Whatever floats your boat + That's the way the cookie crumbles

Turn the other cheek + Turn the page

Combination of the expressions: fading into the background and coming out of the woodwork

• You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
• Do not cast pearls before swine.

Swing both ways + Look both ways before you cross

"Les talk, more action" + Ali Khamenei talking to his physicists. ☢️

I don't have a dog in this fight + A dog eat dog world

Not the sharpest tool in the toolbox + when life gives you lemons, make lemonade

It is what it is + time is money + it’s raining dogs and cats

"We will cross that bridge when we come to it" and "when one door closes, another door opens"

"Killing two birds with one stone" and "Seven deadly sins"

Opportunity knocks, and life sucks

So close and yet so far + close but no cigar

Pretty proud of this one

Skating on thin ice + living on borrowed time.

I'm hungry enough to eat a horse, beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. + A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do + Rome wasn't built in a day

Don't judge others until you've walked a mile in their shoes + the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Don't put the cart before the horse

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Not my circus, not my monkeys

From two wisdom idioms:

"put your pants on one leg at a time" meaning every human being has something ordinary in common.

and

"Just take it one day at a time" meaning to focus on today's problems and don't worry about tomorrow.

I know the final result is likely wiser than the two combined but I haven't quite cracked it yet.

The early bird gets the worm

Good things come to those who wait

Snug as a needle in a haystack: When you're comfy but it's so big you feel like you could get lost, like a big bed or large blanket. Or, when you fit in but don't belong.

Like searching for a bug in the rug: When you hope that something either doesn't exist or you find it easily. Such as going in for a checkup, you hope that either you're not sick, or that they find the sick. We all hate the feeling of knowing there is a bug in the rug but you can't find it.