• name dropping

• keep one's finger on the pulse

• crocodile tears

• a lick and a promise

• have a frog in one's throat

• a heart-throb

• put one's finger on it

• rule with a rod of iron

• a drop of the hard stuff

• daylight robbery

• back to the drawing-board

• set the heather on fire

• lay down your arms

• drop in

• at the drop of a hat

• the Jolly Roger

• their on curtain

• spare the rod and spoil the child

• bring pressure to bear on him

• in all probability

• in the raw

• a drop in the bucket

• you could hear a pin drop

• drop off

• let it drop

• El Dorado

• throw cold water on

• rob Peter to pay Paul

• drop by

• there are no two ways about it

• drop out