Idioms Flashcards

1
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A dime a dozen

A

Common & not very valuable

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2
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A sight for sore eyes

A

Something or someone ur glad to see

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3
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A taste of your own medicine

A

Experience same unpleasant thing that you had done to others

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4
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All ears

A

Prepared to hear

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5
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At the drop of a hat

A

To do it immediately

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6
Q

Back on ones feet

A

Recover after a failure

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7
Q

Beat around the bush

A

Talk vague instead direct

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8
Q

Best thing since sliced bread

A

Excellent innovative or new

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9
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Bite the bullet

A
  • Accept unpleasant or didn’t

Want to do initially

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10
Q

By the skin of your teeth

A

barely

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11
Q

Call it a day

A

End work for the day

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12
Q

Coast is clear

A

Nothing standing in your way

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13
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Costs an arm and a leg

A

Expensive

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14
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Crack up

A

Laugh lot and loudly

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15
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Cream of the crop

A

Best quality

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16
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Cut somebody some slack

A

Go easy as the y have been through enough

17
Q

Drive someone up the wall

A

Make person angry or annoyed

18
Q

Egg someone on

A

Urging to do something often bad

19
Q

Elephant in the room

A

Obviously embarrassing unpleasant. And no one wants to talk about it

20
Q

Fan the flames

A

Worsen something that is already bad

21
Q

Far cry from l

A

Different from something else

22
Q

Fish for compliments

A

Attempt to make someone compliment you

23
Q

Fly off the handle

A

Become very very angry

24
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Full of hot air

25
Get a kick out of something
Find something very interesting
26
Get out of hand
Loss of control
27
Get your act together
Get yourself organised
28
Get to the bottom of it
Solve a mystery
29
Give someone a hand
Help someone out