• get his measure measure of him

• the father and mother of

• fair and square

• a tower of strength

• a horse of a different colour

• shop around

• cover a multitude of sins

• run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

• a hair of the dog that bit you

• think better of it

• water under the bridge

• sleep around

• hammer away at it

• the flower of

• I his hour of need

• a fool's paradise

• after a fashion

• tear a strip off him him off a strip

• a matter of opinion

• square up with him

• in his hour of need

• fire away

• an odour of sanctity

• a matter of life and death

• knock around

• sick as a parrot

• then and there and then

• measure up to it

• that's my funeral

• in the nature of it

• a miscarriage of justice