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Keep on digging or keep digging

A slang phrase that implies the continuation of a certain behavior or action, even if it may lead to negative consequences.

Example

He hits rock bottom but don’t worry he will keep on digging.

Snot nose kid

A younger person who is inexperienced or naïve yet also arrogant, brash, or haughty

Examples 

What makes you think you could run this company any better? You’re nothing but a snotnose kid!

Another article by a snot nose kid wet behind the ears not giving all the relevant information.

Tail wagging the dog 

A situation where a small, unimportant thing or person  controls a larger, more important thing or group of people

Examples

In this company the workers tell the manager what he can and cannot do. It’s a real case of the tail wagging the dog.

Don’t let the tail wag the dog.

Buffoon

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown

Example

Buffoon!

They are simply incompetent buffoons who have no idea what they are doing.

Bring someone to heel

Bring someone under control 

Example 

I sincerely hope the president has brought his enemies to heel.

Take a leaf out of or from someone’s book

To do something in the way someone else would do it; to behave or act like someone else

Example 

Take a leaf from this company’s playbook.

I think I’m going to take a leaf out of your book and start going for a run first thing in the morning.

To bow and scrape

To be too polite to an important person in order to gain their approval

Example

This twerp never learns, he just expects everyone to bow and scrape to his every whim, they are a proper pair of nobodies.

Rope

Catch with a lasso, fasten with a rope

Example

They have roped the dope again.

Hark on about 

Pay close attention continuously to

Example 

Why do they keep harking on about the past, it’s what’s going to happen now.

Wrestle someone or something to the ground 

Engage in a physical struggle where you hold and try to throw or force the other person or object to the ground.

Examples

The two men got into a heated argument and began to wrestle to the ground.

Finally, we can wrestle the beast to the ground!