(transitive) to pull someone's bacon out of the fire, to pull someone's fat out of the fire (to get someone out of a bad situation) / (reflexive) to get out of a bind

(figuratively) to fall on deaf ears

to sleep with one eye open

(transitive, figuratively) to brush aside (to disregard, dismiss or ignore something)

(figuratively) to have more than one trick up one's sleeve, to have more than one string to one's bow

(figuratively) to put one's foot in one's mouth, to be like a bull in a china shop, to hit the wrong note (to broach a sensitive topic in an inappropriate setting, where that topic is taboo; to be completely tactless)

Alternative form of ne pas se trouver sous le sabot d'un cheval

(informal) not to grow on trees, to be rare, to be hard to come by

to kill two birds with one stone

(figuratively) to make a mountain out of a molehill, to sweat the small stuff