• broad shoulders

• throw one's hat into the ring

• have broad shoulders

• be like water off a duck's back

• throw him to the lions

• a straw in the wind

• more or less

• a narrow squeak

• put him in the wrong

• the end of the road

• get hold of the wrong end of the stick

• balloon out of control

• throw a snapper in the works

• for all one is worth

• a free-for-all

• in the throes of it

• it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back

• get on the wrong side of

• Rome was not built in a day

• clutch at straws

• throw cold water on

• have one's wires crossed

• neither hide nor hair or it

• cross that bridge when we come to it

• a dripping roast

• throw it off

• the skull and crossbones

• not to put a foot wrong

• a straw poll

• have a hard row to hoe

• a shot across the bow