• from the word go

• on the wagon

• drive him up the wall

• be on the watch for it

• take the wind out of his sails

• any old how

• throw a snapper in the works

• keep the wolf from the door

• come out in the wash

• keep open house

• and how

• people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

• put one's shoulders to the wheel

• like a house on fire

• with the best will in the world

• give it the once-over

• on the wane

• the front of the house

• have the whip hand

• all the world's a stage

• the parting of the ways

• blow the whistle on him

• oil the wheels

• backs to the wall

• none the wiser

• have the whip hand over him

• eat him out of house and home

• without prejudice to it

• by the way

• at the eleventh hour

• how come