Fawzia Idioms Flashcards

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1
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Acquire

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Get one’s hands onEx : get your’s hands on

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2
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Go into debts

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Go in the red

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Cheat you and get more than the stamp’s real worth

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Take you to the cleaners

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4
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Conduct an extensive search

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Search high and low

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5
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Are not readily available

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Don’t grow on trees

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Persevere

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Hang on

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7
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Write a bad check

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Bounce a check

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8
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Out of debt

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In the black

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9
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Not to move

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Stay put

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10
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Come up with

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Cough up

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11
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Financially overextended

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Stretched too thin

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12
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Living within your budget

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To live within your’s means

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13
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One of those days

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Crazy day where nothing goes rightMultiple things go wrong

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14
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Crazy day where nothing goes rightMultiple things go wrong

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One of those day

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15
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HungryStarving

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Could eat a horse

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I don’t like him too much

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I can’t stand the sight of him

17
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Drink too much

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To be totally smashed out of his brain

18
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Too stupid

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She is as thick as two shorts planks

19
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RichWealthy

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Absolutely loaded

20
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The weather is wet and cold

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The weather is vile

21
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Extremely tired after exercises

A

They are knackered

22
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Bad day or bad st

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Absolute hell

23
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Very happyWhen you win something unexpected

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Subject + verb + over the moonEx when I won a trip for two to Venice I was over the moon

24
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When you ignore a problemYou don’t want to face it

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She just buries her head

25
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When the atmosphere is coldYou do st to warm it

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Break the ice

26
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They are crazy each over

A

To fall head over heels in love

27
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To be furious

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Go through the roof

28
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So nervous

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Have butterflies in his stomach