Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.