idioms 2

Almost (but)

All but

Exhausted (all)

All in

However (all)

All the same

In total (all)

All Told

Uncertain (air) (in)

In the air

In the balance

Because of (account)

On account of

Existing (air)

Up in the air

Honest (board) (on)

Above board

On the level

Have a false belief (bark)

Bark up the wrong tree

Full of energy (beans)

Be full of beans

In prison (bars)

Behind bars

A favored person

Blue-eyed boy/ golden boy

Suddenly (blue)

Bolt from the blue

Bored (browned)

Browned off

General speaking (by)

By and large

Someone who very love their parents (block)

Chip off the old block

Very expensive (bomb)

Cost a bomb

Dont wait for somebody (hold)

Dont hold your breath

Die (bucket)

Kick the bucket

Glad that someone leave (back)

See the back of

Deal with something directly (bull)

Take the bull by the horns

Dull Person (wet)

Wet blanket

Likely to happen (cards)

Be On the cards

Make someone angry (blood) (Collar)

Make ones blood boil

Get a bit hot under the collar

Ignore someone (cut)

Cut sb dead

Not be discouraged (chin)

Keep someone chin up

Look unwell (color)

Off colour

Not assume before it comes

Not count one’s chickens before they’re hatched

Inexperienced

In green

End ones’ plan abruptly (goose)

Cook one’s goose

Get a feeling that someone talk about you (ear)

feel one’s ears burning

Agure at the beginning of a relationship (foot)

Get off on the wrong foot

Be able to talk well (gab)

Have the gift of the gab

Inability to speak due to nervousness (frog)

Have a frog in one’s throat

Smth new to me (greek)

It’s all Greek to me

Insist on smth (foot)

Put one foot down

hidden ability (horse)

Dark horse

Very quickly

Before someone can say jack robinson

get a information indirectly (grapevine)

Hear it through/ on the grapvine

Waste time doing useless thing (horse)

Flog a dead horse

In very close contact (glove)

Hand in glove with sb

Have many plans to do (iron)

Have many irons in the fire

Extremely anxious (mouth)

Have one’s heart in one’s mouth

Suffer form the consequences (juice)

Stew in one’s own juice

From the direct source (horse)

Straight from The horse’s mouth

Run away (heel)

Take to one’s heel

Avoid (sand)

Bury one’s head in the sand

Be nervous (kittens)

Have kittens

Sleep soundly (log)

Sleep like a log

The biggest share (lion)

The lion’s share

Everywhere (nook)

Every nook and cranny

Make advantagous (hay)

Make hay while the sun shines

Invalid (null)

Null and void

Nhét chữ

Put word into someone mouth

A difficult face to accept

A bitter pill to swallow

Get dismissed from the job(sack)

Get the sack

Best chance (opportunity)

Golden opportunity

Irrelevant (off)

Off the point

From a situation to a worse one

Out of the frying pan into a fie

Brief but pleasant (short)

Short and sweet

Useless (white)

White elephant

Last option (last)

As a last resort

Be confused (quandary)

Be in a quandary

stuck in a monotonous routine (rut)

In a rut

Settle down (roots)

Put down roots

Think really hard (brain)

Rack one brain

A wild guess (shot)

A long shot

Poor memory ( sieve)

A memory like a sieve

Look exactly the same

A splitting image

Get very wet (skin)

Get soaked to the skin

In bad situations (shave)

Have a close shave

Travel a lot (suitcase)

Live out of a suitcase

On small budget (shoes)

On a shoestring string

Make great effort (socks)

Pull one’s socks up

Suspect something is wrong (rat)

Smell a rat

Not believe in something completely

Take… with a pinch of salt

Nhìn thấy sự thật (two)

Put two and two together

Whatever happens

Through thick and thin

Improve steadily (up)

Be on the up and up

Unfriendly (welcome)

Frosty welcome

Cause trouble (waves)

Make waves