Or alternatively - seeing how the curtain is made

“Good night and good luck,” was the tagline of tv journalist Edward R. Murrow and the title of a 2005 movie about his reporting on the Red Scare in the US in the 1959s

Too many chiefs and not enough Indians + big fish in a small pond.

Or, You can’t make a silk purse out of a turd.

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
You can’t polish a turd.

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Nails on a chalkboard + The nail that sticks out gets hammered down

Burning a candle/ burning the bridge

Haven’t lost a step/ Didn’t miss a beat

Fortune favors the bold

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

in case the original body text hath disappeared, sub the word “spreadsheet” into a movie quote … such as i have a bad spreadsheet about this …

I shoot an arrow into the air Where it lands i do not care

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Your goose is cooked.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away + the early bird gets the worm

Morning coffee at the office and the bathroom rush it creates

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step + does a bear shit in the woods?

A gem from my teenager. Corrected to a “one trick pony”. Teen didn’t understand reference.

The early bird gets the worm + a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Kill two birds with one stone + getting stoned

He who laughs last dealt it.

"Run for the hills" + "the hill you'll die on"

Maybe not the most original but I just thought of it.

It's a horse of a different color + You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink

"Been there, done that, got the T-shirt" carried to its natural extension in a grindy game or a grindy part of real life.

My fiancé is a fountain of youth for these