One fell swoop: Suddenly; in a single action
In my mind’s eye: One's visual memory or imagination
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger: a person or thing that is viewed more with sadness than with anger.
To be in a pickle: In a quandary (dilemma) or some other difficult position.
Bag and baggage: All of one's possessions.
Vanish into thin air: Disappear without trace.
Not budge an inch: to refuse to change your opinion or agree to even very small changes that another person wants
Play fast and loose: Be inconstant and unreliable.
To be led down the primrose path: idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or led astray, often by a hypocrite. The primrose path also refers to someone living a life of luxury apparently linking primroses to libertine indulgence.
The milk of human kindness: Care and compassion for others.
Remembrance of things past: records the decay of a society.
To thine own self be true: be true to yourself
Cold comfort: if something someone tells you to make you feel better about a bad situation is cold comfort, it does not make you feel better
To beggar all description: to defy description; to be unable to be described
Salad days: The days of one's youthful inexperience.
Flesh and blood: the quality of being alive; one's own relatives; one's own kin
Foul play: Dishonest or treacherous behaviour; also violent conduct.
Tower of strength: a person who can always be depended on to provide support and encouragement, especially in times of trouble
To be cruel to be kind: something that you say when you do something to someone that will upset them now because you think it will help them in the future
Eat (somebody) out of house and home: to eat most of the food that someone has in their house.
Pomp and circumstance: formal ceremony.
Foregone conclusion: Cliché a conclusion already reached; an inevitable result.
Full circle: Back to one's starting point
Method in the madness: If there's method in someone's madness, they do things in a strange and unorthodox way, but manage to get results.
Neither rhyme nor reason: Cliché without logic, order, or planning. (Describes something disorganized. *Typically: be ~; have ~.)
It smells to (high) heaven: to smell very bad
A sorry sight: A regrettable and unwelcome aspect or feature. Now also used to mean something or someone of untidy appearance.
Strange bedfellows: unexpected partners.
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