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Idioms Flashcards

To master common idiomatic expressions

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Worse things happen at sea

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Más se perdió en Cuba

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There’s no accounting for taste

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Sobre gustos no hay nada escrito

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Till all hours

We were chatting till all hours

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Hasta las tantas

Estuvimos charlando hasta las tantas

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To be bored stiff / to death

I am as bored as an oyster

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Aburrirse como una ostra

Me aburro como una ostra

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To be in no mood for fun and games

I’m in no mood for fund and games today

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No estar para fiestas

Hoy no estoy para fiestas

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To go smoothly

Everything is going smoothly

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ir sobre ruedas

Todo va sobre ruedas

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My dream

It’s my ultimate dream

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Mi sueño dorado

Es mi sueño dorado

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To shake like a leaf

When the interview started, I was shaking like a leaf (flan)

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Temblar como un flan

Cuando comenzó la entrevista, temblaba como un flan

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What’s got into him? Who rattled his cage?

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Qué mosca le habrá picado?

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To swear profusely / let rip

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Soltar ajos y cebollas

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To have a face a mile long

Lit. To have a face like a Swiss chard

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Tener cara de acelga

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To pull a fast one on somebody

Lit. To give someone cat instead of hare

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Dar a alguien gato por liebre

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Truth will out

Lit. Lies have short legs

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Las mentiras tienen patas cortas

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Pull the other one

Lit. Tell that one to your grandmother

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Cuéntaselo a tu abuela

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My other half / soul-mate

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Mi media naranja

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To refuse to back down

L.t To not get down from your donkey

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No apearse del burro

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You can never please everyone

It never rains to everyone’s taste

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Nunca llueve a gusto de todos

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To bad mouth somebody / slag somebody off

Lit. To talk plagues about someone

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Hablar pestes de alguien

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To stick out like a sore thumb

Lit. To be like a guitar at a funeral

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Ser como guitarra en un entierro

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To put your foot in it

Lit. To dip your leg

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Meter la pata

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As red as a beetroot

Lit. As red as a tomato

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Como un tomate

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To have been born yesterday

I wasn’t born yesterday

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Haberse caído del guindo

No me he caído del guindo

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To be really smart (smarter than Lepe)

Lepe - 17th century bishop famed for cleverness

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Ser más listo que Lepe

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To know absolutely everything

Lit. To know the bible in verse

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Saber la biblia en verso

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To know something like the back of your hand

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Conocer algo como la palma de la mano

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To get the wrong end of the stick

Lit. To take hold of the radish by the leaves

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Tomar el rábano por las hojas

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To be full of yourself / blow your own trumpet

Lit. To not need a grandmother (to blow your trumpet)

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No necesitar abuela

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To be as bald as a coot

Lit. To have a head like a billiard ball

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Tener la cabeza como una bola de billar

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To get (seek) a lot of media attention

Lit. To suck the camera

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Chupar cámara

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To be as mad as a hatter

Lit. To be more mad than a goat

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Estar más loco que una cabra

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As dumb as an ox

Lit. More stupid than a plough

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Más bruto que un arado

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To be a bit dim / not very bright

Lit. To be of few lights

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Ser de pocas luces

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To be as thick as two short planks

Lit. Not to have two fingers of forehead

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No tener los dedos de frente

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They are birds of a feather

Lit. To be wolves form one litter

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Son lobos de una camada

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To be inseperable

To be like (finger) nail and flesh

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Ser uña y carne

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Let’s not confuse matters / muddle things

Lit. You mustn’t confuse gymnastics with magnesium

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No hay que confundir la gimnasia con la magnesia

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Pigs might fly

Lit. When frogs grow hair

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Cuando las ranas críen pelo

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To make a mountain out of a molehill

Lit. To drown in a glass of water

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Ahogarse en un vaso de agua

Ella se ahoga en un vaso de agua

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To jump out of the frying pan into the fire

Lit. To go from Guatelmala to Guata wrose

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Ir de Guatemala a Guatapeor

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To be between a roack and a hard place / the devil and the deep blue sea

Lit. To be between the sword and the wall

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Estar entre la espada y la pared

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To ask for the impossible

Lit. To ask an elm tree for pears

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Pedir peras al olmo

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To throw a spanner in the works

Lit. To put sticks in the wheels

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Meter palos en las ruedas

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It’s a piece of cake / easy as pie

Lit. It is eaten bread

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Es pan comido

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Lif is no bed of roses

Lit. Not all the hillside is oregano

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No todo el monte es orégano

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In a flash / in no time

Lit. In two kicks

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En dos patadas

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To be in charge / call the shots

Lit. To cut the cod

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Cortar el bacalao

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To be in charge

Lit. To carry the (conductor’s) baton

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Llevar la batuta

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To the letter (exactly)

Lit. To the foot of the letter

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Al pie de la letra

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To work your socks off / work like a dog

Lit. To work like a donkey

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Trabajar como un burro

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To work very hard / slog away

Lit. To work like an ant

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Trabajar como una hormiga

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Some do all the work, others take all the credit

Lit. Card the wool

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Unos cardan la lana y otros cobran la fama

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Rome wasn’t built in a day

Lit. Zamora wasn’t won in a hour

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No se ganó Zamora en una hora

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Let’s move on to something else

Lit. To something else, butterfly

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A otra cosa, mariposa

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At the back of beyond

Lit. In the fifth hell

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En el quinto infierno

Vive en el quinto infierno

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To be off like a shot / rush off

To go away whistling

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Irse pitando
(Me voy pitando)

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To thumb (a lift)

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Hacer dedo

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Just in case / to be on the safe side

Lit. In case the flies

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Por si las moscas

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To stuff your face

Lit. To eat with two cheeks

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Comer a dos carrillos

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To live like a king

Lit. To live like the body of a king

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Vivir a cuerpo de rey

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To drink like a fish

Lit. To drink like a sponge

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Beber como un esponja

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As drunk asa skunk / completely plastered

Lit. As drunk as a wine barrel

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Borracho como una cuba

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By the bucketload

Lit. In industrial quantities

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En cantidades industriales

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To sleep on it

Lit. To consult the pillow

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Consultarlo con la almohada

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To not mince your words

Lit. Not to have hairs on your tongue

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No tener pelos e la lengua

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To sit on the fence

Lit. To swim between two waters

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Nadar entre dos aguas

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It goes without saying

Lit. It falls from its own weight

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Se cae por su propio peso

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To be rolling in it

Lit. To be swimming in abundance

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Nadar en la abundancia

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To spare no expense

Lit. To throw the house through the window

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Tirar la casa por la ventana

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To go on and on / drone on

Lit. To roll up like a blind

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Enrollarse como una persiana

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To stick your oar in

Lit. To put your spoon in

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Meter la cuchara

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