Idioms Flashcards

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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

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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

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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
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Back on ones feet

A

Recover after a failure

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7
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Beat around the bush

A

Talk vague instead direct

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8
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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
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By the skin of your teeth

A

barely

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11
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Call it a day

A

End work for the day

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12
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Coast is clear

A

Nothing standing in your way

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13
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Costs an arm and a leg

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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

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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
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Drive someone up the wall

A

Make person angry or annoyed

18
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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
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Fish for compliments

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Attempt to make someone compliment you

23
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Fly off the handle

A

Become very very angry

24
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Full of hot air

A

Nonsense

25
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Get a kick out of something

A

Find something very interesting

26
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Get out of hand

A

Loss of control

27
Q

Get your act together

A

Get yourself organised

28
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Get to the bottom of it

A

Solve a mystery

29
Q

Give someone a hand

A

Help someone out