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• a sting in the tail
• be (sitting) on (one's) tail
• be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
• be chasing tail
• be like a dog with two tails
• be on tail
• Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
• bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
• can't make head nor tail of
• can't make head or tail of
• can't make heads or tails of
• chase (one's) tail
• chase tail
• come up heads
• drag (one's) tail
• drag one's ass
• freeze tail off
• fuzz
• fuzzy (tail)
• get ass in gear
• Get off my ass!
• Get off my tail!
• get off one's tail
• get off tail
• get one’s ass in gear
• get one’s tail in gear
• get one’s tail somewhere fast!
• get one’s tail somewhere immediately!
• get one’s tail somewhere now!
• get some tail
• Go chase your tail!
• Go chase yourself!
• has the world by the tail
• have (someone or something) by the tail
• have a tiger by the tail
• have the world by the tail
• heads or tails
• hold an eel by the tail
• hunk of tail
• in two shakes
• in two shakes of a lamb's tail
• like a dog with two tails
• make heads or tails of
• nose to tail
• not able to make head or tail of
• on coat-tails
• on someone’s tail
• on someone's coattails
• on tail
• piece of ass
• piece of tail
• ride (on) the coattails of (someone)
• skin an eel by the tail
• sting in the tail
• tail after
• tail away
• tail between legs
• tail between one's legs, with one's
• tail end
• tail into
• tail off
• tail out
• tail wagging the dog
• tail wagging the dog, the
• tail-end
• tails
• the tail end of
• the tail wagging the dog
• tickle the dragon's tail
• tiger by the tail
• turn tail
• turn tail and run
• two shakes of a lamb’s tail
• two shakes of a lamb's tail
• whale tail
• with tail between legs
• work one’s tail off
• work one's fingers to the bone
• work tail off