I had no idea where most of these saying came from. How many did you know? What favorite did I miss?
1 - Pound of flesh The
Merchant of Venice
2 - Nothing
but skin and bones Job 19:19-20
3- I
escaped by the skin of my teeth Job 19:19-20
4 - Give the devil his due I
Henry IV
5 - Rise
and shine Isaiah 60:1
6 - Apple
of his Eye Deuteronomy 32:10
7 - Milk of human kindness Macbeth
8 - Vanish into thin air Othello
9- Too much of a good thing As You Like It
10- Twinkling
of an eye Corinthians 15
11 - A
little bird told me Matthew 16:23
12 - Come what may Macbeth
13 - Good riddance Troilus
and Cressida
14 - Cold comfort The
Taming of the Shrew
15 - At
my wit's end Psalm 107:27
16 - Something wicked this way
comes Macbeth
17 - You
Don't Know the Half of It 1 Kings 10:7
18 - Neither here nor there Othello
19 - Drop
in the bucket Romans 13:2
20 - Nothing
new under the sun EEC 1:9
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