English idioms about time and life.
Idioms about patience, change, luck and the way life goes.
Idioms
- As old as the hills
- Death pays all debts
- Every day is not Sunday
- Fortune favours fools
- God never sends mouths but he sends meat
- Habit cures habit
- Other times, other manners
- Rob the cradle
- Something is better than nothing
- What goes up must come down
- Wet behind the ears
- After rain comes fair weather
- Better luck next time
- Bitter pills may have blessed effects
- Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
- Lucky at cards, unlucky in love
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Man proposes, God disposes
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
- No rose without a thorn
- The die is cast
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Time cures all pains
- Time is money
- We reap what we sow
- What will be, will be
- While there's life, there's hope
- With age comes wisdom
- You're only young once
- Let the chips fall where they may
- A dog's life
- You reap what you sow
- Wait and see
- Time will tell
- That ship has sailed
- Sit tight
- Right off the bat
- Push your luck
- Cross your fingers
- In the nick of time
- Out of the blue
- A change is as good as a rest
- The calm before the storm
- A watched pot never boils
- The best things in life are free
- Live and learn
- At the drop of a hat
- Hold your horses
- Every rose has its thorn
- A blessing in disguise
- A stitch in time saves nine
- Come rain or shine
- Cross that bridge when you come to it
- Every dog has its day
- Strike while the iron is hot
- As you sow, so shall you reap
- Better late than never
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Old habits die hard
- Once in a blue moon
- Rome wasn't built in a day
- Slow and steady wins the race
- Time flies