IDIOMS VIII

Cliches are insightful expressions, but ones that have been used so often that they have lost their impact. Many idiomatic expressions have become cliches. These overused phrases are often scoffed at as being unoriginal, but I think it's important to remember that their overuse demonstrates how precisely they capture the point they're intended to convey.

Can you name the cliche/idiom that describes the following situations?

1. Reveal a secret

2. Fake crying to get sympathy 

3. Stop talking and being so arrogant

4. Vision of hope at the end of an ordeal

5. Reverse the proper order or procedure

6. Person who's no fun or spoils the fun for others 

7. Beginning of a man's beard in the late afternoon

8. Decide to face up to and act on something difficult

9. Take something away form one person to pay another

10. Try to achieve something that is not possible or realistic

11. Over-extend yourself by trying to do too much at the same time

12. Find fault with  someone when you have the same or worse fault 

Answers:

 

1. Spill the beans

2. Crocodile tears

3. Come down off your high horse

4. Light at the end of the tunnel

5. Put the cart before the horse

6. Stick in the mud / Wet blanket

7. Five o/clock shadow

8. Bite the bullet

9. Rob Peter to pay Paul

10. Chase rainbows

11. Burn the candle at both ends

12. The pot calling the kettle black