Farberisms starting with i

I accept it with both barrels.
I apologize on cringed knees.
I came within a hair's breathe of it.
I can do it with one eye tied behind me.
I can remember everything -- I have a pornographic mind.
I can't hum a straight tune.
I case my ground very well before I jump into it.
I come to you on bended bootstrap.
I contributed to the charity of my cause.
I could count it on the fingers of one thumb.
I could tell you stories that would curdle your hair.
I did it sitting flat on my back.
I don't always play with a full house of cards.
I don't know which dagger to clothe it in.
I don't like the feel of this ball of wax.
I don't want to be the pie that upset the applecart.
I don't want to cast a pall on the water.
I don't want to start hurdling profanity.
I don't want to stick my hand in the mouth that's feeding me.
I don't want to throw a wrench in the ointment.
I enjoy his smiling continence.
I flew it by ear.
I got you by the nap of your neck.
I guess I'd better get my duff on the road.
I guess I'm putting all my birds in one pie.
I guess that muddled the waters.
I had her by the nap of the neck.
I had to make a split decision.
I had to scratch in the back recesses of my memory.
I had to throw in the white flag.
I have a green thumb up to my elbow.
I have a rot-gut feeling about that.
I have feedback on both sides of the coin.
I have my neck hung out on an open line.
I have no personal bones to grind about it.
I have people crawling out of my ears.
I have post-naval drip.
I have reasonably zero desire to do it.
I have the self-discipline of a mouse.
I have to get my guts up.
I have too many cooks in the pot already.
I haven't bitten off an easy nut.
I haven't gotten the knack down yet.
I hear the handwriting on the wall.
I heard it out of the corner of my eyes.
I just pulled those out of the seat of my pants.
I keep stubbing my shins.
I know what we have to do to get our feet off the ground.
I listen with a very critical eye.
I looked at it with some askance.
I march to a different kettle of fish.
I only hear half of what I believe.
I only hope your every wish is desired.
I only mentioned it to give you another side of the horse.
I only read it in snips and snabs.
I owe you a great gratitude of thanks.
I pulled my feet out from under my rug.
I put all my marbles in one basket.
I read the sign, but it went in one ear and out the other.
I resent the insinuendoes.
I rushed around like a chicken out of my head.
I said it beneath my breath.
I see several little worms raising their heads around the corner.
I speak only with olive branches dripping from the corners of my mouth.
I think I've committed a fore paw.
I think he's gone over the bend.
I think that we are making an out-and-out molehill of this issue.
I think the real crux is the matter.
I thought I'd fall out of my gourd.
I want half a cake and eat it too.
I want to embark upon your qualms.
I want to get more fire into the iron.
I want to get to know them on a face-to-name basis.
I want to go into that at short length.
I want to see him get a good hands-on feel.
I was working my balls to the bone.
I wish somebody could drop the other foot.
I won't hang my laurels on it.
I won't kick a gift horse in the mouth.
I worked my toes to the bonenail.
I would imagine he chafes a bit.
I wouldn't give it to a wet dog.
I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.
I wouldn't take him on a ten foot pole.
I wouldn't want to be sitting in his shoes.
I'd better get my horse on it's ass.
I'd better jack up my bootstraps and get going.
I'd have been bent out of shape like spades.
I'd kill a dog to bite that man.
I'd like to intersperse a comment.
I'd like to put another foot into the pot.
I'd like to strike while the inclination is hot.
I'd rather be tight than right.
I'll be ready just in case a windfall comes down the pike.
I'll be there in the next foreseeable future.
I'll be there with spades one.
I'll bet there's one guy out in the woodwork.
I'll descend on them to the bone.
I'll fight him hand and nail.
I'll hit him right between the teeth.
I'll procrastinate when I get around to it.
I'll reek the benefits.
I'll see it when I believe it.
I'll stay away from that like a 10-foot pole.
I'll take a few pegs out of his sails.
I'll take any warm body in a storm.
I'm a mere fragment of my imagination.
I'm all ravelled up.
I'm basking in his shadow.
I'm burning my bridges out from under me!
I'm casting the dye on the face of the water.
I'm collapsing around the seams.
I'm creaking at the seams.
I'm creaming off the top of my head.
I'm deathly curious.
I'm flapping at the gills.
I'm going off tangentially.
I'm going right out of my bonker.
I'm going right over the bend.
I'm going to cast my rocks to the wind.
I'm going to down-peddle that aspect.
I'm going to feel it out by the ear.
I'm going to litigate it to the eyeballs.
I'm going to put a little variety in your spice of life.
I'm going to put my horn in.
I'm going to read between your lines.
I'm going to resolve it by ear.
I'm going to scatter them like chaff before the wind.
I'm going to scream right out of my gourd.
I'm going to take my vendetta out on them.
I'm going to take my venom out on you.
I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut.
I'm ground up to a high pitch.
I'm having a hard time getting my handles around that one.
I'm in my reclining years.
I'm in transit on that point.
I'm listening with baited ears.
I'm looking at it with a jaundiced ear.
I'm not going to bail him out of his own juice.
I'm not going to beat a dead horse to death.
I'm not going to get side tracked onto a tangent.
I'm not sure it's my bag of tea.
I'm not sure we're all speaking from the same sheet of music.
I'm not trying to grind anybody's axes.
I'm out of my bloomin' loon.
I'm over the hilt.
I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles.
I'm pulling something over on you.
I'm ready to go when the bell opens.
I'm running around like a one-armed paper bandit.
I'm signing my own death knell.
I'm sitting on the edge of my ice.
I'm smarting at the seams.
I'm soaked to the teeth.
I'm standing over your shoulder.
I'm sticking my neck out on a ledge.
I'm stone cold sane.
I'm talking up a dead alley.
I'm throwing those ideas to you off the top of my hat.
I'm too uptight for my own bootstraps.
I'm up a wrong alley.
I'm up against a blind wall.
I'm up to my earballs in garbage.
I'm walking on cloud nine.
I'm walking on thin water.
I'm weighted down with baited breath.
I'm willing to throw my two cents into the fire.
I'm working my blood up into a fervor.
I'm wound up like a cork.
I'm your frontface in this matter.
I've been burning the midnight hours.
I've built enough fudge into that factor.
I've got applicants up to the ears.
I've got to put my duff to the grindstone.
I've had it up to the hilt.
I've had more girls than you've got hair between your teeth.
I've milked that dead end for all it's worth.
I've worked my shins to the bone.
If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
If anything, I bend over on the backwards side.
If the onus fits, wear it.
If the shoe fits, put it in your mouth.
If the shoe is on the other foot, wear it.
If there's no fire, don't make waves.
If they do it there won't be a living orgasm left.
If they do that, they'll be committing suicide for the rest of their lives.
If they had to stand on their own two feet, they would have gone down the drain a long time ago.
If we keep going this way, somebody is going to be left standing at the church with his pants on.
If you ask him he could wax very quickly on that subject.
If you don't want words put in your mouth, don't leave it hanging open.
If you listen in the right tone of voice, you'll hear what I mean.
If you see loose strings that have to be tied down that are not nailed up, see me about it.
If you want something bad enough, you have to pay the price.
If you want to be heard, go directly to the horse's ear.
If you want to get your jollies off, watch this!
If you'd let me, I'd forget the shirt off my back.
If you're going to break a chicken, you have to scramble a few eggs.
In one mouth and out the other.
In this period of time, its getting very short.
In this vein I will throw out another item for Pandoras' box.
Indiscretion is the better part of valor.
Is he an Amazon!
Is there any place we can pull a chink out of the log jam?
It cuts like a hot knife through solid rock.
It drove me to no wits end.
It fills a well-needed gap.
It floated right to the bottom.
It flows like water over the stream.
It gets grained into you.
It goes from one gamut to another.
It goes from tippy top to tippy bottom.
It goes in one era and out the other.
It goes out one ear and in the other.
It got left out in the lurch.
It has more punch to the unch.
It hit me to the core.
It hit the epitome of it.
It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed at all.
It leaks like a fish.
It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while.
It looks real enough to be artificial.
It may seem incredulous, but it's true.
It might break the straw that holds the camel's back.
It might have been a figment of my illusion.
It rolls off her back like a duck.
It runs the full width of the totem pole.
It sounds like roses to my ears.
It sure hits the people between the head.
It was a heart-rendering decision.
It was a maelstrom around his neck.
It was deja vu all over again.
It was oozing right out of the lurches.
It was really amazing to see the spectra of people there.
It went through the palm of my shoe.
It will spurn a lot of furious action.
It will take a while to ravel down.
It' not an easy thing to get your teeth around.
It's a Byzantine thicket of quicksand.
It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing.
It's a fiat accompli.
It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing.
It's a hairy banana.
It's a hairy can of worms.
It's a home of contention.
It's a lot like recumbent DNA.
It's a lot of passed water under the bridge.
It's a mare's nest in sheep's clothing.
It's a mecca of people.
It's a monkey wrench in your ointment.
It's a new high in lows.
It's a road of hard knocks.
It's a sight for sore ears.
It's a slap in the chaps.
It's a tempest in a teacup.
It's a terrible crutch to bear.
It's a tough nut to hoe.
It's a tough road to haul.
It's a travesty to the human spirit.
It's a typical case of alligator mouth and hummingbird ass.
It's a useful ace in the pocket.
It's a white elephant around my neck.
It's a white herring.
It's about 15 feet as the eye flies.
It's about as satisfactory as falling off a log.
It's all above and beyond board.
It's all in knowing when to let a dead horse die.
It's all water under the dam.
It's always better to be safe than have your neck out on a limb.
It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody.
It's another millstone in the millpond of life.
It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
It's as flat as a door knob.
It's as predictable as cherry pie.
It's bouncing like a greased pig.
It's burned to shreds.
It's crumbling at the seams.
It's enough to make you want to rot your socks.
It's going to bog everybody up.
It's going to fall on its ass from within.
It's got all the bugs and whistles.
It's hanging out like a sore tongue.
It's like a greased pig in a wet blanket.
It's like a knife through hot butter.
It's like a raft on roller skates.
It's like asking a man to stop eating in the middle of a starvation diet.
It's like harnessing a hare to a tortoise.
It's like pulling hen's teeth.
It's like talking to a needle in a haystack.
It's like the flood of the Hesperis.
It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel.
It's like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
It's more than the mind can boggle.
It's music to your eyes.
It's no chip off my clock.
It's no skin off my stiff upper lip.
It's no sweat off my nose.
It's not an easy thing to get your teeth wet on.
It's not completely an unblessed advantage.
It's not his bag of tea.
It's not my Diet of Worms.
It's not my cup of pie.
It's not really hide nor hair.
It's one more cog in the wheel.
It's perfect, but it will have to do.
It's raining like a bandit.
It's right on the tip of my head.
It's sloppy mismanagement.
It's so clean, you could drop a pin. [Not attributed to Farber, but I like it.]
It's so unbelievable you wouldn't believe it.
It's something you're all dying to wait for.
It's the blind leading the deaf.
It's the greatest little seaport in town.
It's the old Paul Revere bit . . . one if by two and two if by one.
It's the old chicken-in-the-egg problem.
It's the other end of the kettle of fish.
It's the straw that broke the ice.
It's the the highest of the lows.
It's the vilest smell I ever heard.
It's time to take off our gloves and talk from the heart.
It's under closed doors.
It's within the pall of reason.
It's wrought with problems.
It's your ball of wax, you unravel it.
Its coming down like buckets outside.

Farberisms starting with i

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