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• Close but no cigar.

If you are close but no cigar, you are close to success or the truth, but have not get there.
• Cooking with gas.

If you’re cooking with gas, you’re working very efficiently.
• Coon’s age.
A very long time, as in ‘I haven’t seen her a coon’s age!’

• Country mile.
A country mile is used to the describe a long distance.
• Crepe hanger.

One who always looks at the bad side of things and is morbid or gloomy. In olden days crepe was hung on
the door of a deceased person’s home.

• Curve ball.
If something is a curve ball, it is deceptive.
• Cute as a bug.

If something is as cute as bug, it is sweet and endearing.

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