Idioms Flashcards

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1
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To panic

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Lose your head

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2
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To be mad, off your head

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Be out of your mind

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3
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To lose hope

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Lose heart

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4
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To be very clumsy, always dropping things

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To be all fingers and thumbs

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5
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A person who always annoys you

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A pain in the neck

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6
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When someone annoys you

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Get on your nerves

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7
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When you’re sure about something, but you can’t express it

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A gut feeling

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8
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A brilliant idea

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A brainwave

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9
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To help

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To lend / give a hand

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10
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To start to feel that you are not brave enough to do something

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Get cold feet

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11
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To hope that something will happen in the way you want it to

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Keep your fingers crossed

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12
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To be nervous

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Have butterflies in your tummy

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13
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To shoot, to break the ice

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To pull the trigger

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14
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To have the courage to do something

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Have the guts / Get up the nerve or courage

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15
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Somebody with the same ideas as you

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Be kindred spirits / See eye to eye

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16
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Very different

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Be like chalk and cheese

17
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Very early in the morning

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At the crack of dawn

18
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Opposite of wide awake

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Fast asleep

19
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Repeatedly

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Over and over again

20
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Rich

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Filthy rich, wealthy, rolling in it, well-off

21
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Wonderful people

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The salt of the earth

22
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About to cry

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On the verge of tears

23
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Very worried

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Worried sick

24
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The last problem in a series of problems

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The last/final straw

25
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Very astute or clever

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As cunning as a fox

26
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A false friend

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A wolf in sheep’s clothing

27
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To be suspicious

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Smell a rat / There’s something fishy going on

28
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To be bad-tempered or angry for a short period of time

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Be in a bad/black mood

29
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Ill sick

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Be off colour / Be under the weather

30
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To decide to do something although it is unpleasant

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Bite the bullet