Idioms Flashcards

1
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To panic

A

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

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17
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Very early in the morning

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At the crack of dawn

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18
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Opposite of wide awake

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Fast asleep

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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
Very astute or clever
As cunning as a fox
26
A false friend
A wolf in sheep's clothing
27
To be suspicious
Smell a rat / There's something fishy going on
28
To be bad-tempered or angry for a short period of time
Be in a bad/black mood
29
Ill sick
Be off colour / Be under the weather
30
To decide to do something although it is unpleasant
Bite the bullet
31
To reconsider a decision you have already made
Have second thoughts
32
To catch somebody doing something wrong
Catch someone red-handed
33
To be very happy
Be over the moon
34
A sympathetic listener
Be a shoulder to cry on
35
To be optimistic
Look on the bright side
36
Very few
Few and far between
37
Unexpectedly
Out of the blue
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To like someone
Take to
39
To like someone gradually
Someone grows on yo
40
To be comfortable in somebody's house
Make yourself at home
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To watch someone very closely
Watch someone like a hawk
42
To say or to do something inappropriate
Put your foot in it
43
To find something amazing
Take your breath away
44
Desahogarse
Get something off your chest
45
To earn very little money
Earn peanuts