• play possum

• on swallow doesn't make a summer

• get the better of someone

• be something to do with it

• make something of it

• be hard put to it to do something

• take some doing

• an Indian summer

• give someone the third degree

• call someone's bluff

• out to do something

• hold him to ransom

• buy someone off

• can't hold a candle to someone

• make something of oneself

• midsummer madness

• a good Samaritan

• I that will teach him to be do something bad

• pick someone's brains

• in someone's good bok

• turn something upside down

• have something on

• I'll thank you to do something

• breathing down someone's neck

• play him off against someone else

• in terms of something

• twist someone's arm

• something tells me

• go overboard about something

• or something

• something's amiss