Here is a list of 200 well-known clichés:

1.            A chip off the old block

2.            A clean slate

3.            A drop in the ocean

4.            A fine kettle of fish

5.            A loose canon

6.            A pain in the neck

7.            Add insult to injury

8.            Against all odds

9.            Air your dirty laundry

10.          All your eggs in one basket

11.          All’s well that ends well

12.          An axe to grind

13.          Another day, another dollar

14.          At the end of the day

15.          At this moment in time

16.          Avoid like the plague (did you catch the irony there?)

17.          Back to Square One

18.          Back to the drawing board

19.          Ballpark figure

20.          Banging your head against a brick wall

21.          Baptism of fire

22.          Bark is worse that their bite

23.          Barking up the wrong tree

24.          Beat around the bush

25.          Beggars can’t be choosers

26.          Best thing since sliced bread

27.          Bet your bottom dollar

28.          Between a rock and a hard place

29.          Beyond the pale

30.          Big fish in a small pond

31.          Bite the hand that feeds you

32.          Bite the bullet

33.          Bitten off more than they can chew

34.          Blind leading the blind

35.          Blood is thicker than water

36.          Bone of contention

37.          Bring home the bacon

38.          Broken record

39.          Bull in a china shop

40.          Burning the candle at both ends

41.          Bury the hatchet

42.          By hook or by crook

43.          By the same token

44.          Calm before the storm

45.          Can’t cut the mustard

46.          Cat got your tongue

47.          Chomping at the bit

48.          Cleanliness is next to godliness

49.          Clear as mud

50.          Come hell or high water

51.          Cost an arm and a leg

52.          Cross that bridge when you come to it

53.          Curisoity killed the cat

54.          Cut to the chase

55.          Cute as a button

56.          Cut to the quick

57.          Dead as a dodo

58.          Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched

59.          Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

60.          Dull as dishwater

61.          Easy as pie

62.          Every dog has its day

63.          Every fibre of my being

64.          Everything but the kitchen sink

65.          Feast or famine

66.          Few and far between

67.          Fish out of water

68.          Fit as a fiddle

69.          Flat as a pancake

70.          Flip your lid

71.          Flog a dead horse

72.          Fly by night

73.          For all intents and purposes

74.          Force to be reckoned with

75.          Fresh as a daisy

76.          Get your feet wet

77.          Gets my goat

78.          Glass half for or half empty

79.          Go against the grain

80.          Go the extra mile

81.          Going forward

82.          Good as gold

83.          Good things come to those who wait

84.          High as a kite

85.          High and dry

86.          Hold your horses

87.          Honest as the day is long

88.          Icing on the cake

89.          If the shoe fits

90.          If the shoe was on the other foot

91.          In a nutshell

92.          In an ideal world

93.          In any way, shape, or form

94.          In hot water

95.          In the nick of time

96.          In this day and age

97.          It’s not over until the fat lady sings

98.          It takes one to know one

99.          Joined at the hip

100.        Judge a book by its cover

101.        Jump down your throat

102.        Jumop in with both feet

103.        Just the ticket

104.        Keep a stiff upper lip

105.        Keep your chin up

106.        Kick the bucket

107.        Kid in a candy store

108.        Kill two birds with one stone

109.        Kit and caboodle/caboodle (the whole)

110.        Knock your socks off

111.        Labour of love

112.        Last but not least

113.        Last hurrah

114.        Leaps and bounds

115.        Let sleeping dogs lie

116.        Let the cat out of the bag

117.        Let the good times roll

118.        Let your hair down

119.        Lick your wounds

120.        Light at the end of the tunnel

121.        Like death warmed up

122.        Like taking candy from a baby

123.        Look whatthe cat dragged in

124.        Luck of the irish

125.        Make hay while the sun shines

126.        Make money hand over fist

127.        Make your blood boil

128.        Mark my words

129.        Missed the boat

130.        Moment in the sun

131.        Money to burn

132.        More than one way to skin a cat

133.        Move the goalposts

134.        Never say never

135.        Nip it in the bud

136.        No guts, no glory

137.        No pain, no gain

138.        No skin off my nose

139.        No use crying over spilt milk

140.        Nose to the grindstone

141.        Not fit for purpose

142.        Nothing to sniff at

143.        Nothing ventured, nothing gained

144.        On the bandwagon

145.        On their high horse

146.        On thin ice

147.        Once bitten, twice shy

148.        One born every minute

149.        One foot in the grave

150.        Only time will tell

151.        Open a can of worms

152.        Open the flood gates

153.        Opportunity doesn’t knock twice

154.        Out of the frying pan and into the fire

155.        Out of the woods

156.        Out on a limb

157.        Par for the course

158.        Part and parcel

159.        Pay through the nose

160.        Plain as the nose on your face

161.        Play your cards right

162.        Playing with fire

163.        Plenty of fish in the sea

164.        Pulled the wool over their eyes

165.        Pure as the driven snow

166.        Pushing the envelope

167.        Put the cart before the horse

168.        Raining cats and dogs

169.        Reap what you sow

170.        Reinvent the wheel

171.        Rob Peter to pay Paul

172.        Salt of the earth

173.        See eye to eye

174.        Singing from the same hymn sheet

175.        Six of one, half a dozen of the other

176.        Skating on thin ice

177.        Stick in the mud

178.        Still waters run deep

179.        Stop and smell the roses

180.        Straw that broke the camel’s back

181.        Stubborn as a mule

182.        Take the bull by the horns

183.        Takes two to tango

184.        The devil is in the detail

185.        The long and short of it

186.        The pot calling the kettle black

187.        The red carpet treatment

188.        The road to hell is paved with good intentions

189.        Think outside the box

190.        Three sheets to the wind

191.        Throw in the towel

192.        Throw the baby out with the bathwater

193.        Until the cows come home

194.        Water under the bridge

195.        Weather the storm

196.        When it rains, it pours

197.        When push comes to shove

198.        When the cat’s away

199.        When the going gets tough, the tough get going

200.        Whole nine yards

201.        Wild-goose chase

202.        Yanking your chain

Some of the phrases listed are also classed as, or are similar to idioms, metaphors and similes. Just in case you didn't get it the first time, these are clichés to AVOID.