nobody gets rich using just ten fingers, phrase
You'll get rich faster if you hire somebody to help with some of the tasks that you're getting payed for and take a percentage of the profit he or she made doing the jobs at the same time as you are doing your jobs, thus, you are using more than ten fingers.
Added on July 10, 2011 by Turner
fair to middling, phrase
About average; adequate; acceptable
Hank: How are you feeling after the knee surgery?
Joe: Oh, fair to middling. I can walk to work now again, but can't quite run. I never run anyway.
Added on May 10, 2011 by Ken Clinkenbeard
I'd buy that for a dollar, phrase
An item with so much value it's worth the price of a dollar as if that dollar came from the early 1920s.
Added on May 8, 2011 by John S.