• riding high

• out of the frying-pan and into the fire

• bury one's head in the sand

• a standing joke

• keep one's hand in

• a shotgun wedding

• there is method in his madness

• a leading question

• dyed-in-the-wool

• be hand in glove

• put one's head in the lion's mouth

• go handing hand with

• according to schedule

• be rooted in it

• left holding the baby

• on a hiding to nothing

• a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

• have a hand in it

• put the fear of ggod into

• have a word in his ear

• go according to plan

• have a nodding acquaintance with it

• according to one's lights

• riding for a fall

• have one's head in the clouds

• the iron hand in the velvet glove

• get a word in edgeways

• put one's head in a noose

• the proof of the pudding is in the eating

• a leading light

• the blind leading the blind