Eggs don't grow on an egg plant.
Shoes don't grow on a shoe tree.
Flowers don't sleep in a flower bed.
Taste buds never open up to be taste blossoms.
If you want to raise questions--say in academe or public affairs-- you need to have a question farm.
Trees have a bark but it must be a very quiet one because I've never heard it.
It can rain cats and dogs but you never see those animals
pooling in the gutter. (The weather man predicted cats-and-dogs rain and said it would be "soggy." Maybe he should have said "doggy.")
Fish occur in schools but I don't think they learn very much there--at least not how to avoid being caught.
"Peace of mind" and "a piece of my mind" are pretty different but sound pretty similar and might confuse someone learning English.
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