When you are extremely desperate you need to take drastic actions.
Drastic times call for drastic measures
To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation.
Add insult to injury
This is used when someone does not want to choose or make a decision.
Sit on the fence
A job, task or other activity that is easy or simple.
Piece of cake
Be happy when a person leaves.
Be glad to see the back of
Crazy, demented, out of one's mind, in a confused or befuddled state of mind, senile.
Off one's rocker
It is up to you to make the next decision or step
Ball is in your court
This means not to take what someone says too seriously.
Take with a grain of salt
Be optimistic, even difficult times will lead to better days.
Every cloud has a silver lining
People's intentions can be judged better by what they do than what they say.
Actions speak louder than words
Do not put all your resources in one possibility.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
This idiom is used to say that someone missed his or her chance
Miss the boat
When you complain about a loss from the past.
Cry over spilt milk
Everything. All of it.
Whole nine yards
To share information that was previously concealed
Let the cat out of the bag
Someone who lacks intelligence.
Not playing with a full deck
To take the credit for something someone else did.
Steal someone's thunder
A good invention or innovation. A good idea or plan.
Best thing since sliced bread
Cannot judge something primarily on appearance.
Can't judge a book by its cover
Meaning: Feeling slightly ill.
Feel a bit under the weather
A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.
Picture paints a thousand words
Looking in the wrong place. Accusing the wrong person
Barking up the wrong tree
Keep something away.
Keep something at bay
This expression is used when the person you have just been talking about arrives.
Speak of the devil!
Join a popular trend or activity.
Jump on the bandwagon
This idiom is used to say that two (or more people) agree on something.
See eye to eye
Do or say something exactly right
Hit the nail on the head
Meaning: All the advantages.
Best of both worlds
To have no idea, do not know the answer to a question
Your guess is as good as mine
The final problem in a series of problems.
Last straw
When an attempt fails and it's time to start all over.
Back to the drawing board
Actions or communications need more than one person
It takes two to tango
This idiom means, to accomplish two different things at the same time.
Kill two birds with one stone
Meaning - do not disturb a situation as it is - since it would result in trouble or complications.
Let sleeping dogs lie
Believe someone's statement, without proof.
Give the benefit of the doubt
Being Inquisitive can lead you into an unpleasant situation.
Curiosity killed the cat
Come to the point - leave out details
Make a long story short
This means to deceive someone into thinking well of them.
Put wool over other people's eyes
Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.
Beat around the bush
This idiom is used when something is very expensive.
Costs an arm and a leg
This idiom means 'to hear rumors' about something or someone.
Hear it on the grapevine
Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are talking about and which is usually disputed
A hot potato
When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.
Caught between two stools
To present a counter argument
Devil's Advocate
Meaning: Happens very rarely.
Once in a blue moon
Deal with a problem if and when it becomes necessary, not before.
Cross that bridge when you come to it
To work late into the night, alluding to the time before electric lighting.
Burn the midnight oil
When someone understands the situation well.
On the ball
A way of asking what someone is thinking
A penny for your thoughts
You are not very good at something. You could definitely not do it professionally.
Don't give up the day job
Means that something happens to you, or is done to you, that you have done to someone else
Taste of your own medicine
The show has come to an end. It's all over.
Elvis has left the building
When something is done badly to save money.
Cut corners
To succeed; to come up to expectations; adequate enough to compete or participate
Cut the mustard [possibly derived from "cut the muster"]
Overwhelmed by what is happening in the moment.
In the heat of the moment
Meaning: without any hesitation; instantly.
At the drop of a hat
To take on a task that is way to big.
Bite off more than you can chew
Something good that isn't recognized at first.
Blessing in disguise
Very different from.
Far cry from
An assertion that, despite one's approach seeming random, there actually is structure to it.
Method to my madness
To go to bed.
Hit the sack / sheets / hay
Would never like to do something
Wouldn't be caught dead
This idiom is used to express "Don't make plans for something that might not happen".
Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched