More idioms

[as good as go] {adv. phr.}

In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as good's do this," for, I may as well do this. Only heard among the illiterate.

[as it comes]

1. As is.

/Reese takes life as it comes./

2. {adv. phr.} Instinctively, by intuition.

/I write as it comes to me. I often don't know exactly what I think until I see it on paper./

[bank-bill] {n. phr.}

A bank-note.

Neither Johnson nor the other lexicographers have the term bank-note, though they all have bank-bill, which Johnson defines, "a note for money laid up in a bank, at the sight of which the money is paid."

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[brake a leg]

Is said to actors for good luck before they go on stage, especially on an opening nights.

One of the interpretaions of "break a leg" is wishing to "make a strenuous effort".

What is the meaning of this expression — "corn hustler"?

There is Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom is insulted by being called a corn hustler.

[crying shame] {n. phr.}

A glaring disgrace, scandal, injustice.

[drive up] {v. phr.}

To drive north by car.

[fat is in the fire]

~[game over], [game is up]

The situation is in crisis.

{literally} because sth. or someone has [poured oil on the flames] or [added fuel to the fire].

[fools rush in where angels fear to tread] {proverb}

The idiom is used where people who are inexperienced or lack knowledge do something that more informed people would avoid.

[go around the barn at high noon] {v. phr.}

To use indirect ways of doing sth. when it is quite not necessary.

To shift, contrive to avoid sth.

See:

[all around Robin Hood's barn]