1.At one's beck and call: Required to comply with someone's requests or commands; The boss expects the entire staff to be at his beck and call

2 The acid test; a test whose findings are beyond doubt or dispute or A crucial test to establish the worth or genuineness of something,good, effective
The senator doesn't look too popular just now, but the acid test will be if he gets reelected.

3.A bad hat; someone who deliberately stirs up trouble;

4.To call a spade a spade;to call something by its right name; to speak frankly about something, even if it is unpleasant;Let's call a spade a spade. The man is a liar.

5.To cry over the split milk;Do not be upset about making a mistake;Don't cry over spilt milk

6.Got up to kill

7.Taken down at peg; to reprimand someone who is acting too arrogant;He was so rude that someone was bound to knock him down a peg(Various quantities and qualities have been measured by the use of pegs)

8.To be on the carpet;to be in trouble with someone in authority;He's going to be on the carpet for his rudeness.

9.it never rains but it pour; When troubles come they come together;First of all it was the car breaking down, then the fire in the kitchen and now Mike's accident. It never rains but it pours!

10.To turn a deaf ear;to ignore what someone is saying;The Supreme Court said there was a need for action, but Congress has turned a deaf ear to the Court

11.To sail in the same boat; sharing the same problems; In the same situation or predicament; in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat