| Shoulder to the wheel | | |
| Nose to the grindstone | | |
| Brown-nosing | | |
| 101 | | |
| Heard it around the water cooler | | |
| The grapevine | | |
| In the pipeline | | |
| The top banana | | |
| The salt of the earth | | |
| It's a piece of cake | | |
| feather in one's cap | | |
| little birdie told me | | |
| new broom sweeps clean | | |
| matter of opinion | | |
| long shot | | |
| month of Sundays | | |
| sucking up | | |
| clean out the dead wood | | |
| golden parachutes | | |
| picking up the slack | | |
| window-dressing | | |
| sell-by date | | |
| get the chop | | |