Fixed Expressions Flashcards
To make sb’s hair stand on end
To be very frightening
A page turner
A really good book you can’t stop reading
A bit out of the ordinary
Unusual
Sth is paramount
Sth is very important
To give sb a helping hand
To help sb
To go the extra mile
To do more than you need to do to impress sb
To move up he ladder
“How long did it take to move up the ladder?”
Career progression
To do sth at your own expense
When you do sth and you pay for it all yourself
To be hooked on sth
To be addicted to sth, to be obsessed with sth
Sth slips your mind
You forget to do sth
To look a million dollars
To look amazing (appearance, not personality)
There is no room to swing a cat
Almost no space
When the situation is reversed
When the boot is on be other foot
To have a lot of work to do, so you are too busy to have fun
To be up to my ears in work
When you want to emphasis that a task/problem is not complicated (usually said when sb else is having a problem). A patronising comment
Sth isn’t rocket science
Being able to stay fashionable with technology, what’s popular as you and the time progresses
To keep up with the times
Susceptible, sth bad happens to you often
To be prone to (inf) sth
Enough work for today
It’s time to call it a day
Has a negative impact on sth
Sth takes a (terrible) toll on sth
A perfectionist
A person who needs to cross every “t” and dot every “I”
To be OCD/anal (adj) about sth
To have the right skills/ qualifications/ experience to do sth
To have what it takes to (do sth)
Money you receive (or pay) when sb uses your intellectual property
To be paid/ receive royalties for sth
Don’t pick up responsibilities but also no home
A rolling stone gather no moss
Mas vale pájaro en mano que cien volando
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Going from a bad situation to another one that is worse
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
There’s always hope
Every cloud has a silver lining
To owe money to sb/ the bank
To be in the red
To be short of money
To be hard up
A mean person who doesn’t want to spend money
A skinflint
Recovering from an illness, becoming healthy again
To be on the mend
To finish sth really quickly
To polish sth off
Sth you safe money for
A nest-egg
To make a proposal in order to sell a product
To PITCH a product
To be able to survive/exist/manage without the support of sb else
To gold one’s hand
