Idioms Flashcards
To panic
Lose your head
To be mad, off your head
Be out of your mind
To lose hope
Lose heart
To be very clumsy, always dropping things
To be all fingers and thumbs
A person who always annoys you
A pain in the neck
When someone annoys you
Get on your nerves
When you’re sure about something, but you can’t express it
A gut feeling
A brilliant idea
A brainwave
To help
To lend / give a hand
To start to feel that you are not brave enough to do something
Get cold feet
To hope that something will happen in the way you want it to
Keep your fingers crossed
To be nervous
Have butterflies in your tummy
To shoot, to break the ice
To pull the trigger
To have the courage to do something
Have the guts / Get up the nerve or courage
Somebody with the same ideas as you
Be kindred spirits / See eye to eye
Very different
Be like chalk and cheese
Very early in the morning
At the crack of dawn
Opposite of wide awake
Fast asleep
Repeatedly
Over and over again
Rich
Filthy rich, wealthy, rolling in it, well-off
Wonderful people
The salt of the earth
About to cry
On the verge of tears
Very worried
Worried sick
The last problem in a series of problems
The last/final straw