Terrifically big list of C clichés

Caca me me scheme

Call a spade a spade

Call it a day

Call off the dogs

Call someone on the carpet

Call the shots

Can it!

Can of corn

Can of whoop ass, Open (up) a

Can of worms, Open (up) a

Can’t have your cake and eat it too, You

Can’t hold a candle to

Can’t judge a book by its cover, You

Can’t learn to swim without getting in the water, You  Sweden

Can’t say enough about him, You

Can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip, You

Can’t teach an old dog new tricks, You

Carry the team

Case of the dancer blaming the stage. A,  India

Cash cow

Cash in your chips

Cash is king

Cash it in

Cast a very long shadow

Cat got your tongue?

Cat nap

Cat on a hot tin roof

Catch (Get) my drift?

Catch a falling knife

Catch forty (40) winks

Catch on

Catching some ZZZ’s

Cat’s meow, The

Cat’s whiskers, The

Caught me off guard

Caught like a bird on a wire

Caught with his pants down

Caught with your hand in the cookie jar

Chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link

Champagne tastes and a beer budget

Change your tune

Changes hands

Chatty Cathy

Cheap date

Cheap shot

Cheap trick

Chew on

Chew out

Chew the fat

Chewing nails and spitting tacks

Chief cook and bottle washer

Childs play

Chill out

Chip in

Chip off the old block

Chip on your shoulder

Chomping at the bit

Clean bill of health

Clean sweep

Clean your clock

Clear as a bell

Clear as mud

Clear the air

Climbing the walls

Clock is ticking, The

Close call

Close early and often

Close ranks

Close to the bone

Clucking and Bucking with the other Hens

Clue me in

Coast to coast

Cock and bull story

Coin a phrase

Cold as a witch’s tit

Cold as cucumber

Cold as ice

Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

Cold feet

Cold shoulder

Colder than a well digger’s ass

Collared

Come across

Come again?

Come hell or high water

Come in under the wire

Come out of the closet

Coming down in buckets

Coming down the pike

Compare apple and oranges

Compare apples to apples

Complete picture, The

Cookie cutter

Cooking with gas (now)

Cool as a cucumber

Cool your heels

Cool your jets

Cop it sweet  Australia

Copy that

Couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper sack (bag)

Couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag

Cover my ass

Cowboy up

Crack down

Crack the code

Crack the nut

Crack the whip

Cracking up

Crap shoot, A

Crazy as a loon

Crazy like a fox be

Cream of the crop

Crime doesn’t pay

Crocodile tears

Cross the line

Cry all the way to the bank

Cry me a river

Cry over spilled milk

Cry uncle

Cry wolf

Curb your enthusiasm

Curiosity killed the cat

Cut a (the) rug

Cut and dry

Cut corners

Cut it out

Cut it

Cut off your nose to spite your face

Cut the cheese

Cut the mustard

Cut to the chase

Cut your losses

Cut your teeth

Cute as a button, As

Cuts like a knife

Cuts to the core

Cuts to the quick

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