• if you can't beat'em join'em

• you never can tell

• have no use for it

• beat you to it

• a redbrick university

• what do you know

• first refusal

• use one's loaf

• a point of view

• with a view to it

• jump the queue

• you never know

• my heart bleeds for you

• a man woman of few many words

• beauty is in the eye of the beholder

• you have got to hand it to him

• at face value

• you can say that again

• of repute

• I told you so

• bite off more than you can chew

• as stubborn as a mule

• right you are

• what you win on the swings you lose on the roundabouts

• shame on you

• you name it he's got it

• put it behind you

• be a tribute to it

• funny peculiar

• you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

• you could have knocked me down with a feather