Idioms Flashcards
Bite off more than you can chew
To take on more responsibilities or tasks than you’re capable of handling
Rain on someone’s parade
To spoil or ruin someone’s plans or event.
Example: “I hate to rain on your parade, but we can’t go to the concert tonight because it’s sold out.”
Cut to the chase
Meaning: To get to the point or the most important part of a conversation, without wasting time on unnecessary details.
Example: “Can you cut to the chase and tell me what you really want?”
Bend over backwards
Meaning: To put in a lot of effort to achieve smt or help someone
Example: “The hotel staff bent over backwards to make sure our stay was comfortable.”
Speak of the devil
Meaning: When someone mentions someone, and then that person suddenly appears or is mentioned again.
Example:
Person A: “I haven’t seen John in ages.”
Person B: “Speak of the devil, here he comes!” (Just then, John walks into the room.)
Full of beans
The phrase ‘full of beans’ is used to say when someone is always full of vigor or merriness.
Example in use: “When he heard the news on the radio, Phillip was absolutely full of beans.”
Get off on the right foot
Make a good start at something
cross that bridge when I/we/you come to it
Not worrying about possible future problems
I know my way around
I know my way around” is an idiom that means to be familiar with or skilled at something
Ex. She really knows her way around a sailboat”.
Get my thoughts straight
To organize your ideas
Lean into discomfort
It’s advice that encourages us to step outside of our comfort zones, try new things, and embrace the possibility of failure or embarrassment
Both positive and negative (weapon)
double-edge sword
Few possibility that smt happen
What are the odds?
e.g. What are the odds of winning the lottery?
If you are _____, you have escaped from a difficult situation
e.g. I thought I was _____when my sister said she’d host the family party this Christmas.
Be off the hook
to be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day
e.g. It seems like Carlos __ __ __ __ __ __ this morning; he’s been unusually grumpy and irritable since we started our meeting
get out of bed on the wrong side
to be unsuccessful or to fail to remember something
e.g. I ___ ___ ___on his name”
To draw a blank (drew)
in the opposite direction, order, or manner
e.g. You’d think you were the one who did me the favor, and not __ __ __ __
The other way around
