Idioms Flashcards
To have nothing to do
Be at loose end (If you find yourself at a loose end, you could always clean the bathroom.)
To unwind (you are trying to remove all the stress in your life)
Let off steam
To relax
Put your feet up(After working all week, you deserve to put your feet up)
To be lazy
a couch potato(Aldo is a real couch potato and doesn’t like to participate in any activity that makes him tired or sweaty.)
To take a break
Take five
To recovery
Recharge your baterry( She took a trip to the South of France to recharge her batteries)
Use the internet
Surf the net
what makes life more enjoyable
It is merely that variety is the spice of life.
To be on fire
Be on the ball
To jump ahead( precipitarse)
Jump the gun
To be very soon (about to happen) near
Around the corner(There’s a great restaurant just around the corner)
To do something fast
in a flash(The ceremony was over in a flash)
To be just in time
in the nick of time (You are arriving in the nick of time and, with your hard-earned experience, you can help rescue our democracy)
To not know the time
Lose track of time
To be too soon
before your time
never
When pings fly
permanently
for good(She says she’s leaving him for good.)
to do something rarely
Once in a blue moon ( My sister lives in Alaska, so I only see her once in a blue moon)
Sunddenly
On the spur of the moment(We hadn’t planned to go away - it was one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions.)
tight
be a cheapskate
pay for
foot the bill
the ability to do sth well
have an eye for
not have money
be pinching pennies
unemployes
be oon the dole
