Food chain?
Food chain can be used as a metaphor points to your particular position in the social hierarchy.
Follow the money?
If you follow where all the money goes and to whom, you’ll find the root of all problems in politics today.
Behind the eight ball again?
“Behind the eight ball” refers to a position of difficulty from which one is unlikely to extricate themselves.
Reading the riot act?
Reading the riot act means giving someone a strong warning – before further actions are taken against them as punishment.
Keep his power dry?
In the old days soldiers keep a bag of powders as today’s soldiers carry a supply of metal bullets as ammunition.
Raw end of the deal?
People who get the raw end of the deal are harshly, especially unfairly treated.
Finest hour?
“Finest hour” means the best hour, the moment when something happens that makes your day.
Running up the white flag?
Shoppers running up the white flag means they’re losing the battle against such enemies as inflation, wage freezes and job insecurity.
An endless balancing act
It is a process of doing several jobs at the same time and making sure all jobs are done well, equally well.
Time to call time on cheap, strong alcohol
To call time on something is to say time is up, the game is over and let’s call it a day.
Worth the candle?
It means the gains made from getting some job done won’t be enough to buy the oil burnt from the lamp during the process.
Ebbs and flows
It is used to describe things in life that are affected by such cycles of high and low, up and down.
Train of thought
Train of thought, which, by the way, means a series of connected thoughts developing in one’s mind.
Fair game
Fair play? That means behavior that’s in accordance with rules of a game.
Smoke and mirrors?
Smoke and mirrors, you see, stand for deception, something that blurs or distorts facts.