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Fat lot of good

No use or help at all

Example 

Fat lot of good she is. Just another hand out for the freebies.

Air one’s dirty laundry in public 

Make one’s problems known. Discuss private matters or problems in front of others who are not involved

Examples 

Let’s not air our dirty laundry in public.

What is the problem with modern politics? Too much airing dirty laundry in public.

Wash one’s dirty linen in public

Discuss or argue about your personal affairs in public

Examples

People have an unnatural fixation on the personal lives of celebrities, but I don’t see why they should be expected to wash their dirty linen in public.

I wonder why they wouldn’t wash their dirty linen in private.

Muppet

An incompetent or foolish person

Example 

He played like a muppet.

Mug

A stupid or gullible person

Example 

These mugs need to get out of the political ring asap.

Have the cards

To be in a position of power or control over someone or something else.

Examples 

I saw my brother break the vase, so I have the cards right now and can get him to do anything I want.

He had the cards.

Lose one’s noodles

Act irrationally, be eccentric, or lose one’s sense of reason

Example

Eamon you are losing your noodles old man.

Give someone a gob stopper

Let someone stop talking immediately 

A gob stopper: A large, hard, spherical sweet/candy that would completely fill the mouth

Example

Give her a gob stopper quickly.

Scumbag

A contemptible or objectionable person

Example

What a scumbag, clearly someone who has no regard for this country that houses him.

Wet behind the ears

Lacking experience; immature

Examples 

You’ll never win the case with him as your lawyer—he’s just out of law school and still wet behind the ears!

Where is the cowardly president wet behind the big ears to stand up to this criminal act!