Gd13 Flashcards
Landlady
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To make ends meet
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Cost you a fortune
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He was up to the task
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The child is precocious
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A well-to-do family
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Rummage sale = jumble sale
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He could make up a complicated algorithm on the fly that left his professors in awe
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There are lots of buck-passing here
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Subject to oversight by …
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Walkers should be prepared for inclement weather
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She was a headstrong child
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A flippant attitude
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Sing with great gusto
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A surrogate mum
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A sterile argument
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He knitted his brow in concentration
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Pervert the court of justice
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Calamity relief work
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Have a hollow leg
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Sewing isn’t one of my fortes
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Different strokes for different folks
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Sense of alarm
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An indelible mark
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We can rise above all challenges and emerge stronger
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We ate to our heart’s content
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The very sight of it makes me nervous
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Settle in backroom negotiation
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Pallbearer
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I was taken aback
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Be losing it = start to become mad
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Deserve some slack
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Be at a loss = to not know what to do or say
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I am currently on the sideline
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Tidal bore
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I will enforce justice
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They hitched a lift/ride to Edinburgh from a passing car
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In a headlong rush to buy houses, many people got into debt
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Failure becomes the fire that forges the steel for success
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To fly a plane
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Most of these conjuring tricks depend on sleight of hand
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He had a big bash for his 18th birthday
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The odd flurry of snow
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The gardener’s compendium
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She sent me one of those awful birthday cards with a cutesy kitten on it
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Put a sock in it
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The shaft of a golf club
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The crippling attack of malaria kept him in bed for months
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Sneak a peek
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She fell into a deep trance
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You are such a buzz kill!
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Don’t slip. Watch your step
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He first dabbled in politics when he was in law school
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The rock is so crumbly
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Cover huge distance on foot
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She went into raptures at the news of her success
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Have a short fuse = get angry very easily
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He lifts weights after work to let/blow off steam
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Unwittingly targeted
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I’ve been his sidekick for long enough
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Turn the knob
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The court let her off scot-free
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She twitched her nose like a rabbit
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Yawn and drool
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She sat by the swimming pool, drooling over all the gorgeous young men
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The dog lay drooling on the mat
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I drooled all over my pillow
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Much obliged = used to thank someone and say that you are grateful
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They are bosom friends
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Come up short
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Cause dire consequences
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Play favouritism
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My eyes were smarting from the onions
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She had no qualms about lying to the police
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Make you full of yourself
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A glum face
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Whet your appetite
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He snapped at her
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I swore to usurp the throne
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I’ ll go for it
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Advertisers know how powerful pester power can be
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Ferris wheel
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Root for you
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You have done a disservice to the African people by ignoring this fact
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Those who think this is a harmless recreational drug should wise up
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Shopping spree
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She’s such an airhead
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Play dumb
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Play hooky
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Hold the fort
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The salesman is too pushy
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Pupil dilation
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Pick some lint off his shoulder
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The boat bobbed gently up and down in the river
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Among the audience, eyes glazed over and a few heads started to nod
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His physique was honed to perfection
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You strike me as the kind of person who…
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He always gives us a piggyback up the stairs to bed
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A purring cat
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Cast your mind back to
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The children would basically just run riot
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He sprawled on a park bench
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They go way overboard
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Humans are hard-wired to love fattening food
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It wasn’t until lately that
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They are up in arms about/over the new management scheme
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An omen of bad luck
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You chump!
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I ran into a pole
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Pinky swear
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A stitch in time saves nine
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Better safe than sorry
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The college is steeped in history/tradition
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Thatch of hair
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Boa constrictor
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Get/lose/find your bearings
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Pull the goalie (slang)
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Why does my dog hump my leg?
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Let me just sulk
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Come on. Mend it. Don’t end it.
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Sleep tight
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He has gone through every sentence with a fine-tooth comb
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Allay hunger/fear/concern
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He made little of his ordeal
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At night images would come unbidden into his mind
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He is always trying to curry favour with his boss
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The drum of war is getting louder
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I just wanted to quickly touch base with you:
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In store for you
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This has called forth an angry response from
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Dewy-eyed nostalgia
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To be on guard against
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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
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He doesn’t think of what he is saying and often puts his foot in his mouth
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It was made quite clear to me that if I stepped out of line again I’d be out of a job
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To foot the bill
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To think on your feet
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The countries are threatening to nuke each other
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An elevator shaft
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A well shaft
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A plume of dust/smoke
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He is a tough nut
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Shin pad
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Is drenched in sweat
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Has drenched us to the skin
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Good lean meat
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Orange zest
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Icing sugar
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Beat an egg in
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The edges of the plaster cover had cracked and splintered
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Grated cheese
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Use the gravy to add gleam and flavour
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He was clattering away on his old typewriter
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It is the finest moment in his career
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It is sore to the eyes
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Knead the dough until smooth
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Break it/the news to sb gently
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The strange sound made his blood curdle
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I will take the blame if I am wrong
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Lock on your bet
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Paper, rock, scissors
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A dashing young soldier
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Man of the hour
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Philanderer
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Green eye
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I regard him as a stick-in-the-mud
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It left a faint impression
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Go for it!
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I want to pick your brain
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A consolation prize
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As you get older, your bone becomes increasingly brittle
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Jump to their feet
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I am not at all convinced that he will
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Blow their own trumpets
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Smoking predisposes you to lung cancer
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This is nothing short of a wonder
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As such = in the true or exact meaning of the word or phrase
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We don’t have a secretary as such, but we do have a student who comes in to do a bit of filing
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A butchered version
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A thatched roof/ cottage
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Women should never hitchhike on their own
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He was grilled by legislators
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You will get a cut
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My eyebrows keep twitching
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I’m usually accosted by beggars and drunks as I walk to the station
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The government is trying to whitewash the incompetence of the Treasury officials
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Knee-jerk reflex
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Fall into a deep trance
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Bask in the sunshine
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Be bathed in the moonlight
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Why would you turn physical
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A different kettle of fish
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Smarten up
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Look through the viewfinder
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The pair of socks doesn’t go with the rest of my clothes
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My dinner companion
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There will not boots on the ground (no ground troops)
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Asymmetric attack
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A long, mellow afternoon
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She waited agog for news
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He looked at her aghast
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A cut-and-dried decision
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Cut to the chase
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Continue his lineage
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I have to defer to my boss on important decisions
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Anything that goes awry in the office is blamed on Pete
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Cliched as it may sound, pain is truly all in our heads
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Scalding water
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I don’t feel a thing!
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My head is throbbing
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Getting some work experience now will stand you in good stead when you apply for a permanent job
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She ran the meeting in his manager’s stead
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Wage a holy war against the Muslims
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The caliphs built splendid mosques to cement their rule
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The Mongols torched the city’s great libraries
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I noticed a couple of prostitutes plying for business on the corner
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As dawn settles, …
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Without a backward glance, …
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She made a brief foray into acting before becoming a teacher
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The current knocks him clean off his feet
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Alligators infested water
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Her boss has wandering hands
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What discussion? You weren’t talking to me, you were talking at me
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Snap sth apart
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The two sides have been at daggers drawn for some months now with no sign of improvement in relations
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New brooms sweep clean
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He spoke on the spur of the moment and perhaps spoke best of all
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Penny wise and pound foolish
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The story will not be accepted by the common run of people
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The gift of the gab
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Under sb’s nose
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The castle walls have stood the wear and tear of centuries
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Where the shoe pinches
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Tidy the loose end
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Police have not so far been able to extort a confession from the people accused of the bombing
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I hate it when cereal goes soggy
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Buy me a fancy dinner
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Mantis shrimp
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Fishing/football/golf widow
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Congratulations are due to Hong Kong for sticking to its guns, however much teeth-gritting this has cost its local exchange
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The ring is a family heirloom
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Beef jerky
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I may be able to pull a few strings if you need the document urgently
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Barbed fences
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It is important to nip this kind of bullying in the bud
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I suspect that she has had a nip and tuck (plastic surgery) to look like that in her age
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It was nip and tuck as to who would win the playoffs
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At last = at long last = in the end; after much delay
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Bachelor party vs bridal shower vs baby shower
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And then I slipped back into sloth
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By ten o’clock I was feeling rather peckish though I’d had a large breakfast
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I was shocked to the core
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Children can’t sit still for long without fidgeting
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A sedentary occupation/ lifestyle
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He had been fiddling the accounts/ books/ finances for years
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Put your papers down and stop fiddling!
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A cup and saucer
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She gave the cat a saucer of milk
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The report does not mince words, describing the situation as ‘ludicrous’
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Don’t push your luck
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Be like a cat on hot bricks
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Have a hand in sth = be involved in doing sth, e.g. The girls had a hand in writing the lyrics
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He tried to shush the children
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Caroline pouts her lips when she is putting on lipstick
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Have at least a nodding acquaintance with other disciplines
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He is likely to embroider the truth a bit
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I’m between jobs right now
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The year before last
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He sprang off his feet, and flung off his clothes
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The sparse and benign figures of the drooping willows
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Faintly remember
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Girls get together in cafeterias, sharing gossip, beauty tips and their secret crushes
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People feel the same visceral fear when they talk about the brutality and high-handedness of their teachers
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Cut corner
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Free-range chicken
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Our home had become a kind of dovecote. The comings and goings of its individual inhabitants had become unpredictable
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All bets are off
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Roll the dice
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In the cards
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Toy boy
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China is peaking off
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Not a speck of dirt
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She bought yet another pair of shoes to add to her collections
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I am sorry to bother you yet again
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He’s given us yet more work to do
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Suckling pig
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Wage a violent turf war against a rival gang
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Junket operators
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Chain-smoking high rollers
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Minerals in the seabed are washed ashore
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No guarantee of receiving back-pay once the crisis is resolved
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Stop raining on my parade
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Not be set/carved in stone
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If you have to let off steam, …
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He saw his visitors to the door
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Her friend saw her home
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The security guard saw the protestors off the premises
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The illegal gambling joint was already jumping (=busy)
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A damsel in distress
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Carla made fun of him behind his back
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She realized to her shame that she had forgotten Nina’s birthday
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Hang/ bow your head in shame
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There is no shame in being poor
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You’ve brought shame on this family
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Take/bring sb down a peg or two
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To close on a more serious note
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