2000s Flashcards
Blow one’s top / blow one’s stack
To be very angry
A cock and bull story
A fanciful and unbelievable tale
Find one’s feet
To grow in confidence in a new situation as one gains experience.
Call it a night
To go to bed to sleep
The tip of the iceberg
Only a small part of a much larger problem
Below par / under par
Average or normal amount, degree, health or condition
From pillar to post
To and fro
Hang up on
To end a telephone call
Turn someone on
To create feeling of excitement, interest, lust, pleasure
Turn someone off
To create feelings of dislike, repulsion, disgust etc
By and by
After a while, soon
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To kick the bucket
Die
To push to the walls
To place in a desperate or extreme position
To read between the lines
Find the real message in what you’re reading or hearing
To be at daggers drawn
Very angry and close to violence
To throw down the gauntlet
Declare or issue a challenge
To be Greek / it’s all Greek to me
It is beyond my comprehension
To stand on ceremony
To behave in a formal or ceremonious manner
From the horse’s mouth
To hear it directly from the person concerned or responsible
Have a heavy cross to bear
To have a difficult problem to deal with that causes you worry or anxiety
Take aback
Surprise, shock
Take after
Follow the example of, resemble in appearance, temperature or character
Take for
To regard as
Take ill
Become ill
Take off
Remove
Take off
To decrease the amount
(He took 20% off the price)
Take oneself off
Leave, go away
Take over
Assume control, management, possession of
Take to
To go away to a place to escape
Take to task
To criticise
Take to one’s heels
Run away
Take with a pinch of salt
Skeptically, with reservations
Kick the bucket
To die
Bolt from the blue
Unexpectedly and suddenly
Put your foot down
Make a firm stand
Worth your salt
Deserving respect
Down the drain
Being lost or wasted
Be all ears
Acutely attentive
Swan song
Final achievement, public appearance
Cheek by jowl
Very close together
In a nutshell
Concise, in a few words
Give me five
To match palm of your hand with someone
To bring grist to the mill
Something that is useful to someone for a particular purpose
Set one’s cap
Pursue someone romantically
To draw the longbow
Exaggerate
Send a person to Coventry
To ostracise, systematically ignore someone
Beer and skittles
All fun and pleasure
Acid test
A decisive and critical test
Skeleton in the cupboard
An embarrassing fact that someone wishes to keep secret
To a mare’s nest
Very complicated situation
Keep one’s nose to the grindstone
To work hard for a long period of time without stopping
Knock someone for a loop / throw someone for a loop
To shock or surprise someone
Letter perfect
Correct in all detail
Off the wall
Unusual and amusing
Out to lunch
Crazy or out of touch
Salt something away
Save something for future, secretly and usually dishonestly
Take someone to the cleaners
To defeat someone completely
Wear the pants
Be dominant partner in a relationship
Twiddle your thumbs
To do nothing
Vamp up
Repair and improve something
Whittle something away
To make something gradually decrease in value
Winkle out
To get something out of place or position
Give someone the bum’s rush
To eject forcibly
Loom Large
To be worrying or frightening and seem hard to avoid
The possibility of civil war loomed large on the horizon
Besetting sin
A fault to which a person is especially prone
To hang fire
Delay
To put a lid on / keep a lid on
To keep something secret to, to keep something under control
Flavour of the month
Temporarily popular
Zero hour
The time when something important is to start
Gloom and doom
The feeling that a situation is bad and is not likely to improve
To pig out
Eat ravenously, gorge oneself
Bag people
Homeless people
Compassion fatigue
A weariness of and diminishing public response to frequent requests for charity
Not mince matters
Moderate and restraint one’s language to be polite
Blow one’s too
Lose one’s temper
A cock and bull story
An unbelievable tale that is intended to deceive
Find one’s feet
To gain confidence in a new situation with experience
Call it a night
To go to bed to sleep
The tip of the iceberg
Only a small part of a much larger problem
Below par / under par
Average or normal amount
From pillar to post
To and fro
Hang up on
To end telephone call
Turn someone on
To create feeling of excitement, interest, lust
Turn someone off
To create feelings of dislike, repulsion, disgust
Leave in the lurch
Abandon or desert
Hand and fast
Not to be changed
Weather the storm
Wait until situation improves
Bear the brunt
put up with the worst of a Bad situation
Meet halfway
To compromise with someone
Where the shoe pinches
Source of trouble, grief, difficulty
