Vocabulary VII

Question 1

Tener dudas, estar entre dos aguas

Answer 1

To be in two minds

Question 2

Impetuoso

Answer 2

Impetuous

Question 3

Flor de un día

Answer 3

A flash in the pan

Question 4

Humildemente

Answer 4

Go cap in hand

Question 5

Efusivo

Answer 5

Effusive

Question 6

Sano y salvo

Answer 6

Safe and sound

Question 7

Cerrar el pico, callarse la boca

Answer 7

To clam up

Question 8

Meter la pata

Answer 8

To put your foot in it, to put your foot in your mouth

Question 9

Pillar a alguien con las manos en la masa

Answer 9

To be caught red-handed

Question 10

Agresivo, avasallador

Answer 10

Pushy

Question 11

Tímido, cohibido

Answer 11

Self-conscious

Question 12

Taciturno

Answer 12

Taciturn

Question 13

Equilibrado

Answer 13

Well-balanced

Question 14

Llamar a las cosas por su nombre

Answer 14

To call a spade a spade

Question 15

Estar, meterse en un berenjenal

Answer 15

To be on a slippery slope

Question 16

Ser la leche

Answer 16

To be the cat’s pajamas, to be the cat’s meow

Question 17

Tocarte la china

Answer 17

To draw the short straw

Question 18

Introvertido

Answer 18

Introvert

Question 19

Acaparar más de la cuenta

Answer 19

To bite off more than you can chew

Question 20

La pelota está en tu campo

Answer 20

The ball is in your court

Question 21

De verdad, no es mentira

Answer 21

No cap

Question 22

Estar muy equivocado

Answer 22

To bark up the wrong tree

Question 23

Jugárselo todo a una carta

Answer 23

To put all your eggs in one basket

Question 24

Desahogarse, liberar tensiones

Answer 24

To let off steam

Question 25

Tener que, deber, suponerse

Answer 25

Be meant to…

Question 26

Más sano que una pera

Answer 26

To be as fit as a fiddle

Question 27

Aprobar con muy buenas notas

Answer 27

To pass with flying colours

Question 28

Trabajar día y noche, a destajo

Answer 28

To burn the candle at both ends

Question 29

Dar un cachete, dar una bofetada

Answer 29

To smack

Question 30

Dar el tipo, dar una buena imagen, estar a la altura

Answer 30

To look the part

Question 31

En caliente

Answer 31

In the heat of the moment

Question 32

Quitarse el sombrero ante alguien

Answer 32

To take your hat off to somebody

Question 33

Tener un asunto pendiente con alguien

Answer 33

To have a bone to pick with somebody

Question 34

De buena tinta, de su propia boca

Answer 34

Straight from the horse’s mouth

Question 35

No hay mal que por bien no venga

Answer 35

A blessing in disguise

Question 36

Como dos gotas de agua

Answer 36

Two peas in a pod

Question 37

Estar hasta arriba de trabajo

Answer 37

To have too much on your plate

Question 38

Encantado de la vida, contentísimo

Answer 38

Be thrilled to bits

Question 39

Pagaría por saber lo que estás pensando

Answer 39

Penny for your thoughts

Question 40

Predicar con el ejemplo

Answer 40

Walk the talk, walk it like you talk it

Question 41

A las duras y las maduras, para lo bueno y para lo malo

Answer 41

Through thick and thin

Question 42

Encantar, flipar

Answer 42

Get a kick out of something

Question 43

Pasar el marrón, escurrir el bulto

Answer 43

Pass the buck

Question 44

Sentirse la persona más feliz del mundo

Answer 44

On top of the world

Question 45

Porque te da la gana, por gusto

Answer 45

To do something for kicks

Question 46

Afrontar las consecuencias, apechugar

Answer 46

To face the music

Question 47

Pasar página

Answer 47

Turn over a new leaf

Question 48

Creerse la mitad de lo que uno dice

Answer 48

To take something with a pinch of salt

Question 49

Robarle el protagonismo a alguien

Answer 49

To steal somebody’s thunder

Question 50

Agarrarse a un clavo ardiendo

Answer 50

To clutch at straws

Question 51

Hay mucho más donde elegir

Answer 51

There are plenty more fish in the sea

Question 52

Por todas partes, hasta el último rincón

Answer 52

Every nook and cranny

Question 53

Empezar algo, ponerse en marcha

Answer 53

Get the show on the road

Question 54

No tener la más mínima opción

Answer 54

Not have a snowball’s chance in hell