Expressions and Idioms part 4

· He really knows all the answers · Anything but · He upset my apple cart · Twist one's arm · His star is in the ascendant · Reduce to ashes · Ask for it / Ask for trouble · Of little / No avail · Explore every avenue · To grease / oil one's palm · For the life of me · A nosey parker · For my part · Take in good part · Pass away / over · To pass judgment · Things have come to a pretty pass · The road to hell is paved with good intentions · To pay / give lip-service · Hold one's pease · Knock off his pedestal perch · A peg on which to hang · A square peg in a round hole · A penny for you thoughts · At no period · To pick clean · Pie in the sky · Say one's piece · Where the shoe pinches · In the pink · In high places · Fair play · Play false