it was raining cats and dogs between a rock and a hard place so I drove him up the wall and down to the wire at the drop of a hat, an arm and a leg he lost his head for a piece of cake
so he went back to the drawing board for a taste of his own medicine with a chip on his shoulder tighter than dick's hat band he was off the hook on the fence over the top and out on a limb
singing I'm an idiom somebody's pulling my leg I'm an idiom you must be pulling my leg