Off the Top Of My Head
• Penny for Your Thoughts, a
• Under the Impression
• Why Do We Say By Heart Instead of By Brain to Mean Mermorize?

Throat

• Jump Down Someone’s Throat
• Stick In Your (or one’s) Throat

Through

• Hear it Through the Grapevine

Throw

• Stone’s Throw, a
• Throw Caution to the Wind(s)
• Throw Down the Gauntlet
• Throw In the Towel

Thumb

• All Thumbs
• Green Thumb (have a)

Tie

• Hands Are Tied (my, someone’s)

Tight

• Tight-Fisted

Time

• Behind The Times
• Clock In and Clock Out
• Eleventh Hour, at the
• Every Time One Turns Around
• Mile a Minute, a
• New York Minute
• On Borrowed Time
• Time Is Ripe
• Water Under The Bridge

Tired

• Dead On Your Feet
• Dog Tired

To

• Beat (someone) To It
• Call to Account
• Hand To Mouth, living from
• Hang On (or hang on to)
• Have Something Down to a Fine Art
• Take Someone to the Cleaners
• To a T
• To Your Heart’s Content

Toady

• Brown Nose, to
• Curry Favor, to
• Kiss Ass or Kiss Butt, to

Toasts

• Bottoms Up

Toe

• Toe the Line

Told

• A Little Bird Told Me

Tongue

• Cat Got Your Tongue

Too

• Stoop To
• Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth

Top

• Off the Top Of My Head

Touch

• Midas Touch, the

Tough

• Hang Tough

Towel

• Throw In the Towel

Tower

• Ivory Tower

Town

• Paint The Town Red

Track

• Wrong Side of the Tracks, the

Train

• Gravy Train

Travel

• Travel Light

Tree

• Bark Up the Wrong Tree
• Old Chestnut
• Talk the Bark Off a Tree

Trip

• Trip the Light Fantastic

Trouble

• Fish In Troubled Waters

Truck

• Just Fell Off the Turnip Truck

True

• Show Your True Colors, to

Trump

• Hold All The Aces

Truth

• Gospel Truth
• Take As Gospel
• Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Turn

• Every Time One Turns Around
• Make One’s Blood Run Cold
• Turn One’s Stomach
• Turn the Other Cheek

Two

• Two Left Feet
• Two Peas in a Pod, like
• Two Pennies to Rub Together, to not have