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when there is not time…

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run out of time

-we are running out of time

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2
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immediately

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right away

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3
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feel sick from drinking

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hangover

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when you have desire to do something

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I’m in the mood
I feel like

  • i am in the mood to go to the restaurant
  • i feel like going to the restaurant
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5
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omething we already have is more valuable than something we think we may get in the future.

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‘Don’t count your chickens (before they hatch/before they are hatched)’

‘A bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush)’

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to being careful before you act.

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‘Look before you leap’

‘Better (to be) safe than sorry’

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to warn someone not to try to do too much, we often say.

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‘Don’t bite off more than you can chew’

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We might warn someone to be strict with a child, employee, etc., by saying ,

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‘Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile’

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if someone justifies a bad action by saying that it was a response to another bad action, we might tell them sternly that Similarly, when we say

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‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’.

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if someone complains that the poor quality of their work was caused by substandard equipment

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‘A bad workman always blames his tools’.

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people shouldn’t criticize other people for bad qualities they have themselves.

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‘People (who live) in glass houses (shouldn’t throw stones)’,

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meaning that worthwhile things often take a long time

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‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’,

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if someone is frustrated because they can’t work out how to achieve something

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‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’

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meaning that it is impossible to achieve things without some bad effects.

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‘You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs’

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