pay for one's whistle(pay too dear for one's whistle)

fan one's parents' pillow in summer and warm their quilt with one's body in winter

shabby-genteel(be dead determined to save face)

Stay calm and collected

all kinds of work, no matter how big or trivial

break away from evil ways and return to a virtuous way

be contented with one's lot(content oneself with a little)

swim with the current

have a sonorous voice

settle snare

a word or two(with just a few words)

flay a flea for the hide and tallow(skin a louse for the sake of its skin)

an arrow on the bowstring(cannot but go ahead)

be refuted down to the last point(be torn to pieces; No part of one's body is unhurt.)

punish someone as a warning to others

study from others on halfway, lost somebody’s own strongress

Blood is thicker than water.

a crafty old devil(a deep file)

carry off meat from the graves(be clean broke)

chew one's cud(think twice)