• go through it like a dose of salts

• don't bat an eyelid

• at the crack of dawn

• a grass widow

• sound off

• dawn on him

• ride roughshod over him

• a dose of his own medicine

• take his mind off it

• have the whip hand over him

• keep the wolf form the door

• a dog's life

• be top dog

• window-shopping

• as dead as a dodo

• the be all and the end all

• keep the wolf from the door

• El Dorado

• bend over backwards

• and all that

• next door to

• stand or fall by it

• not to be able to make head or tail of it

• worn to a shadow

• lie doggo

• at death's door

• dog eat dog

• two wrongs don't make a right

• warts and all

• dog Latin

• a dog in the manger