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Question: Why do you never see pigs hiding in trees?

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Because they’re pretty good at it.

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Idiom: Drive someone’s pigs to market

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To snore.

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Question: What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?

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Time to fix the fence.

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Idiom: Elephant in the room

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An important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions.

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Idiom: Hold your horses

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Used to tell someone to stop and consider carefully.

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Idiom: Get someone’s goat

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To upset, irritate or anger someone.

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Idiom: Bigger fish to fry

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To have more important or more interesting things to do or attend to.

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Idiom: Cold turkey

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To quit something (like an addiction) abruptly and without fanfare.

[bruptly and without fanfare = náhle a bez fanfár]

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Idiom: Having an earworm

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A catchy song or tune that you can’t seem to get out of your head.

[ear = ucho + worm = červík ==> ušní červ]

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Idiom: Get butterflies in stomach

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Means you are anxious and have a nervous feeling in your stomach. Could be love.

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Idiom: Get your ducks in a row

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Get everything organized, straightened up and accounted.

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Idiom: Go down the rabbit hole

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Enter a situation that is strange, confusing, or illogical ; Got sucked into spending way to long reading about some topic.

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Idiom: Let the cat out of the bag

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To reveal something secret or private , often without intending to.

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Idiom: Raining cats and dogs

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Used to describe particularly heavy rain.

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Idiom: Snug as a bug in a rug

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In an extremely comfortable position or situation.

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Joke: Three fish are in a tank. One asks the others:

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“How do you drive this thing?”

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Question: What part of the chicken has the most feathers?

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The outside.

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Idiom: Wild goose chase

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A foolish and hopeless search for something unattainable.

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Question: Why do birds fly south in the winter?

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Because it’s too far to walk!

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Idiom: Break the leg

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Good luck!

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Idiom: Having a sweet tooth

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To like eating things that are sugary or taste sweet.

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Idiom: Keep your eyes peeled

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Watch out [for something].

[peel - loupat (brambory, banán)]

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Idiom: It is like pulling teeth

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It is very difficult. Not enjoyable.

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Idiom: Pay an arm and a leg

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A very high price.

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Idiom: Pick your brain

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Tell someone to tell you his view on some project or so. His ideas or so.

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Idiom: Pull someone’s leg

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To trick or lie to someone in a playful way.

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Idiom: Sticky fingers

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To be likely to steal.

[sticky = lepkavý]

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Idiom: To have Van Gogh’s ear for music

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A person cannot understand and differentiate musical tones.

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Idiom: Twist someone’s arm

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To force someone to do something.

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Idiom: Wear heart on the sleeve

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Openly show your feelings or emotions.

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Idiom: Buy it

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To belive to something. Or get hit by a bullet.

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Idiom: A couch potato

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Someone who spends most of their time watching television.

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Idiom: A hard nut to crack

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A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat.

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Question: Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?

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He had NO BODY to go with. *da dum tsss

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Question: Why it is not smart to leave things in Jesus hands?

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He has holes in them.

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Question: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

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A Carrot.

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Idiom: A piece of cake

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Something easily achieved.

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38
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Idiom: A smart cookie

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Someone smart.

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Idiom: Bite the bullet

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To do something unpleasant or painful because it is necessary even though you would like to avoid it.

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Idiom: Bite the dust

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To die/ be killed; to meet the end; to fail.

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Idiom: Do you want a cookie?

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Sarcastic way to say “So what”. “I work harder than people in my department” - “Do you want a cookie or something?”

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Idiom: Egg on your face

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To look foolish or be embarrassed.

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Idiom: Go bananas

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To go wild, to go crazy with excitement or other extreme emotions.

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Idiom: In a pickle

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In a tricky, difficult situation.

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Idiom: My cup of tea

A

Something that someone likes or is good at.

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Idiom: Spill the beans

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Reveal secret information unintentionally.

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Idiom: The best thing since sliced bread

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Used to emphasize one’s enthusiasm about a new idea, person, or thing.

(Nejelpší věc od vynálezu krájeného chleba)

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Idiom: Get out of hand

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To become difficult to control.

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Idiom: Give benefit of the doubt

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To believe something good about someone, rather than something bad.

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Idiom: Up for grabs

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Available to take.

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Idiom: Go belly up

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To fail; to go bankrupt (dead fish has belly up in the water).

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Idiom: Hit the books

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To study seriously.

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Idiom: Hit the hay

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Go to sleep.

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Idiom: Boil the ocean

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An impossible task or making a task unnecessarily difficult.

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Idiom: Bury head in the sand

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To refuse to think about unpleasant facts, although they will have an influence on your situation.

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Idiom: Bury the hatchet

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To agree to end the disagreement that has divided two people or groups.

[Hatchet = sekyrka]

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Idiom: Cut corners

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To do something in the easiest, cheapest, or fastest way.

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Idiom: Cut to the chase

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To get to the point without wasting time.

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Idiom: Go the extra mile

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Willing to make a special effort.

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Idiom: Go with the flow

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To do what other people are doing or agree with their opinions.

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Question: If Tim enters a race with 4 other people, what is the probabiloty of him winning?

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50% - He either wins or he loses.

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Idiom: Kick a bucket

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To die.
[Bucket list]

63
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Idiom: Let the dust settle

A

You let a situation calm down before you try to do anything else.

[settle = usadit se (tento případ) , spokojit se]

64
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Idiom: Lose your marbles

A

Go insane.

[marbels = skleněnky/kuličky]

65
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Idiom: Make waves

A

To be very active, often in a way that intentionally causes trouble.

66
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Idiom: Play second fiddle

A

To be less important or in a weaker position than someone else.

[fiddle = housle]

67
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Idiom: Roll with the punches

A

To be able to deal with a series of difficult situations and still continue.

[punch = úder]

68
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Idiom: Scrape the barrel

A

To use the worst people or things because that is all you have.

[Scrape = vyškrábnout, škrabat]

69
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Joke: Two guys walk into a bar.

A

The third guy ducks.
[To duck = skrčit se; Bar = bar nebo tyč]

70
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Question: What jumps higher than a five-story building?

A

Anything that can jump — buildings don’t jump!

71
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Question: Which runs faster, hot or cold?

A

Hot! Everyone can catch a cold.

72
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Idiom: Can´t see the forest for the trees

A

An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole.

73
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Idiom: Castle in the sky

A

A desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to ever be realized

74
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Idiom: Over the moon

A

To be very happy, even delighted.

75
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Idiom: The tip of the iceberg

A

An event that is merely a part of a larger and more complex issue.

76
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Idiom: Call the spade a spade

A

Speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things.

77
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Joke: eBay is so useless.

A

I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches.

[Match = zápalka či shoda (zápas)]

78
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Joke: I sold my vacuum the other day.

A

All it was doing was collecting dust.

79
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Idiom: In the same boat

A

Be in the same circumstances as others.

80
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Idiom: Ring a bell

A

To sound familiar.

81
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Idiom: Take the back seat

A

To have a secondary position or status.

82
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Joke: Two windmills are standing on a wind farm. One asks, “What’s your favorite type of music?”

A

The other says, “I’m a big metal fan.”

83
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Idiom: At sea

A

“V lese”.

84
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Idiom: Beat the wind // Beat the air

A

To make repeated futile attempts.

[Futila = marné]

85
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Idiom: Break the ice

A

Do or say something to relieve tension or get conversation going.

[to relieve tension = uvolnit napětí]

86
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Idiom: Call it a day

A

You decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.

87
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Idiom: Out of the blue

A

Randomly or unexpectedly.

88
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Idiom: Plain as a day

A

Very easy to see, or very obvious and easy to understand.

[plain = prostý, jasný (plain toast - samotný toust)]

89
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Idiom: Steal someone’s thunder.

A

To prevent someone from having by doing or saying what that person was planning to do or say.

[thunder = bouře]

90
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Idiom: Take a rain check

A

Not accept immediately, though you may later.

91
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Question: What did the ocean say to the other ocean?

A

Nothing. He waved.

92
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Idiom: A wet blanket

A

A person who spoils all the fun by disapproving of the activities. Someone who dampens everybody’s enthusiasm.

93
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Idiom: Be swamped

A

Have so much work to do.

94
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Idiom: Call dibs

A

Calling sometning yours. Mostly on last cookie or girl.

95
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Idiom: Can it!

A

Can = plechovka, => zaplechovkuj to = shut up

96
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Idiom: Fair and square

A

In an honest way and without any doubt.

97
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Idiom: I’ll show myself out

A

To guide yourself out - if you say cheesy joke. “I know this was stupid joke, Ill leave”.

98
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Idiom: Rise and shine

A

Use towake someone up in the morning.

99
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Idiom: Speak of the devil

A

Said when a person appears just after being mentioned.

100
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Idiom: The lights are on, but nobody’s home

A

Used to describe a person who isn’t very smart.

101
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Idiom: Throw a pity party

A

Spending time feeling sorry for themselves.

102
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Joke: I hate Russian dolls.

A

They’re so full of themselves.

103
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Question: What colour of flowers you can get to every girl to match her eyes?

A

White ones – thats the most of the eye.

104
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Joke: What’s the best part about living in Switzerland?

A

I don’t know, but the flag is a big plus.

105
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Willy-nilly

A

Without planning or order

106
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Wonky

A

Turned or twisted fabric.

107
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Must watch (!):
Daniel Sloss(2); Gravity falls; Grinch(5); Iron Giant(4)

A

Must watch (!):
Stopařův průvodce po galaxii(po knize); The Emperor’s New Groove (3); Your name (1)

108
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Idiom: In a nutshell

A

Very briefly, giving only the main points

109
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Idiom: Sticky situation

A

A tough situation to get out of, or a sensitive situation

[sticky = lepkavý, lepivý]

110
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Idiom: Until hell freezes over

A

In the impossibly distant future; forever.

111
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Idiom: Beat around the bush

A

Avoid saying what you mean (usually because it is uncomfortable).

[Bush = křovisko; Avoid = vyhýbat se]

112
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Idiom: Cut somebody some slack

A

Don´t be critical. Be less harsh.

[Slack = volný, ochablý, laxní ; Harsh = drsný, tvrdý]

113
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Idiom: Get something out of your system

A

Do the thing you’ve been wanting to do - so you can move on.

114
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Idiom: Hang in there

A

Don’t give up.

115
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Idiom: Let someone off the hook

A

To not hold someone responsible for something.

[Hook = hák]

116
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Idiom: On the ball

A

Very alert / aware of what is happening.

117
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Idiom: Pull yourself together

A

Recover control of emotions. Mostly negative ones.

118
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Idiom: Under the weather

A

Feel sick.

119
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Idiom: We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it

A

Not to worry about a possible problem until it actually happens.

120
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Idiom: Don’t give up your day job

A

If someone is not good at something. He wouldn´t be able to pay bills if he would try to make money that way.

121
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Idiom: Give someone the cold shoulder

A

Ignore.

122
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Idiom: Ignorance is bliss

A

It is better not to know.

123
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Idiom: On thin ice

A

Risky situation.

124
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Idiom: Put something on ice

A

Put a project on hold.

125
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Idiom: Rain on someone’s parade

A

To spoil something.

126
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Idiom: Saving for a rainy day

A

Save money for later.

127
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Idiom: The ball is in your court

A

It is up to you to make the next move.

128
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Idiom: A snowball’s chance in hell

A

No chance at all.

129
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Idiom: A storm in a teacup

A

Great outrage or excitement about a trivial matter.

130
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Idiom: Make a fuss

A

A show of anger, worry, or excitement that is unnecessary or greater than the situation deserves.

131
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Idiom: Don’t beat a dead horse

A

Move on, this subject is over.

132
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Idiom: Sitting on the fence

A

Delay making a decision.

133
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Idiom: Leave no stone unturned

A

Look everywhere.

134
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Idiom: Like two peas in a pod

A

Being always together.

135
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Idiom: Out of the frying pan and into the fire

A

Things are going from bad to worse.

136
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Idiom: Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

A

To remind people not to criticize others for a flaw that you have too.

137
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Idiom: Low hanging fruit

A

The most easily achieved of a set of tasks.

138
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Idiom: Be a chicken

A

Be a coward.

139
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Idiom: Be like a fish out of water

A

To feel uncomfortable in unfimiliar situation.

140
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Idiom: Curiosity killed the cat

A

Warning - being curious can get you into some trouble.

141
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Idiom: Have cows

A

To get extremly upset.

142
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Idiom: Have kittens

A

To get extremly upset.

143
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Idiom: A cat’s chance in hell

A

No chance at all.

144
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Idiom: A little bird told me …

A

To recive information and not saying whom from. In a cute way.
“A little bird told me that it was your birthday today!”

145
Q

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back

A

Use to warn people. Being curious can get you into trouble but reward of finding out something or learning something new could be worth it.

146
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Idiom: Dead wood

A

Workers no longer contributing to an organization.

147
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Idiom: Wouldn’t be caught dead

A

Said about something that you would rather die than being seen to do / have on.

148
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Idiom: Useful as a chocolate teapot

A

Totally usless (but tasty).

149
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Idiom: Bad egg

A

Bad person.

150
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Idiom: Cold as a cucumber

A

Very calm.

151
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Idiom: In a nutshell

A

In summary.

152
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Idiom: A watched pot never boils

A

Things appear to go more slowly if you wait for it.

153
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

A

Example : Janet quitted her job because her ex started working there even though she loved the job
an avoidable error in which something good or of value is eliminated when trying to get rid of something unwanted

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