Explore the Nazonazo Guest House

This is a guide to some of the hidden treasures you might find on your journey through Nazonazo. This list does not include all features and secrets; to discover everything please revisit our guest house anytime. And please enjoy your stay.

All Good Things

Joker (5 of Hearts)

All good things come to those that wait
The cat sat on the mat
Like a cat on a hot tin roof
Wait for the ball to drop
Snug as a bug in a rug

The Big Fish

2 of Spades (Joker)

The big fish eat little fish
Come out of the blue (sky)
Have bigger fish to fry
No strings attached
Tip the scales

Star Crossed

3 of Spades (10 of Hearts)

Star crossed lovers
Star gazing
It’s written in the stars
Hit the hay
Dress up like a dog’s dinner
Two strings to ones bow

Three Sheets

4 of Spades (Jack of Spades)

Three sheets to the wind
There’s always a bigger fish
Hang by a hair
Tie the knot
Three sheets to the wind
Crib sheet
A security blanket

Holding Pattern

5 of Spades (6 of Clubs)

To be in a holding pattern
A red cent
The red eye
If you lie down with dogs, you’ll wake up with fleas
Let sleeping dogs lie
(Adversity makes) strange bedfellows
Sweet spot

Like Moths

6 of Spades (7 of Hearts)

Like moths to a flame
To be like a fly in milk
To fly in the face of (something)
A heatwave
A drop in the ocean
A red herring

The Writing

7 of Spades (2 of Diamonds)

The writing is on the wall
To hold the purse strings
A picture is worth a thousand words
To make a hash of something
Green stamps
To crack a crib
Feather and tar

To the Fold

8 of Spades (King of Spades)

To return to the fold
A fly on the wall
A little frog in a big pond
To leaf through a book
To have a frog in your throat

A Broad Brush

9 of Spades (Ace of Clubs)

To paint something with a broad brush
To paint the town red
Life imitates art
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Night and day
To be over the moon
To fly too close to the sun

In the Foot

10 of Spades (7 of Spades)

To shoot yourself in the foot
Shoot for the stars
Straight as an arrow
To walk the plank
You can’t see the whole sky through a bamboo pole (Japanese proverb)

Mightier Than

Jack of Spades (8 of Diamonds)

The pen is mightier than the sword
Bow the knee
Cock a leg
A pen pusher
To wear your heart on your sleeve

A Gift Horse

Queen of Spades (10 of Diamonds)

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Swift as an arrow
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
To hit the target
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink

In the Back

King of Spades (King of Clubs)

Stab in the back
Back-to-back
A square meal
To be on target
To catch fire
It is useful to first see the spark before the fire (Japanese proverb)

If you play

Ace of Spades (Ace of Spades)

If you play with fire, you get burned
To be on fire
To have a fire in your belly
Once in a blue moon
What in blue blazes

Hammer and Tongs

2 of hearts (9 of Diamonds)

To go at it hammer and tongs
Like a knife through butter
Babes in the wood
Count your lucky star
There’s gold in them there hills

To Build Castles

3 of hearts (8 of Clubs)

To build castles in the air
To fall off the map
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Pride cometh before the fall
To drop the other shoe
To drop the ball

Your Whole World

4 of hearts (6 of Hearts)

Your whole world is turned upside down
To not stand on your own legs
To (not) know where one stands
All hearts and flowers
To not touch someone with a ten-foot pole
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
Deadwood
To have too many balls in the air
To fly blind

Before You Leap

5 of hearts (6 of Spades)

Look before you leap
The birds and the bees
To watch the world go by
The glass ceiling
To be over somebody’s head

And Mirrors

6 of hearts (4 of Spades)

Smoke and mirrors
To think inside the box/think out of the box
A fuse box
An eight ball
The emperor’s new clothes
To have bigger fish to fry

The Same Cloth

7 of hearts (8 of Hearts)

Cut from the same cloth
To lose the thread
To have a mountain to climb
Two birds with one stone
To beat your head against the wall
On a biblical scale
Great balls of fire

Stand Out

8 of hearts (3 of Diamonds)

To stand out from the crowd
To follow the crowd
To be a wet sock
To wear more than one hat/wear two hats
To pee(pea) your pants
Ten people, ten colours (Japanese proverb)

An Army Marches

9 of hearts (3 of Hearts)

An army marches on its stomach
An army brat
A double-edged sword
Sword and sandal
Box somebody’s ears

By the Sword

10 of hearts (10 of Clubs)

Live by the sword, die by the sword
Fan the flames
Hit the fan
To fall on one’s sword
A red flag

Finding a Needle

Jack of hearts (2 of Clubs)

Like finding a needle in a haystack
To draw straws
Grasp at straws
Cutting corners
The last straw
The old guard

Sticks and Stones

Queen of hearts (9 of Hearts)

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
Have a bone to pick
Toss someone a bone
Neither fish nor fowl
To hit the high spots

The Other Shoe

King of hearts (Ace of hearts)

Waiting for the other shoe to drop
To show the white flag
To fly off the handle
To be poles apart
To have ants in one’s pants
There’s nothing new under the sun (As old as the hills/Old bag)
To waffle on

All Your Eggs

Ace of hearts (3 of Clubs)

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
To kill the goose that lays the golden egg
A hotbox
To belt a drink down
To have a big head

Up Your Sleeves

2 of Clubs (Jack of Hearts)

Have something up your sleeves
A pillar of strength
Float your boat
To rock the boat
Screen time
Time runs out

Let Slip

3 of Clubs (5 of Diamonds)

To let one’s mask slip
To face the music
To be two-faced
To fly in the face of something
Make a mountain out of a molehill

My Parade

4 of Clubs (2 of Spades)

Don’t rain on my parade
Dance up a storm
Dance with death/the devil
A fan dance
Fan the breeze
To make chin music
A symbol of wealth

Two Heads

5 of Clubs (4 of Clubs)

Two heads are better than one
Birds of a feather
Roll up your sleeves
A play on words
To take a stand

To the Beat

6 of Clubs (King of Diamonds)

To march to the beat of one’s own drum
One’s hair stands on end
To not have a leg to stand on
Tip the balance
To swing for the fences

Outside the Lines

7 of Clubs (Joker)

A leopard cannot change its spots
To colour outside the lines
A sting in the tail
A sweet spot
Floor space
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Hit the spot/The nail that sticks out gets hammered down (Japanese proverb)

Cast Pearls

8 of Clubs (6 of Diamonds)

Don’t cast pearls before swine
Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
Window dressing
The cat’s pyjamas
To throw money out of the window

In the Wash

9 of Clubs (Queen of Clubs)

It will come out in the wash
Oil and water don’t mix
April showers bring forth May flowers
The early bird catches the worm
To go on record

Old Dog

10 of Clubs (Queen of Diamonds)

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
A barking dog never bites
To have butterflies in your stomach
A monkey wrench
A bowler hat

On the Fence

Jack of Clubs (2 of Hearts)

To be sitting on the fence
To mend one’s fences
Hold the fort
A storm in a teacup
To sweep something under the matt/rug

In Circles

Queen of Clubs (Ace of Diamonds)

To speak in circles
To speak one’s mind
Talk is cheap
Money talks
King of the castle

Monday’s Child

King of Clubs (Jack of Clubs)

Monday’s child is fair of face
Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
It’s written all over your face
To blow up in your face
Like a tonne of bricks

The One-eyed Man

Ace of Clubs (3 of Spades)

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king
To lay your cards on the table
The blind leading the blind
To fall off the grid
Square one

Spilled Milk

2 of Diamonds (5 of Clubs)

It’s no use crying over spilled milk
A game of cat and mouse
To play both sides of the fence
Good fences make good neighbours
A fish out of water
The fish which you fail to catch is always big (Japanese proverb)

Have Your Cake

3 of Diamonds (7 of Clubs)

You can’t have you cake and eat it
I will eat my hat
To have a hair out of place
To be worm food
The cat that got the cream
A bad apple

The Squeaky Wheel

4 of Diamonds (7 of Diamonds)

The squeaky wheel gets the grease
A square peg in a round hole
To wheel and deal
To take the wheel
Someone is turning in their grave

It Never Rains

5 of Diamonds (10 of Spades)

 It never rains but it pours
Catch a tiger by the tail
The apple of my eye
Belt the grape
To be caught red handed
A screwball
Flower child

Next to Holiness

6 of Diamonds (9 of Clubs)

Cleanliness is next to holiness
A bucket list
Hell’s bells and buckets of blood
To kick the bucket
As naked as a jaybird
To have a clean sweep

In a Handbasket

7 of Diamonds (4 of Diamonds)

Go to hell in a handbasket
A bag of bones
A gasbag/windbag
A brush with death
A basket-case
A carrot on a stick
Snake in the grass

Out of the Bag

8 of Diamonds (Jack of Diamonds)

Let the cat out of the bag
Like shooting fish in a barrel
A whole other kettle of fish
A fork in the road
Born with a silver spoon in your mouth
Tiger milk

By the Horns

9 of Diamonds (8 of Spades)

To take a bull by the horns
How the cow ate the cabbage
A cash cow
Holy cow
Sneak the sunrise past the rooster

On the Other Side

10 of Diamonds (Queen of Hearts)

The grass is always greener on the other side
To plant the seed of doubt
To have one’s back against the wall
Money doesn’t grow on trees
Tree hugger

Plant Pears

Jack of Diamonds (9 of Spades)

 Plant pears for your heirs
To watch the grass grow
To send someone up the wall
To sew your seeds
Live off the grid

One Foot In

Queen of Diamonds (Queen of Spades) 

To have one foot in the door
When one door closes, another one opens
There are plenty of fish in the sea
A one-horse town
It takes a village to raise a child
Sweep before your own door (Japanese proverb)

Hard Look

King of Diamonds (King of Hearts)

 To take a long hard look in the mirror
(more) Smoke and mirrors
Watch someone’s smoke
Pay someone under the table
Drink someone under the table
Crumbs from one's table

As Good

Ace of Diamonds (5 of Spades)

 To be as good as gold
The golden child
A heart of gold
A fairy-tale
A green-eyed monster

Through the Net

Joker (4 of Hearts)

 To slip through the net
To surf the net
My cup of tea
To be written in stone
Like getting blood from a stone