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1. Like the clappers: extremely quickly.

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2. Not to be best pleased: annoyed / upset.

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3. You cannot believe your eyes: you have seen something extremely shocking.
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4. To be seeing things : to imagine that you are seeing something that is not there.
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5. I can tell you: used to emphasize what has just been said.

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6. Sweat it out : to endure a difficult situation until it ends
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7. To have (or get) the wind up: to be nervous or afraid.

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8. To be quick off the mark: quick to take an action.

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9. Your heart goes out to someone: you feel sympathy or pity for someone.

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10. To put something to the back of your mind: to forget about something.
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11. It’s early days: It is too soon to know how a situation will develop.
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12. To pull out all the stops: to do everything you can to achieve something. / to do
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2. A Sales Report:

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1. Input: information as comments or suggestions.
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2. To hit the ground running: to start doing something as actively as possible.

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3. To break all records: How good something in comparison with previous things /To

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be completely better than before./ To have the highest takings ever known.
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4. To feel the pinch: To have financial problems because of having less money than

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you used to have. / To have financial troubles.

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5. Meltdown: A complete collapse.

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6. Gloom and doom: Lacking in any hope for the future. /Too little hope for the future. /
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Extreme hopelessness.
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7. To buck the trend: Not to be affected by the bad tendency./ To go against the bad
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tendency.
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8. To break the mould: To do something completely in a new way.
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9. Not to say: Mainly a contradiction / Used to contradiction.

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10. Not to live up to the promise of something: Not to be as good as something or

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someone seemed like to be./ Not as good as expected.

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11. Food for thought: Something which needs careful thoughts. / Something to think
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about. / Much to mull over.

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12. Learning curve: The continuous process of acquiring knowledge.

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3. To be at death’s door: About to die

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4. To be up and about : Out of bed
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5. In harness : working/ At work.
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6. At the helm: In charge./ Responsible.
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7. Hopping mad: Extremely angry. / In a rage.
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8. If someone is a day: Older than their behaviour.

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9. Mutton dressed as lamb: A style of clothes to be suited a younger one.
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10. To put on your slap: Make-up.
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11. To have a ball: To enjoy yourself very much.

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12. Opening gambit : To open a remark in a discussion.
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4. Health Scares:

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1. To take something with a pinch of salt: Not to believe something completely.
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2. To separate the wheat from the chaff: To distinguish the good from the bad.

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3. Whipping boy: Someone who is punished in the same way for mistakes made by

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someone else.
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4. To keep someone in the dark: To keep something secret from someone.

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5. To take the wraps off something: To stop keeping something secret .

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6. To get your head round something: To succeed in understanding something.

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7. To make matters worse: To make a difficult situation even more difficult.
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8. To take something on board: To listen to or accept something.
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9. To move the goalposts: To change rules after something has already started in
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order to gain some advantage.

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10. To have something sussed: To understand after investigation or careful study.
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11. To avoid something like the plague: To keep away from something.
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12. A no-go area: An area which is dangerous to enter./ Banned area.

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2. By fair means or foul: In any possible way.

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3. To scrimp and save: To be careful how to spend money.

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4. A rainy day: A time of financial difficulties.

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5. To have high hopes of: To be confident about your chances of success.
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6. Not to have the ghost of a chance: To have no possibility of success.
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7. To know the score: To be well aware of the facts.
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8. To put your life in the hands of someone: To trust someone not to hurt you.
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9. For dear life’s sake: The great effort with which someone is doing something.
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10. Against all the odds: In spite of difficulties.
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12. A safe haven: A place where you will feel free from harm.
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6. Miraculous Rescue:

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1. To spread like wildfire: To spread extremely quickly.
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2. Out of the woods: No longer in danger.

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3. Without a scratch: Without being damaged.

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4. Threw caution to the winds: To act in an impulsive way/ To act carelessly.
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5. On automatic pilot: To act without thinking about what you are doing.
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6. In the nick of time: At the last moment.

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7. To go up like a light: To catch fire very quickly.

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8. A blazing inferno: Dangerous fire which is out of control.

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9. To lay your life on the line: To put your life at risk.

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10. To go with the territory: Something which occurs in a particular situation.

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11. All in a day’s work: It is unusual or different.

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12. A death trap: A dangerous place.

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7. Flood Damage:
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2. Heads will roll: Someone will be punished or get into serious trouble.
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3. The whys and wherefores: The details of the background of a situation.

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4. A double whammy: Two bad things happen at the same time.

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5. Business as usual: The usual work will not be interrupted.

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8. The last straw: The last step of a difficult situation.

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9. A categorical denial : How confident someone is about denying something.
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something will not happen.

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11. Be that as it may: Something may be true, but meaninglessly, especially by people

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12. A blessing in disguise: Something which at first seems unfortunate, but turns out

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to become fortunate.

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1. Hobson’s choice: No other choice.
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2. To fight tooth and nail: To try hard to achieve something.

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3. Enough is enough: Something came to an end.

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4. Staring us in the face: Very likely to happen.

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5. It goes against the grain: Against someone’s idea.

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6. The end of the road: The end of something.

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7. In a tight corner: In a difficult situation.

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8. Light at the end of the tunnel: Hope for the future.

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9. The shape of things to come: Showing how things are likely to be or develop in the
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future.

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10. The thin end of the wedge: Something which is not important, but it may be

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important for the beginning of something.

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11. Past its sell-by date: No longer considered useful.

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12. A general exodus: The movement of majority of people from a room or building.
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1. To bury one’s head in the sand: To avoid dealing with problem.

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2. Halcyon days : Happy past days.

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3. To think twice: To consider something very carefully before acting.

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4. Yonks: A very long time.

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something.
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6. The best-laid schemes: Plans which can go wrong.

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9. Let bygones be bygones: To forget about bad things which have happened the past.
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10. See eye to eye: To agree with someone.
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11. Share and share alike: To divide something equally.

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12. Son and heir : Successors.

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2. First and foremost: Most importantly.

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3. Pick and choose: To choose something carefully.

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4. Come rain or shine: Whatever happens.

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5. To give it your all: To do your best/ To do as much effort as possible/ To do
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something as well as you can.

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6. To fight fit: Very well healthy.

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7. In top form: To do your best/ To do as much effort as possible/ To do something as
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8. A couch potato: Someone who spends too much time sitting around.

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9. A word in your ear!: A private remark to someone that you don’t want other people
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10. Team players: A person who works well in a group.
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11. To go from strength to strength: To get better and better.

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12. Head and shoulders above: Very much better than anyone or anything else.
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1. A revolving door: A situation in which people don’t stay very long.

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2. No time at all: Very short time.

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3. To put it in a nutshell: In a few exact words.

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4. A high profile: To get more public attention.

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6. The new broom: To make a lot of changes.

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8. To know where someone stands: To know exactly the nature of your situation.

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9. While the going was good: Conditions are favourable.

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10. Going places: To achieve a great success.
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11. Looking at the big picture: Looking forward to a better situation/ Interest in the
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12. You must be joking!: How ridiculous the speaker considers something.

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1. Years young: A compliment of the old.
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2. A kindred spirit: A person who is too close to another one.

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3. Getting on a bit: getting old
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4. No spring chicken: Someone who is no longer young.
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5. Not as young as you were: To be getting old and not as strong and healthy as you

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6. To make the most of something: To take full advantage of something.

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7. All very well: Apparently satisfactory, but not completely so in fact.

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8. At a rate of knots: Extremely quickly.

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9. In the way: To stop someone from getting on with what they want to do.

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10. Beyond our shelf life: Beyond the stage at which someone or something is useful

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11. An oasis of calm: A peaceful place or a period of time in the middle of something
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noisy

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12. Like the tower of Babel!: Extremely noisy and confused.

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