Top Idioms

Don't dip your pen in the company ink

Front office/back office

Elephant in the room

Catch a falling knife

Burning the midnight oil

boil the ocean

EDIT: Already posted

not playing with a full deck from the grapevine elvis has left the building

don't shit where you eat you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink

That's what she said

what what, in the butt

They pissed on the seat and now I have to take a shit

Never make decisions when you're angry, never make promises when you're happy.

That's not a fucking idiom. Just a common sense.

keep an ear to the ground water under the bridge

that shit might fly at banco popular, but not in my house

bros before hoes

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

hotter than 2 squirrels fucking in a wool sock

colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra

sweating like a whore in church

rode hard and put up wet

like a pig to mud

I like to fuck MILFs

Forest for the trees

Six of one, half a dozen of the other

That's the way the ball bounces

Playing with house money

“You don't get rich in this business, you only attain new levels of relative poverty. You think Gutfreund feels rich? I'll bet not."

One in the hand is worth more than two in the bush.

big for your britches

don't know your ass from a hole in the ground

that dog will hunt

pot calling the kettle black

six in one, half dozen in the other

wish in one hand, shit the other, see which one fills up first

not really an idiom, but "bless her heart" is a big one, which if you've never been around a southern family means "she's a fucking idiot"

and then a few idiotic business ones

level set

low hanging fruit

on my radar

par for the course

touch base

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I've always liked that one.

Best of both worlds

Best thing since sliced bread

Whole nine yards

closest alligator to the boat

(drops mic)

"Don't spin your wheels"

Every time my douchebag principal says this I want to cut his fucking tongue out.

Best:

We're not here to fuck spiders.

Off to the races.

Worst:

Ducks in a row.

when shit hits the fan

Coffee is for closers.

in two shakes of a lamb's tale

not in my wheel-house

There's nothing funnier than an IB Managing Director that uses these all day.

Off one's rocker Missed the boat Blank check Pull the wool over your eyes

Dog and pony show

I was wondering, how does a whore sweat in church ? I understand that's Southern...

dont look a gift horse in the mouth

Fucked up to be damned Raising all manners of hell Wheels off Clown car of fuckery Shot across the bow Deck chair off the Titanic Move the needle Throwin it from the cheap seats Misery loves company Cologne of desperation Couldn't sell their way out of a bag It is not your job to close the buffet, she will close it Ohh that girl will cut you (a compliment) Given it a good college try Right in the thick of the curve

This could go on and on

linchpin going to be a long putt kiss a lot of frogs

Mothrfcukrs are always trying to skate up hill.

This is relevant. Warning, may cause PTSD:

I've got a few more...

(Going) to Hell in a handbasket FUBAR

• I've used this a few times for when things have overshot the mark by a wide margin. Shaken, not stirred. - So much bad science and brilliant marketing for this one is just ruining great drinks for everyone. Not that it's a banking one in particular, just one that pisses me off in general. Don't know shit from Shinola

Not gonna lie, there is one that I'd love to see used more often - "Now go do, that voodoo that you do so well." - to end a meeting with.

"Free college for everyone"

Too many chefs spoils the broth. Buy the fckng dip

From back in the day when fairness trumped winning so everyone got to play:

"Don't pass it to Jimmy....he couldn't catch a cold with his pants off in Alaska...."

Putting lipstick on a dog / putting makeup on a pig, and calling it pretty

Drink the Kool-aid

Screwed the pooch

Open the kimono

Under the hood

Drill down

Spitball some ideas

Frosting a turd

Lots of things to do with the market: Shitting the bed Through the roof Dead cat bounce Dovish/hawkish Bull/bear Etc.

want a friend? Buy a dog

Hair of the dog

If the shoe fits

Sleep tight, don't let the shitbugs bite

You've punched your last ticket, amigo

the deuce in the urinal

Massage the numbers

Not the sharpest tool in the shed

"Open the kimono" - apparently super popular, though I hadn't heard it used until recently.