• enough to try the patience of a saint

• set the wheels in motion

• call in into question

• a sense of proportion

• a leading question

• not to mention

• bone of contention

• make an exhibition of oneself

• a land of milk and honey

• the gnomes of Zurich

• the naked eye

• out of commission

• grasp the nettle

• ships that pass in the night

• in a delicate condition

• a happy hunting-ground

• a soft option

• rise to the occasion

• a piece of the action

• pay through the nose

• in mint condition

• cast caution to the wind

• after a fashion

• a pain in the neck

• in the name of him

• the sixty-four thousand dollar question

• on the never-never

• the nuts and bolts

• the exception proves the rule

• in the neighbourhood of

• run with the hare and hunt with the hounds