Idioms 1 Flashcards
Hold your feet to the fire
Insist that someone fulfills their promise
Grit your teeth
Act bravely
Comb through
Look into something carefully
Get your feet wet
Take part in a new activity
Fight tooth and nail
Fight very fiercely
Shoot from the hip
Speak bluntly
Back the wrong horse
Make an inapropriate decision
Ducks and drakes
Carlessly misuse one’s health. He lost his job for playing ducks and drakes
Hang fire
Delay making
Upset someone
Tread on your toes
Make u feel embarrassed
Male your toes curl
Be updated
Keep your finger on the pulse
Surprise and upset
Knock someone for six
Play hardball
Be so determined to get what they want that they use unfair methods
Suddenly
At one fell swoop
Frighten someone
Make my hair stand an end
Do soemthing as completely as possible
Go the whole log
Ready to become important
Wait in the wings
Make money in a dishonest way
Live in his own pockets
Be punnished
Be brought to book
Punish someone as severely as possible
Throw the book at
Done to a turn
Perfectly cooked
Triste
Down in the mouth
Off the mark
Incorrect