(science fiction) time machine

(figuratively) to be much mistaken, to bark up the wrong tree, to delude oneself, to need one's head examined, to have another think coming

to moderate one's impetuosity

(transitive, figuratively) to butter up, to soft-soap

(informal, figuratively) to feel under the weather, to feel fragile

(figuratively, informal) to be bone-idle, to be extremely lazy

(figuratively, informal) to have one foot in the grave

(Belgium, vulgar, derogatory) to be rolling in money, to be rolling in it (to be extremely well-off financially thanks to one's birth in a rich family)

(figuratively, informal) to make a mountain out of a molehill (to get all worked up over the slightest difficulties)

(Louisiana, Cajun, St.Martin Parish) to be in distress