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‘P’

• Paddle your own canoe.

If you paddle your own canoe, you do things for yourself without help.
• Paint yourself into corner.

If someone paints themselves into a corner, they get themselves into a mess.
• Pennies on the dollar.

If something is pennies on the dollar, it’s much cheaper than it cost originally.
• Penny ante.

Something that is very unimportant is penny ante.
• Pick-up game.
A pick-up game is something unplanned where people respond to events as they happen.
• Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

This idiom is used to express being satisfied with enough, that being greedy or too ambitious will be your ruin.
• Polish the apples.

Someone who polishes the apples with someone, tries to get into that person’s favor.
• Pull numbers out of your ass.

If someone pulls numbers out of their ass, they give unreliable or unsubstantiated figures to back their argument.

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