burst at the seams
To be too full or too crowded.
John ate so much he was bursting at the seams.
Mary's album was so full of pictures it was bursting at the seams.
bury the hatchet
hold out an olive branch
To settle a quarrel or end a war; make peace.
The two men had been enemies a long time, but after the flood they buried the hatchet.
by the book
По правилам, по инструкции.
He has installed the software by the book.
Он установил программное обеспечение по инструкции.
by the dozen
by the hundred
by the thousand
Very many at one time; in great numbers. Often used in the plural, meaning even larger numbers.
Tommy ate cookies by the dozen.
The ants arrived at the picnic by the hundreds.
The enemy attacked the fort by the thousands.
by the piece
Counted one piece at a time, separately for each single piece.
John bought boxes full of bags of potato chips and sold them by the piece.
Mary made potholders and got paid by the piece.
by the skin of one's teeth
By a narrow margin; with no room to spare; barely.
The drowning man struggled, and I got him to land by the skin of my teeth.
She passed English by the skin of her teeth.
by the sweat of one's brow
By hard work; by tiring effort; laboriously.
Even with modern labor-saving machinery, the farmer makes his living by the sweat of his brow.
by the way
by the bye
Just as some added fact or news; as something else that I think of. Used to introduce something related to the general subject, or brought to mind by it.
We shall expect you; by the way, dinner will be at eight.
I was reading when the earthquake occurred, and, by the way, it was The Last Days of Pompeii that I was reading.
Movies are my favorite form of entertainment. Oh, by the way, have you seen the new picture that’s playing at the Bijou?
Vera’s been divorced for three years now. She told me, by the way, that she never plans to remarry.