domingo, 18 de junio de 2017

IDIOMS

  • TO  MAKE A FOOL OF ONESELF  : QUEDAR EN RIDICULO
  • Not a drop was spilt
  • Lead astray: llevar  por  mal  camino
  • Who's to blame?
  • To get  into  trouble
  • Get of my  back; deja de  meterte conmigo
  • to take a day  off
  • To be a good-for-nothing
  • To have a  leg to  stand on
  • These  stand  sb in good stead

  • when it comes to the crunch
  • it happened out of the  blue
  • The calm  before the  storm
  • It's just a storm  in a teacup
  • to jump on the  bandwagon /  to join the  bandwagon
  • Money
    • To cost  the earth / a fortune / an arm and a  leg
    • to make the ends meet
    • Prices  are  rocketing
  • to practish what you  preaches
  • Understand
    • It's  unclear as  mud
    • to be spaced out
    • To  be  at a  loss
    • To  be out at sea
    • to make a  head or tail  of  it
    • To  put  two and two together
    • To  leanr one's lesson
    • One thing led to the  other
  • Realise
    • Open  sb's  eyes
  • Aproval
    • To  give the green light
    • to give the  go-ahead
    • Out of question
  • Easy
    • It's a  piede of  cake
    • It's plain sailing
    • It's not  rocket sailing
  • To be a means to an end
  • Conversation
    • It goes  without saying
    • Needless to say
    • To have  your say on
    • To go off a tangent / at tangents = irse  por la tangente
  • Emotions
    • Nervous
      • To have butterflies  in  your stomach
      • To do it in  cold blood
    • Suffer
      • It's a real  nightmare
    • Happy
      • To be like a dog with a  bone
      • To jump  for joy
      • To be  thrill to bits
      • To be  in  seventh heaven
      • To be on cloud nine
    • Anger
      • To be like a red rag to a  bull
      • Add  fuel  to the  flames
      • this makes  his  blood boil
    • Sadness
      • Hebroke my heart
      • To need a cry to  cry on
    • Depression
      • To feel under the weather
      • To be down to the dumps
    • Humour
      • To  be  a bear with a sore head
  • Time
    • To be in a  rush
    • to  rush off my  feet
    • How time  flies
    • To work against the clock
    • To have time  on  your hands / to have time  to  yourself
    • to turn back the clock
    • In a  blink of an  eye
    • a snail's pace
    • step by  step
    • It's only a  matter of time
    • It's  a  sign  of times
    • Once and again
    • Better late than  never
  • Now
    • On  the spur  of the moment
    • To do  it there and then
    • In  the  heat of the moment
    • On a whim
    • On an  impulse
  • Hobbies
    • To  be  keen  on
    • to be fond of
    • I can't wait to
  • Differences
    • To break the mould
  • Options
    • The  lesser  of two evils
    • If I was in  your  shoes
    • To be a fence sitter
    • Take it or leave it
    • The other side of the coin
    • to play the devils's advocate
    • I don't know  which  way toturn
    • by hook or by crook
    • to be caught in  the middle
    • To be rooted on the spot
    • The  best of both worlds
  • relationships
    • To see eye to eye  with somebody
    • to get on like house on fire
    • To become close to
    • Break the  ice
    • to keep yourself to yourself
    • Birds of a feather flock together
    • all  walks  of  life
  • Progress
    • To take great strides
    • To stand a chance
  • Control
    • To keep at  bay
    • To keep  an  eagle  eye on...
    • to  toe the line
    • My life  is in your hands
    • To hold  of the aces
    • to be on  your guard
    • Do as you  are told
  • Risks
    • To beat  stake
    • to  take a gamble / a risk
  • Appeareances
    • A leopard can't change  its spots
    • You can't judge a bokk by its  cover
    • to be a blessing in desguise
  • Criticise
    • There  is no smoke without  fire
    • Hear it on the grapevine
  • Don't cry  over spilt milk
  • Don't put  your eggs in  one basket
  • It's the  last  straw
  • The grass  is greener on the other side of the fence
  • While the cat  is  away  the mice  play
  • to kill 2  birds with one stone
  • to move the  goalposts
  • From scratch
  • to narrow sth  down
  • Grin and bear it
  • A change  is as good as a rest
  • too many  cooks  spoil the broil
  • to make a  long story short
  • All  road lead to Rome
  • A snowball effect
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