Collins Improve Your Writing Skills. Graham King

bright eyed and bushy tailed

       brought to book

       brownie points

       bruising battle/encounter

       bumper to bumper traffic jam

       by the same token

       call it a day

       callow youth

       calm before the storm

       camp as a row of tents

       can of worms

       captive audience

       card up his sleeve

       cards stacked against us

       cardinal sin

       carte blanche

       cast of thousands

       Catch 22 situation

       catalogue of errors/misery/disaster/misfortune

       cat among the pigeons, put the

       catholic tastes

       caustic comment

       cautious optimism

       centre of the universe

       chalk and cheese, as different as

       champing at the bit

       chapter and verse

       chapter of accidents

       cheek by jowl

       cheque’s in the post, the

       cheap and cheerful

       cherished belief

       chew the cud/fat

       chop and change

       chorus of approval/dispproval