Idiomatic Expressions

Get a 5.0

Do a slow burn

To be quietly angry

Hit the sack

Go to bed

Pick someone’s brain

To get information from someone, usually by questioning the person carefully and in great detail.

Bite off more than one can chew

To take a task that is way too big

Chew someone out

To scold someone harshly

Dead to the world

Fast asleep

Eat one’s heart out

To suffer silently in a helpless state

Fan the flames

Make a bad situation even worse: say or do something to make someone angrier than they already are.

Fishy

Suspicious

Odd man out

The person who is left out; the one who does not fit in

Once in a blue moon

Very rarely

Poker face

An expressionless face; a face that reveals nothing of one’s feelings

Pop the question

Ask someone to get married

(Into the) Rabbit hole

Mentally go somewhere surreal, enter a chaotic situation; be on a journey that is complicated or confusing.

Rain check

Something that is avoided or procrastinated; to give an assurance of not doing something now but later.

Split hairs

To argue about some small detail that is not really important

Sticky fingers

Keep objects that don’t belong to you; the inclination to steal

Throw someone under the bus

To betray someone for self-benefits; to blame someone; to dissociate oneself from an unfavorable situation

Wet blanket

A person who spoil’s other people’s fun

Wild goose chase

Wasting resources working on something that does not exist or cannot be achieved

Wing it

To improvise

Miss the boat

To miss an opportunity because one is too late or slow

Close call

A narrow escape from disaster

Eye candy

Something attractive or visually appealing but is boring in other ways

Talk turkey

To talk seriously, usually about business