Chapter C: Cake and eat it, to have one’s, 101, 112

Cake, to take the, 19, 104, 175

Candles away, all cats grey, 64

Cap a story, 203

Cap fits, wear it, if the, 134, 165

Carpenter known by chips, 172

Carry coals to Newcastle, 102

Cart before horse, to put the, 62

Cast in the teeth, to, 168

Castles in the air, 64

Cat after kind, 69

Cat and dog life, to lead a, 3

Catch it, to, 6, 28

Cat may look at a king, 69

Cat on hot bricks, 64

Cat’s away, mice will play, 64

Caught a Tartar, to have, 152

Chaff, to catch with, 17

Chalk and cheese, 147

Chalk it up, 66

Change not a clout, 28

Charity begins at home, 62

Chatterbox, a regular, 36, 166

Cheats never prosper, 4

Chip of the old block, 63, 124

Christmas comes but once a year, 121, 148

Civility costs nothing, 104, 179

Claw me, and I’ll claw thee, 181

Clean as a whistle, 196

Clean sweep, 217

Clear as noonday, 71

Clear as crystal, 207

Clockwork, like, 54

Cloud and a silver lining, 189

Clover, to be in, 78

Coach-and-four through Act of Parliament, 148

Coat does not make gentleman, 139

Cobbler stick to last, let, 161

Cock and bull story, 78

Cock of the walk, 78

Cold shoulder, 33

Come off cheap, 199

Come to blows, 233

Come to the point, 117, 181

Coming--like Christmas, 169

Comparisons are odious, 72

Confession good for soul, 26

Cost what it may, 86

Count chickens before hatched, 70, 76, 182

Cram, 43

Cramming-shop, 227

Creaking door hangs long, 47, 192

Cream of the army, 125

Crown his misfortune, to, 74, 156

Crumb and crust, 10

Cry out before hurt, 16

Cry over spilt milk, 115

Curses come home to roost, 20, 155

Cut coat according to cloth, 45

Cut ground under feet, 141

Cut long story short, 165