#7 Flashcards
All’s fish that comes the net.
When something comes our way we should consider how it might be useful or benefit us.
Be on the safe side.
To take special precautions to avoid making a mistake.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
What is beautiful to one person may not be beautiful to others.
The blind leading the blind.
A person helping or advising someone knows as little about the subject as the person who is being advised.
The buck stops here.
It means final decision or total responsibility for an action.
Burn the candle at both ends.
Those who are always busy and seem to get little rest.
Buy a pig in a poke.
Buy something without examining it for faults or checking to see if they are really getting what they believe they have purchased.
Catch as catch can.
To do anything or use any means to achieve an aim or reach a goal.
Children should be seen and not heard.
To stop a child from asking questions, talking, or making unnecessary noise.
Christmas comes but once each year.
An excuse to indulge in food and drink and spend money during the Christmas season.
Cut off your nose to spite your face.
When people are dissatisfied or angry, they sometimes react by doing foolish things that prove harmful to themselves.
The devil finds work for idle hands.
Unless one keeps busy doing useful or constructive things he could be tempted into mischief or evil.
The devil has the best tunes.
To do something unworthy because it gives you pleasure.
Dog eat dog.
In competitive situations where each person has his own interests at heart, it is usually the strong and the determined who succeed.
