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1 three sheets to the wind 7x

2 fit as a fiddle 5x

3 break a leg 5x

4 Time 5x

5 the mustard 5x

6 paint the town red 5x

7 the deep blue sea 4x

8 money 4x

9 fish 4x

10 alma mater 4x

11 salad days 4x

12 cake 4x

13 Curiosity killed the cat 4x

14 burning the midnight oil 4x

15 uncle 3x

16 the Rubicon 3x

17 the nines 3x

18 the fourth estate 3x

19 sweat 3x

20 shopkeepers 3x

21 purple 3x

22 no man's land 3x

23 New Year's Day 3x

24 Mudville 3x

25 Mork & Mindy 3x

26 Let the cat out of the bag 3x

27 let sleeping dogs lie 3x

28 keep your fingers crossed 3x

29 Gesundheit 3x

30 Father Time 3x

31 dead 3x

32 as the crow flies 3x

33 a red herring 3x

34 a pickle 3x

35 a one-armed bandit 3x

36 a dog and pony show 3x

37 a diamond 3x

38 You Can't Go Home Again 2x

39 yellow journalism 2x

40 white-knuckle 2x

41 We who are about to die salute you 2x

42 Waterloo 2x

43 war 2x

44 vice versa 2x

45 two cents 2x

46 too many cooks spoil the broth 2x

47 thieves 2x

48 the sword of Damocles 2x

49 the seventh-inning stretch 2x

50 the Seven Sisters 2x

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The usual number in this nautical phrase for being very drunk is 3, but feel free to get as high as you want

three sheets to the wind

"Vigorous like one violin"

fit as a fiddle

This phrase wishing an actor good luck was taken literally by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater

break a leg

In a traditional story opening, this prepositional phrase follows "once"

Time

Someone who's not up to snuff can't cut this condiment

the mustard

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