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• Fall in your sword.

If someone falls on their sword, they resign or accept the consequences of what they have done
wrong.
• Fingers and thumbs.

If you are all finggers and thumbs, you are being clumsy and not very skilled with your hands.
• Finger in the pie.

If you have finger in the pie, you have an interest in something.
• Flash in the pan.
If something is a flash in the pan; it is very noticeable but dosn’t last long, like most singers, who are

very successful for a while, then forgotten.
• Follow your nose.

When giving directions, telling someone to follow their nose means that they should go straight
ahead.
• Fool’s paradise.

A fool’s paradise is a false sense of happiness or success.
• Foot in mouth.

This used to describe someone who has just said something. Embarrassing, inappropriate, wrong or
stupid.

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