Indicates that the speaker needs a smaller size (of clothes or shoes).

(idiomatic) Someone is the butt of a joke or is experiencing a negative outcome, especially if that person was trying to make someone else the butt of the joke or subject them to the negative outcome.

Alternative form of necessity is the mother of invention

(often humorous) Whatever you say you wish for I will treat as a command and do straight away.

(idiomatic) It is someone's turn to do something; often making a decision.

(paradox, oxymoron) That which is of smaller quantity could be of higher quality.

Usually said in a situation when the rule is incorrect and unusable.

(idiomatic, chiefly southern US) This is a big problem; there is unavoidable or demanding work ahead.

One who has possession of a thing has some right to it; a popular statement of the doctrine of adverse possession.

Dated form of possession is nine-tenths of the law.