F

Face the music, [193]

Face is her fortune, [27]

Faint heart never won fair lady, [143]

Fair and softly goes far, [12]

Fair words butter no parsnips, [149]

Fair words never did harm, [179]

Fall between two stools, to, [59]

Familiarity breeds contempt, [3]

Far fetched, [13]

Fault confessed, half redressed, [182]

Feather one’s nest, to, [44], [126]

Findings keepings, [195]

Fine clothes do not fill stomach, [52]

Fine feathers make fine birds, [35]

Finishing stroke, [83]

Finger in every pie, [168]

First catch your hare, [182]

First come, first served, [95], [194]

First in the field, [95]

Fish, flesh, nor fowl, [58]

Fish in troubled waters, [102]

Fish out of water, like a, [191]

Fish to fry, other, [63]

Fit to a T, [134]

Fits and starts, to work by, [33], [43], [209]

Fix, to be in a, [101], [185]

Flash in the pan, [122]

Flesh and blood, in, [58]

Flesh creep, to make one’s, [58]

Fool’s bolt is soon shot, a, [148]

Fools have the best luck, [129]

Foot foremost, to put one’s best, [186]

Foot in it, to put one’s, [189]

Forewarned, forearmed, [26]

Fortune knocks once, [129]

Fox to keep the geese, to set, [153]

Free and easy, [3], [135]

French leave, to take, [123]

Friend at court, [14]

Friend in need is a friend indeed, [13], [37]

Frying-pan into the fire, to fall from, [47], [64], [122]

Fuel to the fire, to add, [146]

Funky, to be, [224]