be engraved on somebody's heart and bones

come and go without leaving a trace behind

month after month and year after year

nothing left

Day and night

Prepare for the war

just to amuse oneself(with a view to amusing oneself)

a happily married couple

work oneself to death(be dog-tired; be tired to death)

black and blue

keep on repeating(floods of ink)

a wolf with a savage heart

pity the aged and the poor

balance between work and leisure

walking dicitionary(living dicitionary)

long for fish by the waterside

the bird in the cage

be brassed off(be full of complaints)

out of the common road

decide promptly and opportunely