lehet

• I dare say

• he sticks like a limpet, to be an old man of the sea, to stick like a leech

• no go!

• by one's own account

• have nine lives

• there is no telling

• with all speed

• he is not to be taken in

• sg to hang one's hat on

• it is to be feared that

• easy to get on with

• with all speed

• it cannot be too often asserted

• there is no living with him

• the ice does not bears yet

• to come through

• he is a fair game

• to be an old man of the sea

• there's no getting rid of him

• fair words butter no parsnips, fine words butter no parsnips, soft words butter no parsnips

• it can be said in his justification