Pussy-footin' around meant you were messing around and not getting the job done fast enough.
Lying through your teeth meant that you were seriously lying.
A hop, skip, and a jump was a measure of a short distance.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire meant going from bad to worse.
He was stuck to her like white on rice, meant he couldn't get enough of being close to her. He was stuck up her butt means the same thing.
You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.
There are more ways than one to skin a cat.
Some of these seem so second nature that it would seem everybody has heard them before, but I know that is not true.