Flattery

Flattery will get you nowhere!

«The phrase is used to discourage one’s efforts to win favor or good fortune through flattery.»

The Free Dictionary Idioms

Close to the Chest

She played her cards close to her chest!

«To keep one’s plans, ideas, etc., hidden from other people»

Merriam Webster

Panties in a Bunch

Don’t get your panties in a bunch!

«To become overly upset or emotional over something, especially that which is trivial or unimportant.»

The Free Dictionary Idioms

No Chance

Buckley’s and Nunn
«Describing something that is completely impossible or incredibly unlikely. The phrase refers to the department store Buckley & Nunn. Primarily heard in Australia.»

The Free Dictionary Idioms

Beck and call

«at someone’s beck and call»

To be at someone’s beck and call is to be entirely subservient to them; to be responsive to their slightest request.

Phrase Finder

Camel and Straw?

«That was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.»

The idiom «the straw that broke the camel’s back» describes the minor or routine action that causes an unpredictably large and sudden reaction, because of the cumulative effect of small actions.

wikipedia

Gun?

«Lock, stock, and barrel»

«Lock, stock, and barrel» is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning „all“, „total“ or „everything“. It derives from the effective portions of a gun: the lock, the stock, and the barrel.

wikipedia

Handbasket and Guillotine?

«Why’d everything have to go to hell in a handbasket?»

To be ‚going to hell in a handbasket‘ is to be rapidly deteriorating – on course for disaster.
One theory on the origin of the phrase is that derives from the use of handbaskets in the guillotining method of capital punishment.

phrases.org.uk

How True!

«No matter how thin the pancake, there are always two sides!»

Variations:
«No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.»
«There are two sides to every story.»