From Hot Shots: “It looks like the upper hand is on the other foot!”
“Well, you just have to take the sweet with the bitter.”
Actually, it’s “you have to take the BITTER with the SWEET,” meaning that even if your life is absolutely stuffed with sweet things, eventually you will experience something bitter…or, as I would try to explain to my ex-husband, “the idea is that you WANT the sweet and NOT the bitter–not the other way around.”
Sheesh…
You’ve buttered your bread, now you have to lie in it.
My husband uses, “He bit the farm.” for dead. It makes me laugh even after 17 years.
Every cloud has its thorn.
Not a metaphor, but I have been known to say “I have not yet begun to give up the ship!”
I have a friend who does this on purpose and he claims I’m the only one who ever notices. I think I’m the only who points it out. A common one from him is: Six of one, a dime a dozen.
And: We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Do not judge a book by it’s cover.
What goes around, comes around.
I had a friend who always said “Half of one, six dozen of the other.”
I do these two intentionally:
Sticking your neck out on a limb.
Treading a slippery slope of thin ice.
It’s always darkest before the silver lining.
You can’t pull the wool out from under my nose!
The road to hell is paved with gold.
Pull a Rabbit out of your ass.
“You can lead a gift horse to water, but you can’t look him in the mouth.”
-Archie Bunker
Once the shoe drops on the other foot, you can’t put the genie back into the can of worms.