• look to one's laurels

• for a start

• the silent majority

• for a song

• for a kick-off

• moral support

• keep it for a rainy day

• rest on one's laurels

• in for a penny in for a pound

• like looking for a needle in a haystack

• a merry-go-round

• riding for a fall

• spoil the ship for a ha'porch of tar

• pride goes before a fall

• save it for a rainy day

• in cold storage

• take him for a ride

• or other

• birthright for a mess of pottage

• hit score a bull's eye