play to the gallery

peanut gallery

Any source of heckling, unwelcome commentary or criticism, especially …

Faustian bargain

An agreement in which a person abandons his or her spiritual values or …

plow with one's heifer

To have an affair with another man's wife or to deal with the wife in …

sell one's own grandmother

To do anything, especially unprincipled or illegal, in order to obtain …

run past

To bring an idea or proposal to the attention of (someone) in order to …

cry the blues

To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purp …