shit

be shitting bricks be extremely nervous or frightened.

a crock of shit: seecrock.

Do bears shit in the woods?: seebear.

get your shit together organize yourself so as to be able to deal with or achieve something.

2003SEE Magazine (Canada) Take Katie herself, doing just a really piss-poor job of getting her shit together to create a turkey dinner for her family.

give someone the shits make someone annoyed or angry. Australian & New Zealand

in the shit in trouble.

no shit used as a way of confirming or seeking confirmation of the truth of a statement.

☞ An ironic extension of the phrase, used to imply that something is a statement of the obvious, is no shit, Sherlock, invoking the name of the master detective Sherlock Holmes.

2018Observer He told a tech industry conference that he had only recently grasped how much of Britain's commerce is dependent on free flows across the Channel between Dover and Calais. Britain is an island? No shit, Sherlock.

not give a shit not care at all.

not know shit not know anything.

not know shit from Shinola be very ignorant or innocent. US

☞ Shinola is the proprietary name of a US brand of boot polish.

shit for brains a stupid person. chiefly North American

shit happens used to express fatalism in the face of an unwelcome occurrence.

☞ A euphemistic alternative formulation is stuff happens.

shit or get off the pot: seepot.

tough shit: seetough.

up shit creek in an awkward predicament.

when the shit hits the fan when a situation becomes critical; when the disastrous consequences of something become public.