By John Pool, M.D.
- Climbing the walls
- Dragging your heels
- Grasping at straws
- Skipping your meals
- Tilting at windmills
- Spinning your wheels
- Jumping the gun
- Passing the buck
- Kicking yourself
- Pushing your luck
- Stretching the truth
- Running amock
- Swimming upstream
- Flying off the handle
- Falling out
- Going for broke
- Heaving a sigh
- Throwing a fit
- Weaving a spell