A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.