Work Idioms Flashcards
To be very expensive
To cost an arm and a leg
To start a task over
To go back to the drawing board
To tell someone the news
To break the news
A job that won’t lead to anything else
A dead-end job
To cause a feeling of disgust and horror
To give one the creeps
To go bankrupt
To go belly-up
To fire someone
To give someone the ax
A failure
A real flop
Very smart
As sharp as a tack
Discuss
Talk over
The highest range of a price range
Top dollar
To get fired
To get canned
The most important person at work for your
The right-hand man
To betray
To stab someone in the back
To face a problem with dignity
To keep the chin up
Never
When pigs fly
To be positive
To look on the bright side
Not to give up
Hang in there
Unemployed
Out of work
While
In the meantime
To live with only the very necessary
To live from hand to mouth
To be stressed
To be stressed out
To be able to afford a lifestyle
To make ends meet
The last thing to try
As a last resort
Things get worse
Worse comes to worst
To desire something big
To think big
Harder to be done in reality
Easier said than done
