Water Sayings
- A drop in the bucket
- A flood of tears
- A stepping stone to..
- Blood is thicker than water
- Bogged down
- Break the ice
- Crying buckets
- Don't change horses in mid stream
- Down the drain
- Feeling swamped
- Finding your sea legs
- Get your feet wet
- Get your ducks in a row
- Having a ripple effect
- Icy stare
- If a crocodile deserts the water, he will find himself on a spear (Africa)
- You won't miss the water till the well runs dry
- Wet your whistle
- When it rains it pours
- When our ship comes in
- Tip of the iceberg
- Like a duck to water
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
- In hot water
- It's all water under the bridge
- Jump in with both feet
- Like water off a duck's back
- Make a big splash
- Mind in a fog
- On cloud nine
- One hand washes the other
- Raining cats and dogs
- Sink or swim
- Somebody is all wet
- Something smells fishy
- Something snowballs
- Steamed up
- Still waters run deep
- The well's run dry
- Took, hook, line and sinker
- Treading water
- Troubled waters
- Watered down
- Wet behind the ears
- With too many rowers the ship will crash into the mountain (Japan)
- Skating on thin ice
- We'll cross that bride when we get there
- Madder than a wet hen
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