to your heart's content

If you do something to your heart's content, you do

something enjoyable for as long as you want to do it:
You've got a whole week to yourself and you can read to your heart's content.

be up your street
UK US be up your alley

to be the type of thing that you are interested in or that you enjoydoing:
Carpentry isn't really up my street. I'd rather pay someone else to do it.
I have a little job for you which is right (= exactly) up your street.

out of this world

INFORMAL
C2

extremely good:

What a restaurant - the food was out of this world!

make the best of a bad job - definition and synonyms

make the best of a bad job PHRASE at make the best of it
1.

to accept a bad situation and deal with it in the best way that you can
Theyre not going to change their minds, so weve got to make the best of a bad job.

make up
ALSO UK make it up

phrasal verb with make UK /mek/ US /mek/ verb made, made

to forgive someone and be friendly with them again after

an argumentor disagreement:
They kissed and made up, as usual.
UK We often quarrel but we always make it up soon after.

make a clean breast of it

UK

to tell the truth about something:

Julia finally made a clean breast of it and admitted that she had stolen the money.

cross purposesadverb
UK /krs p.p.sz/ US /krs p.p.sz/

at cross purposes

If two or more people are at cross purposes, they do

not understand each other because they are talking about
different subjects without realizing this:
I think we've been talking at cross purposes - I meant next year, not this year.

put your foot in it

to say something
by accident that embarrasses or upsets someone:
UK US put your foot in your mouth

I really put my foot in my mouth I asked her if Jane was her mother, but she said
Jane is her sister.

take the bull by the horns

to do something difficult in a brave and determined way:

Why don't you take the bull by the horns and tell him to leave?

out of hand
out of control:
Things got a little out of hand at the party and three windows were broken.
He went to see his doctor because he felt his drinking was getting out of hand.

flying startnoun

[ C usually singular ]

UK /fla. stt/ US /fla. strt/

to begin something very well, quickly making good progress:

She's got off to a flying start in her new job.

an instance of one competitor in a race starting more quickly than

the others

get off on the right/wrong foot

C2

to make a successful/unsuccessful start in something

(get off on the right foot

ALSO start off on the right foot

to make a successful start:

He really got off on the right foot with my mother.

lose your head

INFORMAL

C1

to lose control and not act in a calm way:

He usually stays quite calm in meetings but this time he just lost his head.

keep your head above water

to just be able to manage, especially when you have financial
difficulties:
C2

The business is in trouble, but we are just about keeping our heads above water.

keep your head

ALSO keep a cool head
C2

to stay calm despite great difficulties:

She kept her head under pressure and went on to win the race.

be/come up against a brick wall

to be unable to make more progress with a plan or discussion because
someone is stopping you

get cold feet

to suddenly become too frightened to do something you had planned
to do, especially something important such as getting married

take sth to heart

If you take criticism or advice to heart, you think about it seriously,
often because it upsets you:
C2

Don't take it to heart - he was only joking about your hair.