These things drive me mad, me and a few colleagues have been listing the use of such phrases in our workplace, and over the last six month have observed the following.... 1. I had to bite my teeth 2. Throw the baby out with the bath water 3. Throwing the dummy out of the pram 4. Belts and braces 5. Smoke and mirrors 6. More than one way to skin a cat 7. We are coming out of the woods with it 8. Can of worms 9. Back at the ranch 10. Ploughing a different furrow 11. Animal not defined 12. Put the heads on it 13. Rat out 14. Keep the powder dry 15. Clear as a bell 16. Touch base 17. Light touch 18. Grab a few minutes 19. Blow it out of the water 20. Keeping our options open 21. Showing our hand 24. Burning bridges 25. Setting the agenda 26. Throw our balls in the ring 27. Swings and roundabouts 28. Jumping through the hoops 29. Ticks in the boxes 30. Hitting all the right buttons 31. Doing an Aunt Sally 32. Going around the fishbowl 33. Press the button 34. Put a lead foot on it 35. Top slice it 36. Chicken and egg 37. Pre-emptive strike 38. Hold the ring 39. Drilling Down 40. Shifting sands 41. Warts and all 42. Hold fire 43. Taking the bait 44. Have a desire for the greatest desire 45. Play it with a straight bat 46. Bread and rations 47. Putting wedges under our desks 48. The devil is in the detail 49. Raising the ante 50. Stars in the boxes 51. Not all the ducks are in their element 52. One hit consultation 53. Cutting the cake 54. Matricised table 55. Parachuting out of the blue 56. Sweating the asset 57. Turkeys voting for Christmas 58. Pushing an open door 59. All the ducks lined up 60. Currency of information 61. Singing from the right hymn sheet 62. Put a pound on it to paint your dog poo 63. A different way of skinning the cat 64. Double ended rapid transit 65. It’s just an Aunt Sally (variation of no.31) 66. Not trying to line a ditch 67. Pluck a finger in the air 68. Initialised it 69. One more driver in the armoury 70. Sit back and cross our hands 71. It’s a !!!!!!!ised version of… 72. It covers the whole bag 73. I bought the t –shirt on that one 74. Make a sea change 75. Lay the golden egg 76. Fighting them on the beaches 77. On the radar for attack 78. Not comparing apples with pears 79. It’s not a panacea 80. He left to avoid leaving 81. Chewing daggers 82. Gazing into our crystal balls 83. Need to put cold towels on your head 84. The bow tie stuff 85. Like mother with apple pie 86. Their starter for ten 87. Pinning our colours to the mast 88. If I’m not back by the time I get back…. 89. I’ve got repetitive strain syndrome! 90. Window of opportunity 91. Threw a grenade in 92. Turn the burners up 93. Fingers in the wind 94. One-ended football 95. Aks a question 96. Throwing buns around the room 97. Slowly, slowly catch a monkey 98. The meeting was worse than herding cats 99. Putting up a straw man 100. That’s a half invite 101. Standing around looking at our handbags 102. Fall off the end of the table 103. Friendly fire 104. A slightly obscene timescale 105. All the balls have been put back in the pot and are being kicked around 106. A nod and a wink 107. A semi helpful process 108. A reasonable brain on their head 109. Get your dirty washing out 110. Bless its cotton socks 111. Weasel words 112. Looser in the lower bowels 113. In the too hard box 114. A difficult birth 115. Chasing bunnies on Cannock Chase 116. Having our wheels washed 117. There is some italicised text 118. Keep our eyes on the horizon 119. This isn’t a cottage industry 120. If the pigs flew out of the window 121. Raising our heads over the parapet 122. The scores on the door 123. It’s a three sided cube 124. Nailing their colours to the mast 125. Shooting hares in an open field 126. Its like you have got a gun, that’s the RSS, and then you have a load of schemes, they are the bullets…the problem is that we don’t have a trigger, that’s the point when the schemes are needed so without the trigger we cant fire the gun 127. We need to amend the columnations 128. Winterisation 129. !!!! or get off the pot 130. Codeified map 131. Take the stopper off 132. Drop the gaps in 133. head it off at the pass any favourites? any more??