common

Question 1

sell like hot cakes

Answer 1

sth are sold in large quantities

Question 2

pull so’s legs

Answer 2

to try to persuade someone to believe something that is not true, as a joke

Question 3

hit the roof

Answer 3

to become extremely angry

Question 4

go for a song

Answer 4

very cheaply

Question 5

look daggers at so

Answer 5

to look angrily at someone

Question 6

hand in glove

Answer 6

working together, often to do something dishonest

Question 7

have a bee in one’s bonnet about sth

Answer 7

you are obsessed with it and can’t stop thinking about it

Question 8

spliltting headache

Answer 8

a very severe pain that you feel in your head

Question 9

pay through the nose

Answer 9

to pay too much money for something

Question 10

death warm up

Answer 10

to look or feel very ill

Question 11

get cold feet

Answer 11

to suddenly become too frightened to do something you had planned to do, especially something important such as getting married

Question 12

jump the traffic lights

Answer 12

To pass a set of traffic lights when they are not showing green.

Question 13

fly off the handle

Answer 13

to react in a very angry way to something that someone says or does

Question 14

off the peg

Answer 14

clothes are made and bought in standard sizes and not made especially to fit a particular person

Question 15

by the skin of one’s teeth

Answer 15

If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it

Question 16

beat about the bush

Answer 16

to avoid talking about what is important, say sth unrelevant

Question 17

bucket down

Answer 17

to rain heavily

Question 18

close shaves

Answer 18

a situation in which you come very close to a dangerous situation

Question 19

drop a brick

Answer 19

to do or say something that makes you feel embarrassed

Question 20

blow one’s trumpet

Answer 20

to tell everyone proudly about your achievements, but untrue

Question 21

sleep on it

Answer 21

to wait before making a decision

Question 22

drop sb a line

Answer 22

to write someone a letter, especially a short informal one

Question 23

fight tooth and nail

Answer 23

to try very hard to get something you want

Question 24

know like the back of one’s hand

Answer 24

to have very good and detailed knowledge of something

Question 25

down the drain

Answer 25

If work or money is or goes down the drain, it is spoiled or wasted

Question 26

get the hand of sth

Answer 26

to learn how to do something, esp. when it is not simple or obvious

Question 27

smell a rat

Answer 27

to recognize that something is not as it appears to be or that something dishonest is happening

Question 28

get sth on one’s mind

Answer 28

to be worrying about something

Question 29

chip in

Answer 29

contribute something as one’s share of a joint activity, cost, etc.

Question 30

off one’s head

Answer 30

ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.

Question 31

off the record

Answer 31

not made as an official or attributable statement.

Question 32

cut it fine

Answer 32

allow a very small margin of something, especially time.

Question 33

golden handshake

Answer 33

a payment made to an employee when they leave their job as a reward for very long or good service

Question 34

put in a good word for someone

Answer 34

Make a supportive remark or favorable recommendation

Question 35

go to one’s head

Answer 35

That makes that person think that they are very important and makes them a less pleasant person

Question 36

take things to pieces

Answer 36

to separate something into smaller parts

Question 37

put on an act

Answer 37

to behave or speak in a false or artificial way

Question 38

keep sth quiet

Answer 38

to say nothing about something

Question 39

come to light

Answer 39

Facts become known publicly

Question 40

put one’s foot in it

Answer 40

to say something by accident that embarrasses or upsets

Question 41

call a spade a spade

Answer 41

speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues.

Question 42

pull one’s weight

Answer 42

to work as hard as other people in a group

Question 43

make both ends meet

Answer 43

earn enough money to live without getting into debt

Question 44

get the wrong end of the stick

Answer 44

to not understand a situation correctly, misunderstood

Question 45

give sb one’s word

Answer 45

to promise something

Question 46

go up the wall

Answer 46

to get very angry

Question 47

to have something on the brain

Answer 47

be obsessed with something

Question 48

get on sb’s nerves

Answer 48

to annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again

Question 49

put/get someone’s back up

Answer 49

to annoy someone