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1. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
2. To play second fiddle
3. A man of straw
4. We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
5. To wrangle over an asss shadow :
6. To set one's face against
7. out and out
8. To flog a dead horse :
9. To play fast and loose :
10. Will o the wisp :
11. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
12. To set the thames on fire :
13. To pull ones socks up :
14. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
15. The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
16. He is on the wrong side of seventy .
17. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.
18. To show the white feather :
19. To cast pearls before a swine :
20. To have an axe to grind .
21. To cut the gordian knot :
22. To pick holes
23. The convict claimed innocence and stood his ground in spite of the repeated accusations.
24. To cry wolf .
25. Hard-pressed :
26. To mind ones Ps and Qs :
27. As fit as a fiddle
28. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it .
29. To smell a rat
30. Harp on :