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2000s Flashcards

1
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Blow one’s top / blow one’s stack

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To be very angry

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A cock and bull story

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A fanciful and unbelievable tale

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Find one’s feet

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To grow in confidence in a new situation as one gains experience.

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Call it a night

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To go to bed to sleep

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5
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The tip of the iceberg

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Only a small part of a much larger problem

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Below par / under par

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Average or normal amount, degree, health or condition

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7
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From pillar to post

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To and fro

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8
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Hang up on

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To end a telephone call

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9
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Turn someone on

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To create feeling of excitement, interest, lust, pleasure

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10
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Turn someone off

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To create feelings of dislike, repulsion, disgust etc

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11
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By and by

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After a while, soon

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12
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The team meanings

A

Some articles that match your query

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13
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To kick the bucket

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Die

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14
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To push to the walls

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To place in a desperate or extreme position

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15
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To read between the lines

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Find the real message in what you’re reading or hearing

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16
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To be at daggers drawn

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Very angry and close to violence

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17
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To throw down the gauntlet

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Declare or issue a challenge

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18
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To be Greek / it’s all Greek to me

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It is beyond my comprehension

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19
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To stand on ceremony

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To behave in a formal or ceremonious manner

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20
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From the horse’s mouth

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To hear it directly from the person concerned or responsible

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21
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Have a heavy cross to bear

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To have a difficult problem to deal with that causes you worry or anxiety

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22
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Take aback

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Surprise, shock

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23
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Take after

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Follow the example of, resemble in appearance, temperature or character

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24
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Take for

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To regard as

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25
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Take ill

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Become ill

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26
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Take off

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Remove

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27
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Take off

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To decrease the amount

(He took 20% off the price)

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28
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Take oneself off

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Leave, go away

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29
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Take over

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Assume control, management, possession of

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30
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Take to

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To go away to a place to escape

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31
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Take to task

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To criticise

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32
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Take to one’s heels

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Run away

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33
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Take with a pinch of salt

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Skeptically, with reservations

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34
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Kick the bucket

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To die

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35
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Bolt from the blue

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Unexpectedly and suddenly

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36
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Put your foot down

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Make a firm stand

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37
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Worth your salt

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Deserving respect

38
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Down the drain

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Being lost or wasted

39
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Be all ears

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Acutely attentive

40
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Swan song

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Final achievement, public appearance

41
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Cheek by jowl

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Very close together

42
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In a nutshell

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Concise, in a few words

43
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Give me five

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To match palm of your hand with someone

44
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To bring grist to the mill

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Something that is useful to someone for a particular purpose

45
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Set one’s cap

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Pursue someone romantically

46
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To draw the longbow

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Exaggerate

47
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Send a person to Coventry

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To ostracise, systematically ignore someone

48
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Beer and skittles

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All fun and pleasure

49
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Acid test

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A decisive and critical test

50
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Skeleton in the cupboard

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An embarrassing fact that someone wishes to keep secret

51
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To a mare’s nest

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Very complicated situation

52
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Keep one’s nose to the grindstone

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To work hard for a long period of time without stopping

53
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Knock someone for a loop / throw someone for a loop

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To shock or surprise someone

54
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Letter perfect

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Correct in all detail

55
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Off the wall

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Unusual and amusing

56
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Out to lunch

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Crazy or out of touch

57
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Salt something away

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Save something for future, secretly and usually dishonestly

58
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Take someone to the cleaners

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To defeat someone completely

59
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Wear the pants

A

Be dominant partner in a relationship

60
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Twiddle your thumbs

A

To do nothing

61
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Vamp up

A

Repair and improve something

62
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Whittle something away

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To make something gradually decrease in value

63
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Winkle out

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To get something out of place or position

64
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Give someone the bum’s rush

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To eject forcibly

65
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Loom Large

A

To be worrying or frightening and seem hard to avoid

The possibility of civil war loomed large on the horizon

66
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Besetting sin

A

A fault to which a person is especially prone

67
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To hang fire

A

Delay

68
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To put a lid on / keep a lid on

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To keep something secret to, to keep something under control

69
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Flavour of the month

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Temporarily popular

70
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Zero hour

A

The time when something important is to start

71
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Gloom and doom

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The feeling that a situation is bad and is not likely to improve

72
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To pig out

A

Eat ravenously, gorge oneself

73
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Bag people

A

Homeless people

74
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Compassion fatigue

A

A weariness of and diminishing public response to frequent requests for charity

75
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Not mince matters

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Moderate and restraint one’s language to be polite

76
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Blow one’s too

A

Lose one’s temper

77
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A cock and bull story

A

An unbelievable tale that is intended to deceive

78
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Find one’s feet

A

To gain confidence in a new situation with experience

79
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Call it a night

A

To go to bed to sleep

80
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The tip of the iceberg

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Only a small part of a much larger problem

81
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Below par / under par

A

Average or normal amount

82
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From pillar to post

A

To and fro

83
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Hang up on

A

To end telephone call

84
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Turn someone on

A

To create feeling of excitement, interest, lust

85
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Turn someone off

A

To create feelings of dislike, repulsion, disgust

86
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Leave in the lurch

A

Abandon or desert

87
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Hand and fast

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Not to be changed

88
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Weather the storm

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Wait until situation improves

89
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Bear the brunt

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put up with the worst of a Bad situation

90
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Meet halfway

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To compromise with someone

91
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Where the shoe pinches

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Source of trouble, grief, difficulty

Eng CSS - Idioms (5 decks)

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