He held down the job

While I was in the bank a man shouted "This is a hold-up!"

He was all fingers and thumbs

She spoke in riddles

He's very trying

I've got pins and needles

They're making whoopie

She's in the land of nod

They're crocodile tears

He held all the aces

A stitch in time saves nine

She was at sixes and sevens

It's a baker's dozen

It happened at the eleventh hour

She worked nine to five

He was on cloud nine

He was on all fours

She was three sheets to the wind

I'll do it in two shakes of a lamb's tail

He's learning the three r's

i'm going to have forty winks

I don't give two hoots