Idioms Flashcards
Leave high and dry
Leave smb in difficult situation without any help
Word to the wise
Used to say when giving some advise or a warning
Get on your high horse
Start talking angrily about something bad that someone else has done as if you feel you are better or more clever than they are. Showing arrogance and conceit.
To rub off on
To be transferred to: if a feeling, quality or habit rubs off on you, you start to have it because you are with another person who has it on
Wing it
To do something without preparation or plans, to improvise
Bust a gut
1) To work very hard to make a big effort
2) To laugh in an uncontrolled way
Break a sweat
Вкладывать большое количество энергии и усилий в выполнение задачи
Wolf down
Съесть что-то быстро или жадно
To get off on smth
to find something exciting, especially in a sexual way
Bring to fruision
Приносит плоды
Pay the piper
Bear the consequences of an action or activity that one has enjoyed