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Stone Sayings
The following are just a few saying, expressions or idioms that use rocks &
minerals to paint a picture:
STONES
- stone soup
- cast in stone
- Can't get blood out of a stone
- stone cold sober
- have a heart of stone
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- stone dead
- leave no stone unturned
- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
- sink like a stone
- kill two birds with one stone
- He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- a stone's throw away
ROCKS
- as solid as a rock
- between a rock and a hard place
- be on the rocks
- rock bottom
MINERALS
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GOLD
- as good as gold
- worth your weight in gold
- a gold digger
- All that glitters is not gold.
- have a heart of gold
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SALT
- rub salt into the wound
- be the salt of the earth
- any person worth their salt
- take something with a pinch of salt
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CRYSTAL
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SILVER
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
- give someone something on a silver platter
- silver-tongued
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LEAD
- Go down like a lead balloon.
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BRASS
- as bold as brass
- the brass ring
- get down to brass tacks
- the top brass
- Where there's muck, there's brass.
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